Tag: Streaming
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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: 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 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…
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Review: Venom: Let There Be Carnage and Squid Game
Do you have to remember anything about Venom to see Venom: Let There Be Carnage? Probably not – and that’s probably not a great thing. Also WTF is Squid Game on Netflix and why is it on track to be their most streamed show of all time after only 2 weeks? More about Venom: Let…
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Review: Dear Evan Hansen and Foundation
How can one adaptation go so horribly awry and one go so “meh” so far? The musical Dear Evan Hansen makes its way to the big screen and Isaac Asimov’s Foundation hits Apple TV+. More about Dear Evan Hansen: The breathtaking, generation-defining Broadway phenomenon becomes a soaring cinematic event as Tony, Grammy and Emmy Award…
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Review: Vacation Friends and The Chair
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…
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Review: The Suicide Squad and Vivo
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…
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Review: A Quiet Place Part 2 and Sweet Tooth
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…
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Review: In the Earth and The Circle Season 2
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…