The Campaign review
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The Campaign review

Remember a scant 12 years ago when, if you wanted to see election stupidity, you likely had to watch a comedy movie? A movie like the subject of this week’s review, “The Campaign”, where you see all kinds of crazy hi-jinks. Of course, most of the zany stuff you see in this movie seems quaint compared to what you see in our elections nowadays. This year’s presidential election is why I’m reviewing this Will Ferrell/Zach Galifianakis political comedy where Ferrell plays Cam Brady and Galifinakis plays Marty Huggins. They’re both running for a congressional seat and Marty, the newcomer to the political game, finds out how sick and depraved running for office actually is. Marty isn’t what you’d call your typical steak and eggs, iron-jawed, hard hat-wearing, sports-lovin’, rugged man’s man. The donors pretty much running his campaign, the Motch Brothers played by John Lithgow and Dan Aykroyd, send their man to “man” Marty up. Cam is the corrupt veteran congressman and he’s bound and determined to make Marty sorry he even thought about running. That just fires Marty up even more to beat Cam but will it change him for the worse? Is it worth finding out? Check out this episode to find out. “The Campaign” also stars Jason Sudeikis, Dylan McDermott, Katherine LaNasa, Sarah Baker, Brian Cox, Karen Maruyama, Grant Goodman, Kya Haywood, Randal D. Cunningham, Madison Wolfe, Thomas Middleditch, Josh Lawson, Heather Lawless and Jack McBrayer. 

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Barbie review
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Barbie review

Movie theaters are going pink with the release of Barbie from director Greta Gerwig. Gerwig puts her different spin on this iconic doll beloved by girls all around the world for decades. Margot Robbie stars as the stereotypical Barbie with Ryan Gosling as Ken. Barbie is living the perfect life in Barbie Land with the other Barbies and all the Kens. Suddenly she starts having thoughts that perfectly happy Barbie shouldn’t be having and suddenly develops cellulite and flat feet! She finds out she needs to go to the real world to fix all this and that’s where Barbie’s adventure begins. This also stars America Ferrera, Simu Liu, Michael Cera, Will Ferrell, Issa Rae, Kate McKinnon, Emma Mackey, Alexandra Shipp, Hari Nef, Sharon Rooney, Dua Lipa, Ariana Greenblatt, John Cena, Ana Cruz Kayne, Nicola Coughlan, Emerald Fennell, Kingsley Ben-Adir. Should you leave your Barbie dreamhouse to check this out at theaters? Check out this spoiler-free review to find out!

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