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IS THIS THING ON? MOVIE REVIEW Comedy can be good for a lot of things but personal healing is not one you hear as much about. Writer/Director Bradley Cooper offers this year in an unusually low-key release his take on the subject, Is This Thing On? Loosely inspired by the life of British comedian John […]

THE RUNNING MAN MOVIE REVIEW The Stephen King adaptations won’t stop coming of late and we’ve gotten some pretty good ones like The Life of Chuck and The Long Walk. Now, Paramount is going back to the well with The Running Man, which had a somewhat successful 1987 adaptation as an Schwarzenegger film. Problem with […]

SORRY, BABY MOVIE REVIEW Most films that deal with overcoming trauma do it either as it being represented as a growing black gulf of evil (see at least half the horror films made in the last 5-10 years), or with a good deal of saccharine. The debut film from writer/director/star Eva Victor is something new. […]

THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME MOVIE REVIEW The thing about Wes Anderson films is, you’re either here for all of them, no matter what, or maybe just a few (probably early ones). His 2025 entry, The Phoenician Scheme, features (as usual) a metric ton of actors, many of them legendary. But the story tightly focuses on only […]

THE BALLAD OF WALLACE ISLAND MOVIE REVIEW Imagine you had more money than you knew what to do with that came upon you like unexpected manna from heaven. After you had traveled the world, bought your perfect house on your perfect island, what then? If you’re Charles (Tim Key) you make an offer to your […]

BLACK BAG MOVIE REVIEW Who knew after Steven Soderbergh’s retirement back in 2017 that he would ultimately make another fifteen feature films? We all did. Now with his 40th film, Black Bag is a return to sexy form for Soderbergh with an all star cast. Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett play husband & wife spies […]

NOVOCAINE MOVIE REVIEW Full disclosure: This was our first experience seeing a film in 4DX, which are, as Beau puts it, massage chairs that kick the crap out of you. Some of us loved the experience. Some of us had to gag a few times. But either way, it definitely affected our experience of watching […]

MICKEY 17 MOVIE REVIEW A new science fiction dystopian satire with Robert Pattinson playing dual roles and with Mark Ruffalo and Toni Collette as exaggeratedly evil bad guys is alone enough to sell one on being excited for the new film Mickey 17. When you see it’s the latest film by the legendary four-time Oscar […]

MEMOIR OF A SNAIL MOVIE REVIEW There are some filmmakers out there that appear to have an agenda to make the audience feel utter despair and sadness. Much like his previous film Mary & Max, Adam Elliot’s newest picture, Memoir of a Snail, drives home how truly terrible it can be to just exist in […]

Folie à Deux Movie Review The Clown Prince of Crime has taken on Batman, the Justice League, and the Gotham Police time and time again, but his newest foe…musicals? Joaquin Phoenix is back in his Oscar winning performance as Arthur Fleck in Joker: Folie a Deux. Todd Phillips’ approach to the 2019 film was an […]

LOVE LIES BLEEDING MOVIE REVIEW Rose Glass, the director of the hit psychological horror film Saint Maud, has turned her gaze to film noir, albeit in a tangentially Cronenbergian fashion, with her second film Love Lies Bleeding, and trust us, this is no sophomore slump. Set in 1989, a gym manager named Lou (Kristen Stewart) […]

BOTTOMS MOVIE REVIEW From the writer and the director of the criminally underseen Shiva Baby comes this new high school raunchy comedy, Bottoms. PJ (Rachel Sennott) and Josie (Ayo Edebiri) are best friends, gay, and pretty much on the bottom rung of popularity at their school. And at their school, it is ALL about football. […]

I’M A VIRGO SERIES REVIEW Writer, director, musician, and activist Boots Riley who directed the sleeper hit Sorry to Bother You is back with an Amazon Prime mini series titled I’m a Virgo. A virgo is an individual born under the sixth sign of the zodiac, traditionally late August, representing the maiden or goddess associated […]

NIMONA MOVIE REVIEW Whimsical magic and future tech collide in Netflix’s Nimona, based on the Eisner winning webcomic by ND Stevenson. In a futuristic yet medieval world, there is a castle that thrives on electricity and the fear-mongering state run media in a kingdom physically and figuratively surrounded by walls. Ballister Boldheart (Riz Ahmed) is […]

ELEMENTAL MOVIE REVIEW Disney/Pixar’s latest animated feature is Elemental, the story of a world populated by anthropomorphized elemental beings, either Fire, Earth, Water, or Air. The film follows the Lumen family, immigrants to Element City where fire beings are rare (understandably because of their nature to set fire to everything around them). Raising a family, […]

WHITE NOISE MOVIE REVIEW Ever since it was published in 1985, filmmakers have attempted to adapt White Noise, a benchmark in postmodernist literature from acclaimed novelist, Don DeLillo. Despite the book’s reputation for being unfilmable, Netflix gave writer/director Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale, Marriage Story) the greenlight to try, as well as a […]

GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY MOVIE REVIEW We do declare there is a mystery afoot! Daniel Craig is back as Benoit Blanc in Rian Johnson’s follow up to Knives Out, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. Blanc is in search of a new case that will breathe life back into his detective skills. Luckily, […]

ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT MOVIE REVIEW Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front is one of the greatest war novels ever written. It’s the story of teenager Paul Baümer who gladly enlists in the German army, and goes to war full of patriotic fervor, and youthful ideals. Those naïve feelings are […]

SHE-HULK: ATTORNEY AT LAW SERIES REVIEW After a freak accident, attorney Jennifer Walters (Tatiana Maslany) is contaminated by her cousin’s blood which contains lethal levels of gamma radiation. Ordinarily, that would mean death, but when your genetic cousin is Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo), the Incredible Hulk himself, that means you get Hulk powers, too. Unfortunately […]

MOON KNIGHT SERIES REVIEW In the latest Disney Plus/Marvel Cinematic Universe show, the action moves to first London and then Egypt. New York’s just got too damn many superheroes in it. Oscar Isaac plays Steven Grant, a man with sleep issues, lots of knowledge of Egyptian lore, but not much self-confidence. He works in the […]

THE NORTHMAN MOVIE REVIEW The director of the highly lauded The Witch and The Lighthouse teams up with an insanely buff Alexander Skarsgård to tell the tale of Amleth, who is the titular Northman. As a child he watches his father being murdered at the hands of his uncle. He is believed dead but manages […]