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MAY DECEMBER MOVIE REVIEW Director Todd Haynes (Far From Heaven, Velvet Goldmine) has finally taken the plunge into streaming services, with the silver screen replaced by the black mirror as Netflix presents May December. Elizabeth (Natalie Portman) is a famous procedural actor on a long running CSI-like show who’s just been cast in a scandalous […]

PERSUASION MOVIE REVIEW For an author who only ever wrote six novels, Jane Austen’s work has seen a LOT of adaptations. Some have been award winning films, like the 2005 Pride & Prejudice or 1995 Oscar winning Sense & Sensibility, while others have been modern reimaginings, like Clueless or Bridget Jones’ Diary. Time and again, […]

THE SUMMONED MOVIE REVIEW Hello there OOU members, and welcome to couples therapy. It doesn’t matter if you have any conflicts or issues you need to work through, really you’re here for “self discovery.” What you’ll discover is that this movie is basically similarly conceptual of every horror movie from the past 5 years, rolled […]

GONE IN THE NIGHT Gone in the Night is the tale of Kath (Winona Ryder) and her younger, less mature boyfriend Max (John Gallagher, Jr.). To salvage their strained relationship, the couple decides to spend a weekend in a remote cabin in the woods. If movies have taught us anything, it’s that nothing good ever […]

WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING MOVIE REVIEW Based on Delia Owens’ bestselling novel of the same name, Where The Crawdads Sing tells the story of Kya, an abandoned child living alone in the marshes of North Carolina during the 1960s. Despite being poor, uneducated, and ostracized by the community, Kya (Daisy Edgar Jones) grows up to […]

BEAUTY MOVIE REVIEW One of the most important and exciting directors in the indie film world, Andrew Dosunmu, teams up with screenwriter Lena Waithe for Beauty, the story of a promising young songstress on the brink of fame and success that’s totally not based on any famous singer whatsoever. I mean sure, throughout the course […]

SPIDERHEAD MOVIE REVIEW With the combined efforts of Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, the screenwriters of the Deadpool films, and Joseph Kosinski, the director of Top Gun Maverick, you could make assumptions about the sort of movie you’re going to get. Action, satire, dark comedy all smashed together into some fantastic new flick. And with […]