Category: Movie Review
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Night Always Comes
First things first, I’ll never relate to anything more than what Vanessa Kirby chooses to go through to protect Zach Gottsagen. He deserves peace and the world. After (what I thought was one of the better thrillers of 2023) Sharper, director Benjamin Caron is back with Night Always Comes. A…
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Highest 2 Lowest
So Spike Lee made another adaptation of a classic in Asian Cinema… This time around we have a loose adaptation of Kurosawa’s High and Low. I say loose but the only thing loose about it is the setting. It still involves a kidnapping with ransom and the moral dilemma of…
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Nobody 2
When you have a cast with the likes of Christopher Lloyd, Bob Odenkirk, Connie Nielson, RZA, Colin Hanks, Sharon Stone, Michael Ironside and some of the creative minds behind the John Wick universe, you’d think we would be in for a super fun action flick. Instead, it feels like the…
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Freakier Friday
Freakier Friday Welcome back to the world of the most iconic body swap franchise. Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan’s off the charts chemistry is immediately felt and it’s like they never stopped working together. It’s been 20-plus years for the long awaited followup, and we’ve added a few more…
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The Pickup
Look at Eddie and Pete’s expressions in the photo above, that is what I looked like watching the entirety of this movie. Knowing this is from the guy (Tim Story) that directed Ride Along 2, I shouldn’t have had super high expectations, but I was still underwhelmed. A veteran armored…
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She Rides Shotgun
2025 finally has its small time, gritty crime thriller. Taron Egerton and Ana Sophia Heger play a father-daughter role that has been missing after Leave No Trace. She Rides Shotgun jumps right into the aftermath of a double murder, where Nathan (Egerton) is the culprit from many respects, and he…
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The Fantastic Four: First Steps
One small step for Marvel, one decent leap for The Fantastic Four. It’s getting harder to talk about middle of the road Marvel movies because, in a vacuum, this movie is entertaining from the jump. Watching these characters, in their beautiful, blue uniforms, was such a delight. It made me…
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Oh, Hi!
Oh, Hi! Sophie Brook’s new film is a smart romantic comedy that will seep into your brain and keep you guessing throughout. Iris (Molly Gordon) and Isaac (Logan Lerman) have a refreshing chemistry that kicks you right into gear with their relationship. Starting off as a weekend getaway movie, you…
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Jurassic World: Rebirth
Coming off the stink that was Jurassic World: Dominion, I wasn’t excited about the 7th film in this franchise. Adding Scarlett Johannson, Mahershala Ali, and Johnathan Bailey to the mix did help drag me back into the theater for this one though. There’s a lot of emotion behind the trio’s…
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M3GAN 2.0
The bitch is back, but maybe she should have stayed dead. A self aware sequel to the 2023 “hit” that attempts to bring us to the likes of T2 but fails by making things overly complicated. This franchise has a campiness that tends to work best when it follows the…
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28 Years Later
The world has waited a long time to see what has changed in the world of 28-Time Frame-Later, but was it worth the wait? Split into two halves, it’s almost like Garland and Boyle directed one each. Without a cohesive vision, I think it’s fair to say their chemistry has…
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F1: The Movie
An F1 movie produced by Lewis Hamilton, Jerry Bruckheimer, Joseph Kosinski, and Brad Pitt should have the combined strength to make an all-time race movie, but does it? Kosinski follows up the success of Top Gun: Maverick with another A-list actor putting his life on the line in a high…
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Materialists
Celine Song follows up her 2022 feature, Past Lives, with another three piece of on screen lovers. This time we have Dakota Johnson as a matchmaker (made up job?) caught between the choices of her past (Chris Evans) and her future (Pedro Pascal). At the heart of this movie, we…
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Karate Kids: Legends
The amount you enjoy this movie will probably rely on how deep you are into the lore of this world, and I’ve only seen the original film. Karate Kid: Legends does one thing very well, and that’s combine the characters from all of its sources and make them interact in…
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Jane Austen Wrecked My Life
Jane Austen Wrecked My Life is very much in a meta universe of its own. In fact, the screening I attended was mainly filled with women from the Jane Austen Society of North America – Minnesota. So, this movie and its audience really knows how to immerse you in the…
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Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
If this is the end, I’m satisfied. Tom Cruise brings us to the emotional conclusion of a three-decade long story with a spectacle that implores audiences to see it in the largest of scales. Cruise’s commitment to entertaining the masses has reached its absolute peak and if you thought you…
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Cinema Catch-up Corner May 2025
Havoc Garteh Evans continues to show he’s one of the best at putting action onto the (big?) screen. The brilliance of the long take is shown here in a bloody way. Tom Hardy didn’t even need to carry this because everyone involved is killing it. There is way too much…
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Thunderbolts*
A much different approach to the Marvel genre (yes, it’s a genre now) than I could have ever expected. Thunderbolts is a team up movie most parallel to The Suicide Squad, but feels more like it should have been called “The Suicidal Squad”. There is fun to be had within…
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On Swift Horses
Daisy Edgar-Jones, Jacob Elordi, Will Poulter, Diego Calva, & Sasha Calle; all names that should be gracing the silver screen for years to come. With a cast of hot stars like this, you’d think you’d have an indie hit on your hands. It’s a shame that this wasn’t more interesting.…
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Sinners
Sinners will satisfy fans of any genre. Ryan Coogler (Creed) really hasn’t missed yet, and he hits it out of the park here in a way never seen before. He’s a master storyteller and weaves this one around making you feel like you’re watching a superhero film, a western, a…
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Warfare
Lock in for the most intense and personal war film you’ll ever experience. Half told from the memories of veteran Ray Mendoza and the other through the lens of Alex Garland (Civil War), Warefare invades your personal space. The sets and props couldn’t have been more perfect, told with its…
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Death of a Unicorn
With deadly unicorns and a stacked cast, you expect a lot of great performances and scary fun. You get both, but you also get a lot of what you didn’t want. Death of a Unicorn has you feeling like you’re watching Alien within the plot of Lost World: Jurassic Park.…
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Black Bag
“It’s boring how much you think about money” Black Bag is a spy thriller, a romance, and a whodunit. Steven Soderbergh is a master of at least trying different genres for his features, but he succeeds here at mixing quite a few in one. George (Michael Fassbender) and Kathryn (Cate…
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On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
Susan Chardy stars in a story about family and some deeper things. One day she finds her uncle dead in the street, and that’s where things only begin to unravel. This story dives deep into family dynamics, cultural impacts, and the way it makes you “forget” things- or pretend that…
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Novocaine
Novocaine is a movie with all the ingredients, with one or two being a little overused. Nate (Jack Quaid) is your normal, everyday assistant manager at a bank, except he can’t feel pain. Just a day after he finally goes on a date with his crush (Amber Midthunder), she gets…
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