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BAD BOYS: RIDE OR DIE MOVIE REVIEW The bad boys return for this fourth movie (shouldn’t they have saved “for life” for this one) from the same director/writers as the previous entry. This time, Mike (Will Smith) is tying the knot with the beautiful Christine (Melanie Liburd) and it’s a lovely wedding except that Marcus […]

NIGHT SWIM MOVIE REVIEW Ray Waller (Wyatt Russell) is a former pro baseball player who has been forced to retire because of illness. His wife Eve (Kerry Condon) isn’t completely upset because they’ve always been forced to move a lot because of his career and now they can settle down and grow roots. Finding a […]

MAESTRO MOVIE REVIEW Bradley Cooper is back behind and in front of the lens with his 2nd feature film with Maestro. Maestro tells the story of conductor/composer Leonard Bernstein’s rise as one of the most prominent conductors in the world while it chronicles his lifelong relationship with actress Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein. The film beautifully […]

DUMB MONEY MOVIE REVIEW Nothing like seeing the little guy take on the big guys and land some punches. In this case, a small investor vs Wall Street in the true story (from, like, two years ago) where a social media influencer nicknamed Roaring Kitty (Paul Dano) started getting frustrated with the big money firms […]

SANCTUARY MOVIE REVIEW Christopher Abbott and Margaret Qualley star in the new film, Sanctuary, directed by Zachary Wigon following the director’s 2014 romantic drama The Heart Machine. Abbott plays Hal, the next young CEO getting ready to take over his late father’s hotel empire while Qualley plays Rebecca, Hal’s dominatrix who has been preparing him […]

SCREAM VI MOVIE REVIEW Who would have thought that the comedy-slasher that introduced most folks to meta-horror in 1996 would still be going strong all these years later? Sure, there have been missteps along the way (I’m looking at you, Scream 3) but largely the series has found the right notes to adapt with the […]

CREED III MOVIE REVIEW Hard to believe that there are now actually nine films in the Rocky film franchise, even if Creed III counts as the first one that doesn’t actually have the character in the film (he is mentioned once). But Michael B. Jordan has decidedly made the boxing series his own with his […]

KNOCK AT THE CABIN MOVIE REVIEW Are you ready for a new M. Night film? After Old I still can’t believe people give him the benefit of the doubt anymore, but here we are. And he’s scored a pretty big horror property, the adaptation of horror novelist Paul Tremblay’s The Cabin at the End of […]

THE FABELMANS MOVIE REVIEW It seems de rigueur for older directors to eventually come out with a tale about the bucolic days of their youth and their experiences that led to them being interested in film. Steven Spielberg making one (semi-autobiographical sure, but come on) is going to stir up interest. The Fabelmans focuses on […]

BARBARIAN MOVIE REVIEW STOP! Our critics want you to know that you should stop reading anything at all about this film, and just go see it. Assuming you like really good horror movies. You can come back and listen to this really fun review with Chris, Wright, and Alan afterwards. Because although we start off […]

THE FORGIVEN MOVIE REVIEW A wealthy collection of bored elites gather out in the Moroccan desert for a party thrown by a snarky couple (Matt Smith and Caleb Landry Jones) but there’s a problem. One couple (Ralph Fiennes and Jessica Chastain) while on their way to the location accidentally hit a local boy on the […]