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CARRIE SEASON 1 REVIEW Legend tells that Tabitha, an editor of a spooky scary author, fished a manuscript out of the troubled scribe’s trash can. Reading what had escaped the author’s mind onto crumpled pages, she demanded the story be completed. Thus the novel Carrie was born. Fifty years later and the world is once […]

THE WHISPER MAN MOVIE REVIEW Widowed crime writer Tom Kennedy (Adam Scott) is thrown into every parent’s nightmare when his young son Jake is abducted. Desperate for answers, Tom turns to his estranged father, retired detective Pete Willis (Robert De Niro), whose past may hold the key: decades earlier, Pete captured notorious child killer Frank […]

MAYDAY MOVIE REVIEW Mayday is a retro 80’s-style buddy action-comedy set during the waning days of the Soviet Union. Ryan Reynolds plays Lt. Troy “Assassin” Kelly, a US Navy pilot assigned to a black ops spy mission over a remote Soviet facility. Unfortunately for Troy, his plane is shot down, and he finds himself stranded […]

THE LAST HOUSE MOVIE REVIEW Home is where the heart is. Unfortunately, it’s also where the doors won’t open, the windows won’t break, and something deeply unpleasant is wandering around outside in the rain. Netflix’s The Last House traps Jason (Wagner Moura), Ann (Greta Lee), and their two children inside their family home with absolutely […]

DON’T SAY GOOD LUCK MOVIE REVIEW There are two kinds of people in this world; those who get excited when they see Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison production slate appear before a film, and those who brace themselves for two hours of lowbrow schlock. While neither reaction is entirely warranted, Sandler can be a divisive figure […]

THE DINK MOVIE REVIEW John McEnroe once said “I’m not a convert to pickleball, I think it sucks”. Pickleball is a very simple activity that’s a lot like badminton, paddle ball, and table tennis on a smaller court and is much easier on the muscles and joints. Apple Plus’ new sports comedy about the sport […]

OFFICE ROMANCE MOVIE REVIEW You never know when you’ll meet your soul mate. Time stops, your heart takes control, your mind finally understands Brian Williams’ hit song ‘Everything I do, I do it for you’, and you feel like the best brother from Legends of the Fall, Tristan. What if this happens to you at […]

THE PUNISHER: ONE LAST KILL REVIEW Marvel’s latest Special Presentation, The Punisher: One Last Kill, puts Frank Castle back in the crosshairs for a brutal, blood-soaked mission that finds the vigilante confronting old ghosts, unfinished business, and a city that seems determined to keep creating new targets. Set between Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 and […]

FALLOUT SEASON 2 REVIEW Who needs a nuclear armageddon to turn America into a barren wasteland when water-hungry AI data centers belonging to Amazon and other tech giants can do the job just as well? It’s an irony befitting the world of Fallout, the long running video games series and now critically acclaimed TV show… […]

PLUR1BUS SEASON 1 REVIEW From a single room in your house to the neighborhood grid of your city. All the way up to the panoramic satellite view of the state, then the country, up passed the atmosphere and finally the home we call Earth. The existence of life is both small and vast. What kind […]

THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB MOVIE REVIEW When four retirees (Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley, and Celia Imrie) trade in bingo night for cold-case crime solving, they get more than they bargained for after stumbling into a very real murder. Suddenly, the cozy English village is buzzing with secrets, suspects, and amateur detective work that’s […]

HIGHEST 2 LOWEST MOVIE REVIEW Rick Rubin once said “There’s a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across” and Spike Lee once said “I think it is very important that films make people look at what they’ve forgotten”. Apple Plus presents Highest 2 Lowest a film directed by […]

MURDERBOT MOVIE REVIEW They Might be Giants once rocked out to the lyrics “Robot parade, robot parade, wave the flags that the robots made”. As any Sci-Fi fanatic knows, the overthrow of man by the cold steel hands of a robot all begins with that first step into the land of free will. Adapted from […]

THE OLD GUARD 2 MOVIE REVIEW “And here we are, we’re the princes of the universe. Here we belong, fighting for survival. We’ve come to be the rulers of you all”-Freddie Mercury. Who knew that this one lyric would best describe the long awaited sequel to the smash hit The Old Guard on Netflix? Andy […]

HEADS OF STATE MOVIE REVIEW There have been some great entries into the action-comedy road trip genre, with films like Tango & Cash, The Long Kiss Goodnight, The Nice Guys, Midnight Run, and recently Deadpool & Wolverine. Now, Idris Elba and John Cena are using their combined charisma and endless charm in the genre. This […]

THE STUDIO SERIES REVIEW What goes into making a cinematic classic? According to the Fablemens. It’s facing your fears, dealing with your parents divorce with courage and empathy, and understanding the importance of a horizon line. The credits at the end of a film suggest that not one visionary with a dream but rather 1,500 […]

HAVOC MOVIE REVIEW A good house is built on a solid foundation with primo materials and a foreman that knows that hard work and honest labor with no cut corners will create not just a home for one generation but a domicile for future generations. What if that foreman was a crooked, backstabbing politician whose […]

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 […]

AGATHA ALL ALONG SERIES REVIEW Disney Plus would like to M See U this fall for the WandaVision follow-up, Agatha Coven of Chaos! Wait, was that it? Hold on, let me get Feige on the phone: Mr. Feige, was that Agatha the Darkhold Diaries or Agatha the Lying Witch and the Wardrobe? He has just […]

BROTHERS MOVIE REVIEW Israel Zangwill once said “It takes two men to make one brother”. Step aside Gyllenhaal and Maguire. Retire and move on Devito and Schwarzenegger. This time around the actors playing siblings are Josh Brolin and Peter Dinklage in a film directed by Max Barbakow and written by Etan Cohen and Macon Blair, […]

THE PLATFORM 2 MOVIE REVIEW “Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger” – Maxim Gorky. Netflix presents The Platform 2. Directed by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia and starring Milena Smit and Hovik Keuchkerian. The Platform 2 is a pre-re-Sequel that further explores the atrocities people are […]

GOODRICH MOVIE REVIEW What if you were so into your life’s work that the life you were living happened as if you were on the outside looking in? What if you were SO into your work that you’d often step away from the outside looking in completely? Written and directed by Hallie Meyers-Shyer, Goodrich is […]

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON SEASON 2 REVIEW Tensions are quite high in Westeros. House of the Dragon is back with its second season and picks up right where we left off when Prince Aemond (Ewan Mitchell) killed Prince Luke and left the relationship between Queen Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy) and Queen Alicent (Olivia Cooke) in utter […]

THE BEAR SEASON 3 REVIEW Dial up the Emmy voters and get the best ensemble SAG award ready. The Bear on FX and Hulu is back with season 3. We last left Chef Carmey (Emmy winner Jeremy Allen White) locked in the freezer. The beef wasn’t the only thing needing a thaw within that icey […]

WHAT REMAINS MOVIE REVIEW Writer/Director Ran Huang and Co-Writer Megan Everett-Skarsgård presents What Remains, based on a true story mystery of a man confessing to multiple murders that he may have not committed. The film begins with a chance at a new life as Mads Lake (Gustaf Skarsgård) is released on a probationary period but […]