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Tom Tangney
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‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’ could afford to lighten up
Tom Tangney | May 23, 2014 8:39 amHollywood's given us seven X-Men movies since the year 2000, and when that many films have been made in that short a time with the… -
‘Godzilla’ gets a state-of-the-art update while staying true to its low budget roots
Tom Tangney | May 17, 2014 2:56 pmWhat do you want in a creature feature? No, really. I'm asking. What do you want to see in a creature feature? Bad ass monsters,… -
Live in studio: Meet the star of ‘Searching for Sugarman’
Tom Tangney | May 14, 2014 8:23 amRodriguez performs "Inner City Blues" off of his first (1969/70) album live in the 97 . 3 KIRO FM studio for Tom Tangney . A… -
‘Fading Gigolo’ has more humanity than a raucous sex comedy
Tom Tangney | May 9, 2014 7:50 amThe premise of "Fading Gigolo" makes it sound like a potentially raucous sex comedy. -
Carefree attitude not an advantage of ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’
Tom Tangney | May 2, 2014 8:22 amEverything but the kitchen sink. That best about sums up "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" except that it also throws in the kitchen sink! -
‘Field of Dreams’ still makes grown men cry
Alyssa Kleven | April 25, 2014 12:30 pmBall players and fans will meet in an Iowa cornfield this summer to commemorate the 25th anniversary of a film that's guaranteed to make grown… -
Find any other movie to watch than ‘The Other Woman’
Tom Tangney | April 25, 2014 8:51 am"The Other Woman" stars Cameron Diaz and Leslie Mann and at its best, it's a female empowerment movie. Unfortunately, it's at its worst most of… -
‘Transcendence’ wants to be profound but ends up convoluted
April 18, 2014 8:30 am“Transcendence” is the ambitious new Johnny Depp movie about the hopes and fears surrounding artificial intelligence (A.I.) Set in the near future, this sci-fi film… -
‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ may be one of Marvel’s best movies yet
Tom Tangney | April 4, 2014 8:07 amIf you go around with a name like Captain America, it helps if the world is a simple place. Coming of age during World War… -
‘Noah’ has a hard time staying afloat
Tom Tangney | March 28, 2014 1:19 pm"Noah" is an ambitious but unwieldy Biblical epic that is a mishmash of special effects and psychodrama, of hard-scrabble realism and worlds of fantasy, of…