Category: Reviews
‘My Animal’ Review: A Moody, Trippy Queer Werewolf Romance Is Limited, But A Remarkably Assured Debut [Sundance]
‘My Animal’ Review: A Moody, Trippy Queer Werewolf Romance Is Limited, But A Remarkably Assured Debut [Sundance]

Like most teenagers, Heather (non-binary actor Bobbi Salvör Menuez), a social misfit who lives in a rural town in northern Canada, has a strict midnight curfew to adhere to. But unlike other teenagers, staying out for longer has a much…

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Joel McHale Leads a Wildly Playful Workplace Comedy
Joel McHale Leads a Wildly Playful Workplace Comedy

Amid a fierce primetime landscape filled with single-camera comedies left and right, Fox appears to have one of the more wildly funny new 2023 entries with Animal Control, a refreshing workplace sitcom led by Emmy-nominated actor, Joel McHale. With the…

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Ben Platt, Molly Gordon Star in Musical Mockumentary
Ben Platt, Molly Gordon Star in Musical Mockumentary

From Wet Hot American Summer to Heavyweights and Camp Nowhere, summer camp has cinematically always been a place to get weird. But for the campers at the theater camp AdirondACTS, a few months away from home in the time to…

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Millennium Bugs | Film Threat
Millennium Bugs | Film Threat

NOW ON VIDEO ON DEMAND! Remember the Y2K scare of 1999? I do. I worked at a financial institution at the time, and my sole job that year was converting all date records from two digits to four digits. I…

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Tenpin Stoke Review: A Classy Refurb
Tenpin Stoke Review: A Classy Refurb

Towards the tail end of 2022, Tenpin Stoke had a refurbishment that tidied up a rather tired bowling alley and it’s worked a treat, here’s our Tenpin Stoke review. Featuring 30 bowling lanes, new lighting and seating, a brand new…

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Melling Outshines Bale In Mismanaged Gothic Mystery
Melling Outshines Bale In Mismanaged Gothic Mystery

Home Movie Reviews The Pale Blue Eye Review: Melling Outshines Bale In Mismanaged Gothic Mystery The Pale Blue Eye, based on the novel by Louis Bayard, is meant to be a gothic whodunit by design. However, it will hardly inspire…

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Jonah Hill & Eddie Murphy’s Comedic Chops Can’t Save A Corny, Superficial Family Comedy
Jonah Hill & Eddie Murphy’s Comedic Chops Can’t Save A Corny, Superficial Family Comedy

How do you make the norm abnormal for the sake of comedy? Interracial/mixed-race families are so ordinary these days (I’m part of one as we speak), but comedy often has to exaggerate our differences to strike at deep laughs that…

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Gael García Bernal Shines in Lucha Libre Biopic
Gael García Bernal Shines in Lucha Libre Biopic

Home Movie Reviews ‘Cassandro' Review: Gael García Bernal Shines in Lucha Libre Biopic | Sundance 2023 Bernal is a blast both in and out of the ring in this look at the life of exótico Saúl Armendáriz. Image via Sundance…

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Quiet Family Drama With Great David Strathairn
Quiet Family Drama With Great David Strathairn

Home Movie Reviews ‘A Little Prayer' Review: Quiet Family Drama Features an Excellent David Strathairn | Sundance 2023 Angus MacLachlan's newest film also stars Anna Camp, Will Pullen, and Jane Levy, in her best performance yet. Image via Sundance When…

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A Thousand and One | Film Threat
A Thousand and One | Film Threat

SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2023 REVIEW! A Thousand and One, the debut feature by writer-director A.V. Rockwell, is set in 1993, New York. We first meet Inez (Teyana Taylor), a strong-headed, fierce, and determined 22-year-old hairdresser being freshly released from Rikers…

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Kenneth Dagatan’s WWII Fairy Tale Features A Wicked Morality Not For The Faint Of Heart [Sundance]
Kenneth Dagatan’s WWII Fairy Tale Features A Wicked Morality Not For The Faint Of Heart [Sundance]

The opening scene of Kenneth Dagatan’s sophomore feature, “In My Mother’s Skin,” promises the audience each of the horror genre’s grisliest thrills: The squelching sounds of oozing blood, the sight of flesh-ripping carnage in progress as well as in past…

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Magic Mike’s Last Dance Review
Magic Mike’s Last Dance Review

It’s been over a decade since the first Magic Mike, which I blindly went into under the assumption that it was a basketball movie. You can imagine my surprise when male strippers were handing out condoms at the advance screening.…

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