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CHALLENGERS MOVIE REVIEW Who knew a movie about tennis could be so sexy?! Only genre-jumping Luca Guadagnino could bring a fresh take on a sports movie with Challengers. Zendaya plays tennis prodigy, Tashi, who develops a relationship with two rising stars in the game, Art (Mike Faist) and Patrick (Josh O’Connor), which ultimately becomes a […]

THE MINISTRY OF UNGENTLEMANLY WARFARE MOVIE REVIEW If anyone is going to make a World War 2 movie look cheeky and fun then Guy Ritchie is your bloke. Ritchie returns to the big screen after last year’s somber The Covenant with The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. Based on a true story, the film follows a […]

GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE MOVIE REVIEW The time for busting has resumed, only whether it’ll make you feel good certainly seems pretty polarizing this time around. Ok, really every time around when The Ghostbusters have another film, even, apparently in retrospect now, the original. Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire follows the events of 2021’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife which brought […...

MADAME WEB MOVIE REVIEW Sony Pictures’ spin-off Spider-verse keeps getting more bizarre in the way it plucks side characters from Spider-Man’s story and reinvents them for its own purposes. None more so than Madame Web, which takes the 90-something year old clairvoyant and makes her Dakota Johnson. In this world, Spider-Man doesn’t exist yet (it’s […]

MERRY LITTLE BATMAN MOVIE REVIEW Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Batdad! Happy Belated Holidays. If you’re not quite hungover from all the parties, annoying family members, and binge eating… you may want to check out Merry Little Batman streaming on Prime. It’s a mashup of everything you love about the Batman universe […]

THE IRON CLAW MOVIE REVIEW Are you ready to rumble? Well, you can get it on with A24’s new biopic about the doomed Von Erich family, The Iron Claw. Fritz (Holt McCallany) was a major wrestler in his day, but that time has passed and the mantle has been handed off to his multiple sons […]

THE BOY AND THE HERON MOVIE REVIEW In what seems likely to be master animator and storyteller Hayao Miyazaki’s final film (the man is 82), The Boy and the Heron returns to dark and surreal fantasy and I suspect long-time fans will be beside themselves happy about it. The story follows Mahito, a 12 year […]

WISH MOVIE REVIEW Disney’s latest animated release Wish is inspired by their Centennial anniversary, and yeah, they don’t want you to forget it for a second during this film. The kingdom of Rosas was founded by a powerful wizard who becomes King Magnifico (Chris Pine). He and his Queen (Angelique Cabral) rule with a gentle […]

OUTLAW JOHNNY BLACK MOVIE REVIEW In 2009, Michael Jai White gave cinema one of the best homages and genre sendups of all-time with Black Dynamite. It wasn’t just a great comedy, it was an outstanding film, which at every step was elevated by the committed performance (and jacked physique) of co-writer and lead Michael Jai […]

A HAUNTING IN VENICE MOVIE REVIEW Poirot is tired. And I don’t mean because of the last two Kenneth Branagh starring/directed films being so blah. I mean, in this third installment of his adaptations starring Agatha Christie’s famous detective character, he’s hung up his magnifying glass. Hidden away in Venice and refusing to accept any […]

MY ADVENTURES WITH SUPERMAN SEASON 1 REVIEW For 85 years, the Last Son of Krypton has been fighting for truth and justice, and battling evil of all sorts. He balances a life as the superhero all other superheroes are compared to while living as mild mannered Clark Kent, working for the Daily Planet alongside the […]

WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS SEASON 5 REVIEW What We Do In The Shadows, everybody’s favorite sitcom about vampires living together on Staten Island, is back for another season of mockumentary-style hijinks. Last season ended with Guillermo (Harvey Guillén), the long suffering familiar being turned into a vampire by someone who is NOT his […]

GRAN TURISMO MOVIE REVIEW What gamer hasn’t had a fantasy that they got to live their games for real? Even you apocalyptic gamers; I see you imagining how fun the end of the world would be. And yet, these are just fantasies. But not for young Jann (Archie Madekwe) who was SO good at the […]

BLUE BEETLE MOVIE REVIEW DC has obviously been going through some changes of late with their filmed content and Blue Beetle may, or may not be, the first in the new DCU. Honestly, it’s really just a stand alone, which is probably for the best as it really lets what works about it shine: the […]

STRAYS MOVIE REVIEW Tired of rewatching Barbie and Oppenheimer for the 16th time? Well, you’re in luck! Strays is the new film directed by Josh Greenbaum (Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar) which tells the story of Reggie the dog, voiced by Will Ferrell. Reggie is a happy-go-lucky pup that loves his human […]

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: MUTANT MAYHEM Believe it or not, there are other films opening this summer that aren’t named Barbie or Oppenheimer and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is just one of them. Even if you’ve never seen a TMNT property, you probably already know the basic set-up: a mysterious green ooze released […]

HAUNTED MANSION MOVIE REVIEW Emboldened by the huge success of Pirates of the Caribbean, Disney has been determined to get a big franchise out of one of their other most classic and beloved attractions at the theme parks, The Haunted Mansion. The first attempt in 2003 with Eddie Murphy did not go so well, to […]

INFESTATION: ANNECY ANIMATION FESTIVAL 2023 Spider-Mike and comics/animation writer Maciej Kur (Dollicious, Kayko and Kokosh) team up across the world to discuss the films and shorts at this year’s Annecy Animation Film Festival. Maciej talks about The Concierge, Spellbound, Chicken For Linda!, Lonely Castle in the Mirror, Once Upon a Studio, Wish, and more! Please […]

INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY MOVIE REVIEW One last time to strap on the whip and put on the hat…here we go. Certainly the last Indiana Jones outing did not exactly meet with the world’s universal pleasure and Harrison Ford has been pushing ever since to get one more go-round. It’s still a […]

BARRY SEASON 4 REVIEW Well everyone, as they say in the world of theater, the final curtain has fallen on the beloved HBO series…pause for dramatic effect…Barry. That’s right, the show has officially concluded with it its fourth season and HOLY FREAKING DAVE AND BUSTER’S if we nerds at Oneofus.net haven’t been busting at the […]

TRANSFORMERS: RISE OF THE BEASTS MOVIE REVIEW It’s time to ROLLOUT for the 7th entry in the Transformers franchise! Steven Caple Jr, director of Creed 2, takes us to 1994 where we find the Autobots lying dormant until an ancient artifact sends out a beacon to not only our heroes but to an evil faction […]

SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE MOVIE REVIEW I’m going to start by telling you something that the studios really dropped the ball on making extremely clear about Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse: it’s part one of two and ends on a huge cliffhanger. Now you can just enjoy this sequel to Into The Spider-Verse as it deserves […]

ROBOTS MOVIE REVIEW In an almost Idiocracy “We’re doomed” not-too-distant future, the “big, beautiful” border wall has been completed, and 11 million people have been sent to the other side, leaving a massive non-complaining, non-raping workers hole to fill (the movie’s pointed satirical words, not ours). Tesla has advanced robotics technology to enable humanity...

FOOL’S PARADISE MOVIE REVIEW Charlie Day, from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia fame, has finally made his directorial debut with Fool’s Paradise. We follow the mute Latte Pronto, also played by Day, who finds himself a part of the Hollywood machine as a dead ringer for a blowhard actor in the next big picture. He’s […]

THE SUPER MARIO BROS. MOVIE REVIEW It’s been 30 years since the critical and commercial failure of the Super Mario Bros movie. And because of that absolute bomb, Nintendo has been very, very reluctant to license one of its properties for any sort of adaptation, film or otherwise. Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto was finally convinced […]