Category: Reviews
Nuanced Apple TV Drama Gives Charlie Hunnam A Rich Acting Platform
Nuanced Apple TV Drama Gives Charlie Hunnam A Rich Acting Platform

Apple TV just doesn’t seem to care as much as the others about the bottom line. They’re willing to drop a small fortune on shows that simply aren’t designed to break out in a way that would attract a mass…

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One of the Best Adaptations of Tale
One of the Best Adaptations of Tale

The world doesn’t need any more Pinocchio stories. Sorry everyone, we’re all full up. While Carlo Collodi’s story of the woodcarver Geppetto and his wooden boy come to life have led to some great adaptations (Disney’s 1940 Pinocchio), and some…

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The Biblical Is Made Brutal
The Biblical Is Made Brutal

Though the Christmas season comes every year, there regrettably aren’t a lot of holiday horror movies out there. Thus, whenever there is the rare occasion where some new ones come out, they stand out just based on their mere existence.…

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I Wanna Dance With Somebody
I Wanna Dance With Somebody

The boundaries between an artist’s life story and ornate tombstone shatter in the moving Whitney Houston biopic I Wanna Dance With Somebody by director Kasi Lemmons. Written by Anthony McCarten, it begins in 1983 in a New Jersey church where a young…

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Carey Mulligan & Zoe Kazan Expose The Weinstein #MeToo Story In A ‘Spotlight’-Esque Procedural [NYFF]
Carey Mulligan & Zoe Kazan Expose The Weinstein #MeToo Story In A ‘Spotlight’-Esque Procedural [NYFF]

If and when they choose to speak out about it, survivors of sexual assault each find their own ways of describing their harrowing memories of the incident that victimized them. Going into survival mode, however, is perhaps one experience several…

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Gripping Legal Drama Succeeds On All Fronts
Gripping Legal Drama Succeeds On All Fronts

Argentina, 1985 is a deceptively clever bit of filmmaking that, as long as people are willing to traverse that one-inch barrier of subtitles, should be as embraced by casual moviegoers as seasoned cinephiles. It is a based-on-a-true-story legal drama that…

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The Grinch Stole the Fun From This Horror Flick
The Grinch Stole the Fun From This Horror Flick

The Mean One is the horror-movie reimagining of Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas, told from the point of view of Cindy Lou Who as an adult. Sounds like a wacky, wonky, fractured fairytale, right? The film starts off…

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Puss in Boots: The Last Wish Review: A Purr-fect Comeback
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish Review: A Purr-fect Comeback

It would be fair to say that DreamWorks Animation is not the juggernaut that it used to be. From the early 2000s up until the early 2010s, the animation studio has given audiences true classics in the medium including the…

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‘Halloween Ends’: Pretty Please? Promise? [Review]
‘Halloween Ends’: Pretty Please? Promise? [Review]

If there’s a lesson to be learned from David Gordon Green’s trilogy of “Halloween” legacy-quels, it’s to quit while you’re ahead. His 2018 “Halloween” (a direct sequel to the original 1978 masterpiece and a ret-con of its many, many follow-ups) was a surprisingly…

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Burnzy’s Last Call – Directors Cut
Burnzy’s Last Call – Directors Cut

In the mid-90s, Michael de Avila’s feature film, Burnzy’s Last Call, was a staple of the Sundance Channel and its exclusivity deal with Blockbuster Video. Now whittled down to one last Blockbuster, de Avila’s movie was seemingly lost forever until he…

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Brendan Fraser Leads Silliest Superhero Season Yet
Brendan Fraser Leads Silliest Superhero Season Yet

Home TV Reviews 'Doom Patrol' Season 4 Part 1 Review: Brendan Fraser Leads the Silliest Superhero Season Yet There is no show out there that offers both superhero silliness and, among many other things, singing butts that have been resurrected.…

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Roberts & Clooney Charm In Enjoyably Mediocre Rom-Com
Roberts & Clooney Charm In Enjoyably Mediocre Rom-Com

Home Movie Reviews Ticket To Paradise Review: Roberts & Clooney Charm In Enjoyably Mediocre Rom-Com Ticket to Paradise seems too afraid to dig into the romantic aspects, but it makes up for it by being charming, sweet, and occasionally funny.…

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