Category: Review

  • Review: Joe Bell and How It Ends

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    Mark Wahlberg aims for awards but lands in reductive storytelling in Joe Bell. Plus can we handle How It Ends now that we have some modicums of hope? More about Joe Bell: From filmmaker Reinaldo Marcus Green (MONSTERS AND MEN; upcoming KING RICHARD), along with the Academy Award-winning writing team behind BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN (Diana Ossana…

  • Review: Space Jam: A New Legacy and Pig

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    Welcome to the Space Jam (A New Legacy) … but do you want to stay there? Also Nicolas Cage needs his Pig back. More about Space Jam: A New Legacy: Welcome to the Jam! NBA champion and global icon LeBron James goes on an epic adventure alongside timeless Tune Bugs Bunny with the animated/live-action event…

  • Review: Black Widow (Spoiler Free) and Zola

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    One of these films finally got THEDHK back into theaters! Marvel’s Black Widow and A24’s Zola are both up for review. More about Black Widow: In Marvel Studios’ action-packed spy thriller “Black Widow,” Natasha Romanoff aka Black Widow confronts the darker parts of her ledger when a dangerous conspiracy with ties to her past arises.…

  • Review: The Tomorrow War and The Boss Baby: Family Business

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    To stream or not to stream? That is the question with this week’s Chris Pratt led sci-fi thriller The Tomorrow War and animated film The Boss Baby: Family Business. More about The Tomorrow War: In the thrilling science-fiction action adventure The Tomorrow War, the world is stunned when a group of time travelers arrive from…

  • Review: F9

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    F9 is here and it’s the latest entry into the Fast and Furiousverse and it makes nooooo sense, but should you watch it anyway?! Find out! More about F9: Vin Diesel’s Dom Toretto is leading a quiet life off the grid with Letty and his son, little Brian, but they know that danger always lurks…

  • Review: Luca, Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard, and The Sparks Brothers

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    Pixar’s latest, Luca, is an Italian charmer. Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L. Jackson, and Salma Hayek return in Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard but perhaps some franchises should stay dead. Finally, Edgar Wright’s The Sparks Brothers will bring you into a club of cool kids music that you wish you’d been a member of long before. More about…

  • Review: In the Heights and Wish Dragon

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    Lots of expectations on In the Heights and somehow Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jon M. Chu, and Quiara Alegría Hudes’ film soars above them. Plus the new animated film Wish Dragon on Netflix. More about In the Heights: Lights up on Washington Heights…The scent of a cafecito caliente hangs in the air just outside of the 181st…

  • Review: A Quiet Place Part 2 and Sweet Tooth

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    It’s a post apocalyptic double feature (again?) with John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place Part 2 and the new Netflix series Sweet Tooth which is based on the DC Comic by Jeff Lemire. More about A Quiet Place Part 2: Following the deadly events at home, the Abbott family (Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe) must…

  • Review: Cruella

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    Sure Cruella has style, but does it have substance for anyone but a Disney superfan? More about Cruella: Academy Award® winner Emma Stone (“La La Land”) stars in Disney’s “Cruella,” an all-new live-action feature film about the rebellious early days of one of cinemas most notorious – and notoriously fashionable – villains, the legendary Cruella…

  • Review: Army of the Dead, The Dry, and Dream Horse

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    Zack Snyder + zombies = formulaic fun? in Army of the Dead. Eric Bana in The Dry is a relatively dry thriller. Plus yes Dream Horse is the real name of a movie that is not aimed at children. More about Army of the Dead: Following a zombie outbreak in Las Vegas, a group of…