Category: Reviews
This New Documentary Is a Dark Look at Fame, Fandom, and the Career of Eminem
This New Documentary Is a Dark Look at Fame, Fandom, and the Career of Eminem

Fandom is a tale as old as time. For as long as there have been artists, creatives and leaders of any sort, there have been people who admired them and looked to them for guidance on how to live their…

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Zach Creeger Drops Mass Destruction Bombs Of Creepy Terror In Spine-Chilling New Horror
Zach Creeger Drops Mass Destruction Bombs Of Creepy Terror In Spine-Chilling New Horror

Electric, terrifying and hypnotically creepy af, writer/director Zach Creeger’s latest psychological horror, “Weapons,” dips its toe into the unknowable on many levels. Who are your neighbors? Who are the people in your community? And how can you properly articulate the…

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Buckley’s Life Is Put On Display, Only For The Documentary To Fail To Capture Him
Buckley’s Life Is Put On Display, Only For The Documentary To Fail To Capture Him

It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley never lets us forget that the man, the myth, and the subject of this documentary, Jeff Buckley, was an unknowable enigma. The feature-length exploration of his too-short life ultimately fails to understand him, despite its…

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Conrad Is Suffering, but I’m Having the Time of My Life
Conrad Is Suffering, but I’m Having the Time of My Life

Editor's Note: The following contains spoilers for The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 3 Episode 5.I'll be honest: I didn't really get into the second season of The Summer I Turned Pretty until everybody got to Cousins Beach and the…

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This Surreal Animated Movie With Some of Today’s Funniest People Is Unlike Anything You’ll See This Year
This Surreal Animated Movie With Some of Today’s Funniest People Is Unlike Anything You’ll See This Year

Boys Go to Jupiter, the feature debut of writer/director/producer/composer Julian Glander, finds beauty in mundanity. Set in suburban Florida between Christmas and New Year’s Eve, this strange but lovely film is unlike any animated feature you’ll see this year. This…

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Betrayals and Demerzel’s Stressful Gaze
Betrayals and Demerzel’s Stressful Gaze

Foundation Season 3 Episode 4, titled The Stress of Her Regard, isn’t just a mouthful, it’s a pressure cooker. This episode drops bombshells we’ve been waiting on since Season 1 and still manages to leave us stressed, confused, and emotionally…

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Weapons Review | Flickreel
Weapons Review | Flickreel

Weapons has a premise right out of a classic urban legend. The kind that the camp counselors would tell around a fire to scare the bejesus out of the younger kids. As a chilling narrator explains, seventeen children from the…

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Nick Kroll and Andrew Rannells Are No Tucker and Dale in This Spotty Slasher-Comedy [Review]
Nick Kroll and Andrew Rannells Are No Tucker and Dale in This Spotty Slasher-Comedy [Review]

It’s weird because this kind of movie has worked before, and the actors leading the effort in “I Don’t Understand You” have been funny and engaging before, but so little goes right with this one that it’s honestly astonishing. A…

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I Was Hunched Over In My Seat Watching This Terrifying Film, But I Wish The Characters Were Better Explored
I Was Hunched Over In My Seat Watching This Terrifying Film, But I Wish The Characters Were Better Explored

What frights await those who closely watch the panning camera in Zach Cregger's 2025 horror movie, Weapons. The director of 2022's terrifying and unexpected Barbarian is back again, and he's picked up some nifty lessons in the intervening years. With…

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Society Is in Shambles as Secrets and Scandals Lead to Heartbreak
Society Is in Shambles as Secrets and Scandals Lead to Heartbreak

Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for The Gilded Age Season 3. Following John Adams' (Claybourne Elder) sudden death in Episode 6, The Gilded Age Season 3, Episode 7, "Ex-Communicated," delivers more drama than ever. Not only is Oscar…

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Disney+’s ‘Black Panther’ Prequel Series Is the Show ‘What If…?’ Tried and Failed To Be
Disney+’s ‘Black Panther’ Prequel Series Is the Show ‘What If…?’ Tried and Failed To Be

The Marvel Cinematic Universe had arguably its best run of films during Phase 3, which had heavy-hitting classics introduced like Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Avengers: Infinity War, and more. However, when it comes to pure pop…

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Swings for Nostalgia but Misses the Fairway
Swings for Nostalgia but Misses the Fairway

One of my all-time biggest comfort movies is the first Happy Gilmore, released back in 1996. Ever since I was a kid, I used to watch that movie all the time with friends at sleepovers, with my mom, and even just…

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