Tag: film
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Honey Don’t!
For some reason The Coen Brothers are still split up, so here’s another attempt for Ethan with Honey Don’t! I’ve got to get the most important part of this movie out of the way first. HOLY $!&# is this movie sexual. I just watched Basic Instinct hours before seeing this…
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The Map That Leads to You
A streaming movie, actors and a director I’ve never heard of, plus a genre that typically isn’t my speed. This combination would usually add up to something I wouldn’t be a fan of, but I went in with an open mind and left pleasantly surprised. The Map That Leads to…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Den of Thieves 2: Pantera
Heist movies should have interesting and complex characters, scene stealing locations, and entertaining heist related moments sprinkled throughout. This instead has too many characters doing almost nothing heist related while switching locations dozens of times for no apparent reason. If you were also impressed with nothing of importance happening for…
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