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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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The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie
When Space Jam and a few episodes of Baby Looney Tunes is my only real knowledge of this universe, it’ll be tough to critique. But I can do my best, as it is just an animated movie. The Day the Earth Blew up strangely chooses to include only two of…
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Last Breath
Welcome to the world of underwater manual labor. It’s a premise that deserves a deeper look into what dangers this job holds, oh wait… they’ve already made a documentary about this exact situation and given it the same title? Last Breath has trouble keeping its head above water for many…
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The Monkey
An adaptation of a short story by Stephen King that becomes a horror comedy on the big screen sounds like it should be great, but a lot of those components do not mesh well. Your favorite Divergent star, Theo James, stars as twins set out to stop the mysterious monkey…
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The Gorge
The Gorge is a new action, romance, sci-fi, and drama mash-up that is a pretty enjoyable surprise. Anya Taylor-Joy and Miles Teller are hired guns on opposite sides of a gorge in the earth. With the terms being to stop whatever comes and don’t communicate with the person on the…
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Captain America: Brave New World
Anthony Mackie finally gets his chance to be at the front of an MCU film, as Captain America, with wings. I’m at a point where it’s either been too long since I’ve seen some of these characters, or their importance is no longer a factor. If you haven’t caught up…
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Paddington in Peru
Paddington in Peru is here to end the trilogy. The third film in this franchise is missing a lot, most notably Sally Hawkins. It removes itself and the bear from London, which was a major part of the charm to the first two. To no fault of their own, the…
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Love Hurts
A John Wick copycat set on Valentine’s Day quite possibly just for the open release date. Ke Huy Quan finally gets a chance to shine as the lead in a movie, but his mannerisms still feel like they’re meant for a side role. Just like Nobody, Quan isn’t supposed to…
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Companion
Companion fails to deliver anything of excitement or surprise. Going in with the knowledge of what is really going on makes all the little hints at it, down right bad. Characters were all ones we’ve seen before and situations that were apparently meant to be shocking, were pretty tame. Nothing…
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Heart Eyes
Meet cute, no, meat cut.A new slasher movie has arrived. It’s been a long time since we’ve had a movie like Scream, but Heart Eyes mostly fills that void. It’s set on Valentine’s Day as the killer HEK wreaks havoc on Seattle’s couples. I would say 50% of this film…
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Flight Risk
“Ya’ll need a good movie?” Keep looking. Flight Risk pairs two all time great assholes, Mark Wahlberg and Mel Gibson, together for a movie that takes all the little talent they had left and shoves it into the deepest hole. I will start by saying Wahlberg IS the best part…
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Presence
If you go into Presence thinking it’s going to be the same old horror movie, you’d be wrong. It still starts out with a family moving into a new house where the family slowly realizes something sinister might also be there, but there’s so much more to it than that. …
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The Brutalist
The Brutalist is a film that has so much to unpack. Set mainly in what feels like a counterfeit Pennsylvania, an extraordinary architect Laszlo Toh (Adrian Brody) makes his way from war ridden Europe to start a better life. It starts off feeling huge, because I’m sure this was a…
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Wolf Man
Are Werewolves the same as the Wolf Man seen in this movie? I genuinely don’t know, and this movie doesn’t really help get me any closer to the answer. Leigh Whannell’s take on the wolf man is similar to The Fly. It’s a slow burn that focuses on relationships and…
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