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
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
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
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
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
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]
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
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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Two Sisters Take On The Patriarchy In This Riotous Action Comedy [Sundance]
Ria Khan (Priya Kansara, sparkling in her feature debut) likes to believe that she’s no ordinary British-Pakistani teenager. Her dreams, for instance, always seem outsized — she doesn’t just want to learn martial arts but rather perfect it so well…
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AI Doll Goes Feral in Johnstone’s Wickedly Fun Horror Film
Move over, Chucky! There’s a new killer doll in town. She’s the model 3 generative android, or M3GAN for short, and she is a child’s greatest companion and a parent’s greatest ally. A marvel of artificial intelligence, the life-like doll…
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Nicole Holofcener Is Back On Her Game In A Tender, Funny Julia Louis-Dreyfus Vehicle [Sundance]
There was a time when it seemed like every movie trailer for every single comedy began with bouncy music and a voice-over artist explaining cheerfully, “[NAME OF PROTAGONIST] had it all!” But at the beginning of Nicole Holofcener’s “You Hurt…
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Goliath | Film Threat
The drama Goliath agonizingly revisits the idea that you cannot go home again. Canadian director/writer Luke Villemaire brings the pain when a young woman gets a fateful call at work. That lady is Robin Walker (Jessica Sipos), who has a promising…
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