July 3, 2025

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Movie: Get Hard

Rina Risper06 mins

  Studio:  Warner Bros. Pictures (1 hr. 40 min.)

Plot:  When a millionaire is nailed for fraud and bound for San Quentin, he turns to his car detailer to help him prepare for the jail stint.
Cast: Kevin Hart, Will Ferrell, T.I.  “Tip” Harris, Alison Brie, Craig T. Nelson and Edwina Findley
Rating:     R
Bottom Line:     ***
 

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Blackflix.com: Movie: Focus

Rina Risper04 mins

 Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures (1 hr. 45 min.)

Plot:    A con man takes on an inexperienced apprentice.
Cast:   Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Rodrigo Santoro, Adrian Martinez
Rating:     R
Bottom Line:     **

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Movie: Kingsman: The Secret Service

Rina Risper03 mins

  Studio:     20th Century Fox (2 hr. 9 min.)

Plot:     A spy organization recruits an unrefined, but promising street kid into the agency’s ultra-competitive training program just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius.
Cast:     Colin Firth, Taron Egerton, Samuel L. Jackson, Mark Strong, Sofia Boutella, Michael Caine, Mark Hamill
Rating:     R
Bottom Line:     ***
 

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Movie: Black or White

Rina Risper03 mins

 Studio:     Relativity Media (2 hr. 1 min.)

Plot:      A grieving widower is drawn into a custody battle over his granddaughter, whom he helped raise her entire life.

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Movie: Selma

Rina Risper04 mins

  Studio:     Paramount (2 hr. 7 min.)

Plot:     A chronicle of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala. in 1965.

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Movie: Into The Woods

Rina Risper04 mins

 

Studio:     Disney (2 hr. 5 min.)
Plot:     A modern twist on several Brothers Grimm fairy tales tied together by an original story involving a baker and his wife.
Cast:     Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, Chris Pine, Johnny Deep, Jake Gyllenhaal, Christine Baranski
Rating:     R
Bottom Line:  *
 

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Wolfgang Puck: Enjoy a golden loaf of homemade bread on your holiday table

Rina Risper010 mins

 

 A close cousin of French brioche and Jewish challah, my recipe is easier than it looks to make!.
Photo by Fotalia

 

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Movie: Top Five

Rina Risper04 mins

  Studio:  Paramount (1 hr. 42 min.)

Plot:  A comedian tries to make it as a serious actor when his reality-TV star fiancée talks him into broadcasting their wedding on her TV show.
Cast:     Chris Rock, Rosario Dawson, Gabrielle Union, Kevin Hart, Cedric the Entertainer, Tracy Morgan
Rating:     R
Bottom Line:     ****

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Kiplinger on Travel: 26 secrets to save on travel

Rina Risper022 mins

 

By Stacy Rapacon and Susannah Snider,Kiplinger

 
With airfares to Europe and Asia sky-high and high-seas breakdowns roiling the cruise industry, leisure travelers have plenty of reasons to put vacation plans on hold.

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