Tag: Movie
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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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Directors Clare Knight and Harry Cripps Interview: Back to the Outback
Welcome directors Clare Knight and Harry Cripps for their new animated Australian adventure, Back to the Outback. We discuss moving from editorial or writing to directing, common misconceptions, and spooky creatures. More about Back to the Outback: A ragtag group of the world’s deadliest creatures – and one cute but utterly obnoxious koala – escape…
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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…
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Review: Encanto and The Beatles: Get Back
It’s all about family in Disney’s 60th animated feature film, Encanto (but not in a Fast & Furious way sadly). Plus Peter Jackson’s 10 kajillion hour documentary trilogy The Beatles: Get Back hits Disney+. More about Encanto: In Walt Disney Animation Studios’ “Encanto,” Mirabel—the only ordinary member of her extraordinary family— discovers that the magic…