Tag: Netflix

  • Review: Vacation Friends and The Chair

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    This week features two streaming options full of bumbling awkward (and sometimes stupid) scenarios with Vacation Friends on Hulu and The Chair on Netflix. More about Vacation Friends: In this raw and raunchy comedy, straight-laced Marcus and Emily are befriended by wild, thrill-seeking partiers Ron and Kyla at a resort in Mexico. Living in the…

  • Review: The Suicide Squad and Vivo

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    James Gunn takes a crack at The Suicide Squad and thankfully doesn’t ask much of his audience. Meanwhile Lin-Manuel Miranda brings his talents (and Hamilton and In the Heights collaborators) to the new animated film, Vivo. More about The Suicide Squad: Welcome to hell—a.k.a. Belle Reve, the prison with the highest mortality rate in the…

  • Director Chris Appelhans Interview: Wish Dragon

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    Welcome director Chris Appelhans for the new animated film Wish Dragon. We chat about the challenges of making a film under severe constraints, hilarious language misadventures in China, and the great Jackie Chan. More about Wish Dragon: In Sony Pictures Animation’s Wish Dragon, Din, a working-class college student with big dreams but small means, and…

  • 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: 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…

  • Mike Rianda for The Mitchells vs. The Machines

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    Welcome director Mike Rianda to chat about the power and perils of feedback, first films, explaining working in animation to your family, and of course his feature directorial debut, The Mitchells vs. The Machines. More about The Mitchells vs the Machines From the humans who brought you the Academy Award®-winning Spider Man: Into the Spider-Verse…

  • Review: Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse, The Mitchells vs The Machines, and Four Good Days

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    Michael B. Jordan brings his acting chops to the Ryanverse (is that even a thing?) but does Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse even deserve him? The Mitchells vs. The Machines is an animated delight. Four Good Days also wastes the potential of its stars. More about Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse: An elite Navy SEAL uncovers an…

  • Review: Mortal Kombat and Stowaway

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    2021’s Mortal Kombat is on the cusp of cult terrible-greatness and Stowaway on Netflix is a bunch of very smart characters acting very stupid (in space!) More about Mortal Kombat: In “Mortal Kombat,” MMA fighter Cole Young, accustomed to taking a beating for money, is unaware of his heritage—or why Outworld’s Emperor Shang Tsung has…

  • Review: In the Earth and The Circle Season 2

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    Out of your Sundance nightmares comes In the Earth from Ben Wheatley. Also the reality competition show The Circle returns – except we’re all in the Circle now [Send Message]. More about In the Earth: As the world searches for a cure to a disastrous virus, a scientist and park scout venture deep in the…