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SEARCH PARTY SEASON 5 SERIES REVIEW Welcome to Search Party Season 5! This week’s specials are Avocado Toast with Hot Baby hot sauce and a side of near-death experience induced Armageddon. Turns out Dory, Drew, Porsche, and Elliot are poised to pull the rug out on the whole of humanity with “enlightenment in a pill”, […]

LANDSCAPERS MINISERIES REVIEW In 2014 Susan & Christopher Edwards were convicted of murder and sentenced to a minimum of 25 years in prison. To this day, they maintain their innocence. Landscapers is the dramatized retelling of their story. The couple killed Susan’s parents and buried them in the rear garden of the elderly couple’s home. […]

SUCCESSION SEASON 3 TV SERIES REVIEW “Succession” has concluded its latest season and we finally got a chance to sink our teeth into it. Following the bombshell Kendall Roy (Jeremy Strong) dropped concerning Waystar’s cruise line controversy, he has found a renewed desire to dethrone his tyrannical father Logan (Brian Cox) to become the company’s […]

SANTA INC SERIES REVIEW Merry Christmas you f****** animals! Are you ready to deck the halls with your balls(ack)? Sorry to be so vulgar… There’s this new show streaming on HBO Max called “Santa Inc.”, and oh boy… are there a lot of words that parents will have to explain to the little ones. If […]

DOOM PATROL SEASON 3 SERIES REVIEW Time to get weird again as we dive into the third season of HBO Max’s adaptation of DC Comics’ “Doom Patrol”. After having its second season cut short due to the pandemic, the new batch of episodes starts off with wrapping up what was left hanging last year before […]

DUNE MOVIE REVIEW “Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me.” This was our critics mantra before sitting down to watch this latest adaptation of (the first half) of Frank Herbert’s seminal and essential sci-fi […]

WELLINGTON PARANORMAL SERIES REVIEW “What We Do in the Shadows”, the American spin-off of the movie of the same name, is huge right now, to be sure. But did you know there was ANOTHER spin-off series of the original film? “Wellington Paranormal” is a New Zealand series (now on HBO) following those two bumbling cops […]

THE MANY SAINTS OF NEWARK – A SOPRANOS STORY MOVIE REVIEW The first new piece of “Sopranos” media in over a decade is here with “The Many Saints of Newark.” Serving as a prequel to the series, we follow Christopher Moltisanti’s father Dickie (Alessandro Nivola) in 1960’s Newark as part of the DiMeo crime family. […]

CRY MACHO MOVIE REVIEW Yes, this new film directed by and starring Clint Eastwood made me cry. Not because it made me feel sad, or touched me, it’s just that poor Clint is SO OLD now, I was afraid for him the way you’re afraid when your grandfather walks down the stairs slowly and painfully. […]

MALIGNANT MOVIE REVIEW In director/co-writer James Wan’s latest foray into schlocky fun spoopyness, Annabelle Wallis plays Madison, who after finding her abusive husband has been murderized to an extreme degree by some sort of…shape, starts having experiences where she seems to be able to see other murders as they happen from this black-clad, superhumanly agile […]

REMINISCENCE MOVIE REVIEW Hey kids! Do you like “Westworld”? Do you like its novel storytelling approach, it’s tight structure and it’s ability to be both realistic and futuristic at the same time? Then you probably won’t like “Reminiscence”. Then again, maybe you will. If that sounds conflicting, it’s because this noir-ish romantic thriller from “Westworld” [&#...

