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Film reviews: THE BEAST, THE LAKE, ANGEL AND THE BADMAN
The President, an Old West outlaw and our own Great Salt Lake face moments of truth in new movies.
The Beast Aura Entertainment The Beast *** “If you don’t mind me saying, sir,” Secret Service Agent Taft (Joel Kinnaman) says to the President of the United States, “‘motherfucker’ … sounds so good when you say it”—and the fact that POTUS is played by Samuel L.
Jackson might suggest a jokey recognition of the actor’s stereotypical on-screen persona. But this guns-blazing action yarn might also give Jackson one of his meatiest roles in quite some time.
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