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A MAN CALLED OTTO MOVIE REVIEW Tom Hanks is grumpy and sad Tom Hanks who we all root to turn into happy Tom Hanks in Tom Hanks: The Movie. A Man Called Otto is an adaptation of a popular 2012 novel and later a Swedish film called “A Man Called Ove”. This new American version […]

BLACK ADAM MOVIE REVIEW So, from what it sounds like to me, The Rock walked right into WB offices, said, here, I’m Black Adam. Make the movie, and turned around and walked out. That’s my imagining of it anyway. I’ll tell you that DC’s latest super-hero film definitely feels like a bunch of executives scrambling […]

DEAD FOR A DOLLAR MOVIE REVIEW Dead for a Dollar is an old fashioned western about Max Borlund (Christoph Waltz), a bounty hunter hired by a wealthy businessman to rescue his kidnapped wife Rachel (Rachel Brosnahan). The poor woman is being held for ransom by Elijah (Brandon Scott), a buffalo soldier and army deserter. Accompanying […]

CONFESS, FLETCH MOVIE REVIEW For those of you who don’t know Fletch, let me give you a brief: Fletch is an investigative journalist (former in this movie) that has quick wit and big mouth. A lot of times that mouth gets him the information he seeks. Other times it gets him in more trouble. There […]

WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS SEASON 4 REVIEW Season 3 of What We Do In The Shadows ended with each of our favorite vampire roommates leaving home to embark on their own voyages of self discovery. Except for Colin Robinson. Who died. Again. Sort of? Season 4 wastes no time getting Staten Island’s wackiest […]

INFESTATION: ANNECY ANIMATION FEST 2022 – THE GLASSWORKER Our man in Poland, Maciej Kur (check out his comic books Lil and Put and the soon to be released in America Dollicious as well as the Netflix animated series he wrote Kayko and Kokosh) got to go to the best animation festival in the world, the […]

INFESTATION: ANNECY ANIMATION FEST 2022 – LITTLE NICHOLAS HAPPY AS CAN BE Our man in Poland, Maciej Kur (check out his comic books Lil and Put and the soon to be released in America Dollicious as well as the Netflix animated series he wrote Kayko and Kokosh) got to go to the best animation festival […]

MINIONS: THE RISE OF GRU MOVIE REVIEW How are there five films in the Despicable Me universe? Oh wow, I just said, “The Despicable Me Universe”. I mean…really. Well now we know why. Because our own Spider-Mike is an honest-to-god big fan of these films. And for this latest entry, the second prequel after 2015’s […]

OBI-WAN KENOBI SERIES REVIEW A long time ago, before Disney purchased Lucasfilm and completely erased the Star Wars Expanded Universe, there were thousands of pages of comics and novels, as well as games, detailing every corner of the galaxy far, far away. There was so much content from so many different publishers, that even the […]

BARRY SEASON 3 REVIEW HBO’s hottest dark comedy crime thriller is back, and it’s got everything, panther fights, Grand Theft Auto motorcycle gang chases, silver fox Henry Winkler in the greatest performance of his already illustrious career (Henry Twinkler, which is a guy in a Fonzie costume made entirely out of latex who does that […]

LIGHTYEAR MOVIE REVIEW Pixar’s latest is the story of Buzz Lightyear. Not the Toy Story Buzz, but the character that the toy was merch of. You see, an opening scrawl informs us that the young Andy’s favorite movie was…this movie. I guess in the context of the Toy Story universe, the original voice actor for […]

CHIP ‘N DALE: RESCUE RANGERS Don’t be fooled. This isn’t a reboot. This is a continuation of the characters Chip and Dale from the old Rescue Rangers series, but in this reimagining, those lil’ chipmunks were actors in a Roger Rabbit style world co-populated by humans and toons, Chip (voiced by John Mulaney)and Dale (Andy […]

RUSSIAN DOLL SEASON 2 REVIEW After the Happy Death Day narrative of Season 1 of Netflix’s Russian Doll (albeit, with more of a Final Destination killer), Nadia (Natasha Lyonne) doesn’t seem to have settled down in her lifestyle much in the years that have passed. Which I guess is why the universe felt the need […]

THE UNBEARABLE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE TALENT MOVIE REVIEW In The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, actor Nicholas Cage, the man, the myth, the meme, plays the role of a lifetime – himself. Sort of. Here he plays the meta-fictional Nic Cage, a once popular movie star whose career has stalled. Nic can’t find work, his […]

SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 2 MOVIE REVIEW The Blue Blur is back! After the events of Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic(Ben Schwartz) is living comfortably with his new family the Wachowskis (James Marsden and Tika Sumpter) in Green Hills ready for more. After being invited to a tropical escape from the city for a wedding, Sonic is […]