The Mandalorian and Grogu Review
It’s been seven years since The Rise of Skywalker left the Star Wars saga on a divisive note. As Star Wars fumbled on the cinematic front, a new hope arose on Disney+ with The Mandalorian, reminding audiences why they fell in…
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Milly Alcock Gives Us the Best Version of the DC Superhero To Date
When Milly Alcock's Kara Zor-El first stumbled into the Fortress of Solitude at the end of Superman, she was unlike any other version of Supergirl we've seen on screen. She drunkenly crashed into the fortress, giggling while getting tossed around…
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Folk Time-Travel Mystery Is Exquisitely Haunting
The experience of watching a Mark Jenkin film is defined by specificity. The Cornish filmmaker not only writes and directs his projects, but acts as cinematographer, editor, sound designer, and composer, and his signature in all those roles is remarkably…
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Spielberg’s Curiosity Outpaces His Story
Disclosure Day follows Margaret Fairchild, a Kansas City television meteorologist, and Dr. Daniel Kellner, a cybersecurity expert working for a secretive government organization known as WARDEX. When long-hidden information regarding extraterrestrial life begins to surface, the pair find themselves caught…
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HBO’s ‘House of the Dragon’ Begins Its Penultimate Act With an Explosive Season 3 Premiere
Editor's note: The below contains spoilers for House of the Dragon Season 3's premiere. Long waits for new seasons of hit shows are common, especially ones as ambitious and large-scale as House of the Dragon, but it's rare that lengthy…
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Steven Spielberg’s Awe-Struck Existential Thriller Finds Wonder In The Burden Of Cosmic Truth
A world on edge is already coming apart: divided, unstable, on the brink of war, and seemingly one revelation away from collapse. In that combustible atmosphere, a buried secret threatens to shatter the global order or set humanity free. This…
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Citizen Vigilante | Film Threat
NOW ON VOD! Uwe Boll never plays it safe, which is why the world loves Uwe Boll. He crosses lines because they exist, and his latest, Citizen Vigilante, is a movie that dares you to root for a man who…
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Apple TV’s ‘Sugar’ Sidelines Its Boldest Sci-Fi Swing in Season 2
Sugar is a strange show. The Colin Farrell-led Apple TV series, which first premiered two years ago, follows an LA-based private eye and cinephile investigating the case of a missing woman. Sounds simple enough, but there’s a twist: The titular…
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Obsession Review | Flickreel
Few sayings are more cliched than “be careful what you wish for,” but Obsession has more fun with this message than you’d expect. Bear (Michael Johnston) wants nothing more than to get out of the friend zone with Nikki (Inde…
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Stop! That! Train! Review: Full Camp, Full Steam
There is a very specific kind of movie that doesn’t care whether every plot point clicks into place so long as the energy never dips. Stop! That! Train! arrives with exactly that mission statement: take an old-fashioned disaster premise, throw…
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A Netflix Movie Fit for the Big Screen
Audiences have become all too familiar with streaming service romcoms that follow predictable beats, do what's expected of them (or maybe a little less), and then fade into the background, rarely to be remembered—that's not Voicemails for Isabelle. Netflix's newest…
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Bella Thorne And Helena Howard Lead A Hollow Vacation Revenge Thriller
No character in a thriller film has ever had a good drug trip, so it’s extra hilarious when, three-quarters of the way through Shudder’s upcoming release, a well-meaning character tells the protagonist to take shrooms, insisting that “the drugs will…
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