Category: Review

  • Rent-a-Pal, The Boys, The Vow – 5

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    IFC Midnight’s Rent-a-Pal has surprising warm (but then delivers on the weird). You also should absolutely be watching The Boys on Amazon Prime Video and The Vow on HBO. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about Rent-a-Pal Set in 1990, a lonely bachelor named David (Brian Landis Folkins) searches for an escape from the day-to-day drudgery…

  • Mulan, The New Mutants – 3

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    While Mulan should have come out in theaters – it’s probably worth a stream, meanwhile this review thinks The New Mutants shouldn’t have come out at all. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about Mulan Acclaimed filmmaker Niki Caro brings the epic tale of China’s legendary warrior to life in Disney’s “Mulan,” in which a fearless…

  • Bill and Ted Face the Music, Get Duked!, You Cannot Kill David Arquette – 1

    Bill and Ted Face the Music, Get Duked!, You Cannot Kill David Arquette – 1

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    We’re watching two blasts from the past and one… something or another this week with “Bill and Ted Face the Music” “Get Duked” and “You Cannot Kill David Arquette” Listen on Apple Podcasts – Bill and Ted are back but I don’t know if I’d call their return fully excellent. – “Get Duked” might be…

  • Chemical Hearts, Tesla, Boys State

    Chemical Hearts, Tesla, Boys State

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    Lots of streaming from home options this week with “Chemical Hearts” “Tesla” and “Boys State”. Unfortunately “Chemical Hearts” lacks heart – it’s like an AI wrote a script of what it thought would be marketable to teens. Lili Reinhart and Austin Abrams star. “Tesla” is an uninspired portrait of an inspiring figure. Ethan Hawke provides…

  • Project Power, An American Pickle

    Project Power, An American Pickle

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    “Project Power” thinks its reinventing the wheel but really it’s just recycling, while “An American Pickle” might be worth marinating in. “Project Power” on Netflix feels like it’s a bunch of VFX and video game storyboards strung together. The only saving grace is the acting of Dominique Fishback, Jamie Foxx, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Machine Gun…

  • Made in Italy

    Made in Italy

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  • Summerland, The Umbrella Academy 2

    Summerland, The Umbrella Academy 2

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    “Summerland” is inconsistent but the love story is refreshing, and “The Umbrella Academy” is back! More about “Summerland” – Alice is a reclusive writer, resigned to a solitary life on the seaside cliffs of Southern England while World War II rages across the channel. When she opens her front door one day to find she’s…

  • The Rental, Radioactive

    The Rental, Radioactive

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    Dave Franco’s directorial debut “The Rental” probably isn’t worth the price of a rental, and the Amazon Studios Marie Curie biopic “Radioactive” may cause fallout. More about The Rental: Two couples on an oceanside getaway grow suspicious that the host of their seemingly perfect rental house may be spying on them. Before long, what should have been a celebratory…

  • The Old Guard, Greyhound

    The Old Guard, Greyhound

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    Charlize Theron and Kiki Layne kick ass and take names in Netflix’s “The Old Guard” but Tom Hanks is just lame in Apple TV Plus’s “Greyhound.” Gina Price-Bythewood shows how to do action right on Netflix with “The Old Guard” based on the comic by Greg Rucka. Charlize Theron, Kiki Layne, Matthias Schoenaerts, Marwan Kenzari,…

  • Review: First Cow, Palm Springs, and Mucho Mucho Amor

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    We finally have some highlights this summer with First Cow,Palm Springs, and Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado! More about First Cow The film is a striking moment in time in the nineteenth century. Yes there is also actually a cow. Just watch it. Kelly Reichardt directs, John Magaro, Orion Lee, Ewen Bremner,…