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THE ELECTRIC STATE MOVIE REVIEW Directors Anthony and Joe Russo (Those Avengers Endgame fellas) and their frequent screenwriting collaborators, Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely (those other two Avengers Endgame fellas) continue their Netflix contract obligations by delivering one of the most expensive movies ever made (none of it going to Chris Pratt’s wigs) with an […]

TRIGGER HAPPY MOVIE REVIEW In a world where you must buy a gun in order to get health care, where the number one show on television is an infomercial for a sponge and the most watched kids program is about a dino-gun character named Tricera-Glock, one man struggles to escape the inescapable mundanity of suburban […]

STAR WARS: SKELETON CREW SERIES REVIEW The One Of Us Jedi Counsel of Melina, Marco, and T.C. gather to discuss the newest entry into the Star Wars franchise and are gleefully pleased to see that building an entire series around the Amblin Entertainment model that gave us The Goonies, E.T., and the entire kids on […]

SALEM’S LOT MOVIE REVIEW Let the right one in this fall season and commune with Bradly, Drew, and Melina as they partake in a midnight mass of vampire cinema forged from the mind of Stephen King at the pique of his spooky scary powers. Written and directed by Gary Dauberman, Salem’s Lot is a modern […]

WOLFS MOVIE REVIEW George Clooney and Brad Pitt star in this movie you might’ve seen a trailer for a few months back. Unless you live in New York or Los Angeles, and knew about the singular week it was actually in theaters. Now, the only way you’re watching this snappy action-comedy thriller is with that […]

INCOMING MOVIE REVIEW The teen sex comedy genre has had some truly classic entries in the past couple of decades, like Dazed and Confused, Can’t Hardly Wait, American Pie and Superbad. These movies focus on the coming-of-age experiences of teenagers, often revolving around high school and that one night where everything goes wrong before it […]

THE LAST BREATH MOVIE REVIEW Back in ye olden days, a ship would go out to see and often return with tales of adventure and massive booty. But alas, what if the captain and the hardy crew did not return to dock? Could the ship have sank, and what of the hearty crew? Perhaps a […]

THE DEVIL’S BATH MOVIE REVIEW In 18th century Austria, love is in the air! Or in the very least, an arrangement made between random strangers to please their lineage and God by becoming one under holy matrimony and offering up their wedding bed for the good of procreation and carrying on the will of the […]

STAR WARS: THE ACOLYTE SERIES REVIEW The Knights of One Of Us, Melina, Neil, and TC, gather in the Jedi Council Chambers to discuss the newest entry in the Star Wars canon, The Acolyte. This mystery-thriller tells the dark tale of of Mae (Amandla Stenberg), an assassin of Jedi who has been trained in the […]

A FAMILY AFFAIR MOVIE REVIEW Zara Ford (Joey King) is a young ambitious producer who’s ready to take the Hollywood bull by the horns and change the industry forever! She’s got her Pulitzer prize winning mother’s (Nicole Kidman) blessing and bottomless funds, and a foot in the door by being Mr. Blockbuster mega star Chris […]

THE GREAT LILLIAN HALL MOVIE REVIEW Broadway actress Lillian Hall is ready to go full showtime with Ivan Chekhov’s stage play “The Cherry Orchard” but a bad diagnosis from her doctor sets her up to have the standard biopic ‘long life lived’ reflections before the final curtain call. The Great Lillian Hall stars Jessica Lange […]

TALES OF THE EMPIRE SERIES REVIEW Following in the steps of Tales of the Jedi, which told the tales of Count Dooku and Ahsoka Tano in the prequel era, Tales of the Empire offers us another point of view. After losing everything, young Morgan Elsbeth (who we were introduced to in the Ahsoka series as […]

HUMANE MOVIE REVIEW Who knew that a Cronenberg could make a populist movie?! That’s what we get to some degree with Caitlin Cronenberg’s (daughter of filmmaker, David Cronenberg) first feature, Humane. Set in the not too distant future, the UN has decided due to environmental collapse that each country in the world needs to decrease […]

STAR WARS: THE BAD BATCH SEASON 3 REVIEW In the aftermath of the Clone Wars, The Bad Batch follows Hunter, Cross Hair, Wrecker, Tech, and Echo, a unique squad of clone troopers with genetic mutations who resisted Order 66 and go on the run in the early days of the Galactic Empire. They are joined […]

RIPLEY SERIES REVIEW He had always understood the power of lies – how they could shape reality, how they could make people see what you wanted them to see. The Talented Mr. Ripley, written by Patricia Highsmith back in 1955, has seen many adaptations over the decades. This time around, Steven Zaillian is running the […]

THE GREATEST HITS MOVIE REVIEW We all have those special songs that take us back to a moment in time. We can hear a track, and suddenly, we’re with our first love, or driving across our home town, or hanging with those friends we’ve lost touch with. Imagine listening to those songs didn’t just figuratively […]

ARCADIAN MOVIE REVIEW It’s a gamble when you watch a Nic Cage film. You never know if it’s going to be a good movie or not, but the man never phones it in. No matter the quality of the overall film, you’ll still get Cage at full Cage. The real gamble is choosing to watch […]

RICKY STANICKY MOVIE REVIEW Every once in a while, a filmmaker grows so far beyond the types of movies that they began their career with, it’s amusing to look back over their filmography and see how much they’ve matured. A director like Adam McKay can start his cinematic career with Anchorman and then win an […]

THE FEUD SEASON 2: CAPOTE VS THE SWANS REVIEW After his novel In Cold Blood in 1966, eccentric life of the party Truman Capote climbed the ladder of high life society and became the legendary culture icon we all know, love, and imitate to this very day. What’s a scaling of social ladders though without […]

AMERICAN DREAMER MOVIE REVIEW John Steinbeck once said “Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”. American Dreamer is a film about Phil (Peter Dinklage) who is a writer/college professor who wants it all: The hot wife, the fast car, & a […]

SUNCOAST MOVIE REVIEW Back in the 90’s, a famous writer/comedian/late night talk show host did a recurring bit of what the world would be like in the year 2000. Come back to us Conan O’Brien, we miss you. In the distant past, 2004-6 was a time of Juicy T-shirts, PussyCat Dolls, Tom Brady and the […]

TRUNK – LOCKED IN MOVIE REVIEW Trunk – Locked In is a new thriller streaming on Amazon Prime Video. A German film, this movie is relentless in its pacing. Right out of the gate we meet Malina, in a trunk, dazed and confused. Someone has abducted her for reasons that are unclear but through a […]

THE UNDERDOGGS MOVIE REVIEW If you are of a certain generation, there’s a good chance that not only have you seen The Mighty Ducks, but you could probably quote it while explaining the plot in great detail. It was certainly a pivotal film of the early 90s. It spawned several sequels and more than a […]

CHICKEN RUN: DAWN OF THE NUGGET MOVIE REVIEW It’s been 23 years since Chicken Run came into our cinematic lives one stop motion frame at a time. And like all sequels that come decades later, the bar and expectations have been set higher than the electric fence surrounding Mrs. Tweedy’s farm. Since Ginger, Rocky, and […]

GODZILLA MINUS ONE MOVIE REVIEW Godzilla has been known to overshadow his co-stars (figuratively and literally) but Godzilla Minus One deliberately centers its story around its human characters. During the final months of WW2, a kamikaze pilot named Koichi (Ryunosuke Kamiki), abandons his suicide mission by flying back to base for bogus repairs. No sooner […]