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A BIG BOLD BEAUTIFUL JOURNEY MOVIE REVIEW Welcome to yet another review where Chris is absolutely correct in his opinion and Wright is not (editor: I think you got that backwards). A Big Bold Beautiful Journey is a trip into magical realism on a path well, and much better, trod by films such as Eternal […]

NOBODY 2 MOVIE REVIEW Just give us the Bob Odenkirk & David Cross action team-up already! The team that brought you John Wick and The Fall Guy are back with their follow up to their hit actioner Nobody starring Bob Odenkirk. After the events of the first film, Hutch (Odenkirk) constantly finds himself on high […]

BALLERINA MOVIE REVIEW Who knew with the kick-ass but (compared to what was to come) low-key John Wick releasing in 2014 that 11 years later it would be a 4-movie, 1-spinoff, 1 tv series franchise with more obviously yet to come? The first spin-off is Ballerina, taking place between the films John Wick 3 and […]

LAST BREATH MOVIE REVIEW In 2012, a diving accident during repairs of oil lines in the North Sea led to a daring rescue of a trapped diver without heat, light, or air. In 2019 director Alex Parkinson released a documentary about the incident. In 2022, he got Woody Harrelson, Simu Liu, and Finn Cole to […]

KINDS OF KINDNESS MOVIE REVIEW Director/writer Yorgos Lanthimos definitely veered away from his usual fare with his recent and multi-award winning films The Favorite and Poor Things. But his latest, a triptych anthology Kinds of Kindness, returns to the dark absurdism of films like The Lobster and The Killing of a Sacred Deer. His cast […]

ARGYLLE MOVIE REVIEW From director Matthew Vaughn (The Kingsmen movies) and writer Jason Fuchs (Pan, Wonder Woman) and based on a book that probably doesn’t exist by a fictional person who has the name of the lead character of the film and is assuredly not secretly Taylor Swift, the spy spoof Argylle is here. Elly […]

FAST X MOVIE REVIEW The crew revs up their reviewing engines to take on the tenth (well, eleventh if you count Hobbs & Shaw) installment in the Fast and the Furious franchise. This one is splitting the tenth film into three installments so get ready for cliffhangers. But it’s still well over two hours of […]

80 FOR BRADY MOVIE REVIEW Ah, 2017. Such a different time. A world before an ongoing pandemic, a world of Spider-man Homecoming and Beyonce pregnant with twins. A time when four elderly best friends and massive fans of the New England Patriots, particularly the team’s star quarterback Tom Brady, decided to celebrate the Patriots’ victory […]

GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO MOVIE REVIEW Guillermo is having a good year and clearly a productive relationship right out of the starting gate with Netflix. First we get his superlative Cabinet of Curiosities, and now this (some would say) shoo-in for Best Animated Feature. This stop-motion animated musical fantasy takes a grimmer look than Disney […]

SLUMBERLAND MOVIE REVIEW Little Nemo in Slumberland is the groundbreaking comic strip from innovative cartoonist and animator Winsor McCay. Ever since it first appeared in 1905, the strip has been adapted multiple times for stage and screen, with varying results. Slumberland has the budget and digital tools to bring McCay’s eye-popping world to life in a way […]

AMSTERDAM MOVIE REVIEW Based (loosely, very loosely) on the Business Plot of 1933, David O. Russell’s Amsterdam follows three old friends who come back together through complicated plot devices to clear the names of two of them for a murder they didn’t commit, and figure out who killed someone and why. That’s the most basic […]

BLONDE MOVIE REVIEW We are heading into award season and you know what that means… A sensationalized film about a woman of the people thrust into the spotlight with beauty grace and golden hair that charmed the masses, abused and struck down by the very institutions that built her stage and worshiped her ivory mask […]

SHE WILL MOVIE REVIEW Charlotte Colbert (Co-Writer and Director) says that her film, She Will, explores how trauma can blur reality and time, but also how nature holds so much solace. She Will is a story about Veronica, an aging actress who is headed to a secluded retreat, post surgery, to find some healing. Accompanying […]

TOP GUN: MAVERICK MOVIE REVIEW Tom Cruise is back as Maverick, the unconventional and appropriately named pilot from 1986’s smash-hit Top Gun. Only now, it’s 30 something years later, he’s still a Captain and flying whenever he can, and for every person in his life that thinks he’s the greatest, there’s someone else who just […]