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THE BEST FILMS OF 2024 PART ONE This more accurately should be titled, the best films of 2024 that we haven’t already talked about (largely). Because we are not talking about Anora, The Brutalist, or The Substance here. We did those reviews. We’re primarily talking about the other greatest films that we didn’t get to […]

MARIA MOVIE REVIEW “An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I’ve left the opera house” – Maria Callas Angelina Jolie is the titular character Maria in this […]

OH, CANADA MOVIE REVIEW Misery may love company but its infatuation with Paul Schrader could move mountains and ignite the stars. Hot off the conclusion of his loner weirdo trilogy (First Reformed, The Card Counter, and The Constant Gardener), Paul Schrader is moving in a different direction by adapting one of esteemed author Russell Banks […]

BETTER MAN MOVIE REVIEW Let’s go through our musical biopic checklist, shall we? Talented kid from a broken home dreams of becoming a pop star? Check. Serious daddy issues? Check. Fame and overwork leads to exhaustion, addiction, and self-destructive behavior? Check, check, and check. Protagonist is depicted as a CGI singing, dancing monkey voiced by […]

THE ORDER MOVIE REVIEW Bank robberies, car heist, a disappearance, a terrible work of fiction called The Turner Diaries…What connects them? An offshoot Aryan Nation group calling themselves The Order. The film The Order tells the story of FBI Agent Terry Husk (Jude Law) investigating the rise of a Nazi militia led by young charismatic […]

WICKED MOVIE REVIEW Seems like a holiday season can’t go by anymore without a big event musical film. Not that Chris, Frank, Wright, and Kim are complaining (note: these four end up together on a lot of the musical releases). This year though, one of the biggest musicals of the past few decades that has […]