Tag: Netflix
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The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Air, Paint, How to Blow Up a Pipeline, Beef – 304
Nostalgia might be the only thing that warps you through The Super Mario Bros. Movie. However Air will lift you up, even though Michael Jordan feels absent from his own story. Paint has a blank canvas at its disposal but fails to find perspective. How to Blow Up a Pipeline is an intense eco-thriller. Finally…
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Review: Magic Mike’s Last Dance and You Season 4, Part 1
The ab-tastic trilogy is supposedly complete with Magic Mike’s Last Dance. Meanwhile this might be a turning (and exit) point for you when it comes to You. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about Magic Mike’s Last Dance: Mike Lane takes to the stage once again when a business deal that went bust leaves him broke…
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Review: The Son and Bling Empire: New York
In spite of some capital A acting talent, The Son fails to shine. Bling Empire: New York has less heart but more sheen than its sibling series. More about The Son: THE SON centers on Peter, whose hectic life with his infant and new partner Beth, is upended when his ex-wife Kate, appears with their…
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The Pale Blue Eye and Women Talking
Whoda thunk Edgar Allan Poe would star in a middling tale of woe in The Pale Blue Eye? Plus Women Talking is very true to the title, but is it compelling? Listen on Apple Podcasts More about The Pale Blue Eye West Point, 1830. In the early hours of a gray winter morning, a cadet…
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Review: The Banshees of Inisherin and Wendell & Wild
The In Bruges trinity of McDonagh, Farrell, and Gleeson reunite for The Banshees of Inisherin. Meanwhile a first time collab for Henry Selick and Jordan Peele in the stop-motion animated Wendell & Wild. More about The Banshees of Inisherin: Two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming…
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Review: Black Adam, and The School for Good and Evil
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson finally gets his crack at superhero spandex, but is it worth it to see Black Adam? Plus Netflix’s fairly fun fairy-tale fused romp The School for Good and Evil. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about Black Adam: Nearly 5,000 years after he was bestowed with the almighty powers of the ancient…
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Review: Bros, Blonde, Hocus Pocus 2, and God’s Creatures
Billy Eichner is here with his delightful new rom-com Bros. Ana de Armas steps into the famous white dress in Blonde. The Sanderson Sisters return in Hocus Pocus 2. Finally Emily Watson and Paul Mescal shine in the very dark God’s Creatures. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about Bros: This fall, Universal Pictures proudly presents…
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Review: Don’t Worry Darling, The Woman King, and Dahmer
The Don’t Worry Darling press tour gets its own review this week (because let’s be honest it was more interesting than the film itself). Viola Davis reigns supreme in The Woman King and Evan Peters creeps masterfully in Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story on Netflix. Listen on Apple Podcasts: More about Don’t Worry…
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Mack & Rita, Day Shift, Emily the Criminal, A League of Their Own – 237
Even Diane Keaton can’t save Mack & Rita (aka 30 going on 70). Jamie Foxx is in another Netflix paint by numbers movie of the week, Day Shift. Aubrey Plaza steals the show in Emily the Criminal. Finally the series adaptation of A League of Their Own is at least a triple, if not a…