THE WHITE LOTUS SERIES REVIEW Sunny Skies greet the guests and workers at The White Lotus resort in Hawaii but storms soon set in over this cast of quirky and demented characters. Steve Zahn and Connie Britton are a father and highly successful mother taking their son (Fred Hechinger), daughter (Sydney Sweeney), and her friend […]

THE SUICIDE SQUAD MOVIE REVIEW James Gunn slides on over to pick up the reigns at DC with this second “Suicide Squad” film and the anticipation level, for those of us who dig Gunn’s whole thing, loved his “Guardians of the Galaxy” films AND his pre-big budget crazier fare, was sky high. His version of […]

SPACE JAM: A NEW LEGACY MOVIE REVIEW After twenty long years, Warner Bros has released their theatrical length HBO Max commercial that just so happens to use “Space Jam” as the focus point. More accurately, “Space Jam: A New Legacy” follows LeBron James as himself having issues with his son Dom, who wants to become […]

NO SUDDEN MOVE MOVIE REVIEW Some filmmakers spend their retirement relaxing and enjoying their hobbies. Then you have Steven Soderbergh who retired from making movies so… he could make more movies? Regardless of whether he qualifies for senior discounts or not, Soderbergh has only grown more prolific during his supposed “retirement”. His latest feature, “No […]

IN THE HEIGHTS MOVIE REVIEW Lights up! Now on HBOMax and in theaters, Jon M. Chu’s adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony award winning musical “In The Heights” is now here. Starring “Hamilton” breakout star Anthony Ramos as Usnavi, a young bodega owner dreaming of leaving his hometown of Washington Heights as the neighborhood experiences a […]

THE CONJURING: THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT MOVIE REVIEW In this third film in the Conjuring series (but EIGHTH in the…conjurverse…dammit, you made me say it), Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga return as paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren. This time, it’s not a haunted house. The film begins with a little boy, who […]

MARE OF EASTTOWN SERIES REVIEW The power of the miniseries remains as potent as ever judging by the wave of popularity that has erupted this past spring over HBO’s “Mare of Easttown”. A top-of-her-game Kate Winslet leads this 7-episode drama, along with solid support from actors such as Jean Smart, Evan Peters, Julianne Nicholson and […]

THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD MOVIE REVIEW In this latest film by Taylor Sheridan (which means tough but real-ish folks dealing with crime, of course) Angelina Jolie plays Hannah, an experienced smoke-jumper at a Montana state park who is dealing with some PTSD from a huge fire and some kids she couldn’t save. But now, […]

MORTAL KOMBAT MOVIE REVIEW So, what’s the best movie that is an adaptation of a video game? Many would say the corny but fun 1995 “Mortal Kombat” film by Paul W. S. Anderson. Now, that’s not a wildly high bar, and perhaps it’s that the legions of fans from this ever-continuing and evolving fighting game […]

TINA MOVIE REVIEW Anybody who’s anybody has an HBO documentary made about them. Few people have a story as compelling as Tina Turner, however. One of the few women in the world whose first name alone is synonymous with a combination of rock and soul, Turner’s tumultuous journey is front and center of one of […]

GODZILLA VS KONG MOVIE REVIEW The battle of the major-domo monsters is finally here, as Legendary Entertainment’s Monsterverse comes to a head with Godzilla, previously in their “Godzilla” and “Godzilla: King of the Monsters”, battling it out with a now-bigger and older King Kong, previously seen in their “Kong: Skull Island”. Who will win? Will […]

TOM & JERRY MOVIE REVIEW Tom and Jerry bring their brand of slapstick to the Big Apple in this latest adaptation of the classic cartoon. Chloe Grace Moretz plays Kayla, a woman looking for easy work and when a job at a high end hotel falls into her lap (with the help of a stolen […]

30 COINS – SEASON 1 REVIEW Created by and directed/written by cult favorite Spanish filmmaker Álex de la Iglesia, this new HBO horror series dives deep into Catholic esoterica and comes up with some of the best horror television in years. When a new and pretty rough priest comes to a small town bearing one […]

JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH MOVIE REVIEW Fred Hampton was a charismatic and important leader of the Black Panthers in Chicago during the late 60s, who managed to bring together multiple different organized ethnic groups (even the ‘south shall rise again’ rednecks) into the same conversation: that it was time to stop letting the wildly […]