Category: Review
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Review: Moonfall, Book of Love, and Pam & Tommy
We know Roland Emmerich’s Moonfall is going to be bad, but is it GOOD bad or BAD bad? Same goes for the cookie cutter story Book of Love. Finally Pam & Tommy is here and we have complicated feelings on it. Listen on Apple Podcasts. More about Moonfall: In Moonfall, a mysterious force knocks the…
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Review: GameStop: Rise of the Players, The Afterparty, and The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window
Unfortunately unless you were part of the ride, GameStop: Rise of the Players might leave you more confused than when you started watching. Also this week brings a pair of whodunit satires with The Afterparty on Apple TV+ and the cumbersomely titled The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the…
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Review: The King’s Daughter and Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock
What is The King’s Daughter? How did it get Julie Andrews to narrate!? Where in the mermaid hell did it come from?! Find out! Also Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock is here to continue Jim Henson’s legacy with poise and positivity. Listen on Apple Podcasts. More about The King’s Daughter: Known as The Sun…
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Review: Hotel Transylvania: Transformania, Peacemaker, and Cheer Season 2
Hotel Transylvania: Transformania is relentlessly zany and we’re not sure who it’s for. Peacemaker is committed to chaotic absurdity and Cheer Season 2 on Netflix takes place in a much darker world than season 1, but does it retain it’s joy? Listen on Apple Podcasts. More about Hotel Transylvania: Transformania: Drac and the Pack are…
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Review: The 355, Drive My Car, and Parallel Mothers
The year is off to a rocky start with the spy thriller The 355. Thankfully there are some awards contenders from 2021 that are seeing a wider release including Drive My Car and Pedro Almodovar’s Parallel Mothers. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about The 355: A dream team of formidable female stars come together in…
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Review: Don’t Look Up, The King’s Man, The Lost Daughter, The Tragedy of Macbeth, Beanie Mania, and Single’s Inferno
Awards deadlines approach so it’s a supersized episode for the last reviews of 2021! Don’t Look Up, The Lost Daughter, and The Tragedy of Macbeth are all vying hard for accolades. The King’s Man doesn’t seem to be vying for anything (including logic). As for some lighter fare there’s also the Beanie Baby documentary Beanie…
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Review: The Matrix Resurrections (Spoiler Free), Being the Ricardos, and Sing 2
Time to enter The Matrix Resurrections but are some things better left dead? Plus Aaron Sorkin delivers his take on I Love Lucy with Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem in Being the Ricardos. Finally in other sequel news Sing 2 is a bonkers film that we’re not sure who it’s for? Listen on Apple Podcasts…
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Review: Spider-Man: No Way Home (Spoiler Free) and Nightmare Alley
The long awaited Spider-Man: No Way Home is here but does the web slinger live up to the hype? Also Guillermo Del Toro heads to the carnival with his cast of acting legends in Nightmare Alley. You can also listen on Apple Podcasts. More about Spider-Man: No Way Home: For the first time in the…
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Review: West Side Story and Red Rocket
Steven Spielberg takes his shot at West Side Story but is it really a story that needed retelling? Also Sean Baker once again turns his cinematic eye to overlooked communities and wholly formed characters in Red Rocket. More about West Side Story: WEST SIDE STORY is produced and directed by Steven Spielberg from a script…
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Review: The Power of the Dog, Wolf, and Try Harder!
Jane Campion brings us Benedict Cumberbatch in chaps in The Power of the Dog. George MacKay channels his inner canis lupus in Wolf. Finally get ready to relive your college admissions trauma through the students of Lowell High in the incredibly watchable Try Harder!. More about The Power of the Dog: Charismatic rancher Phil Burbank…