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SEPTEMBER 5 MOVIE REVIEW On September 5, 1972 in Munich Germany, the televised world-wide Summer Olympics was ground zero for a terrorist attack known as the Munich Massacre. Writer/Director Tim Fehlbaum with co-writers Moritz Bender and Alex David blend together real news footage with an sizable ensemble cast. The film tackles the ABC sports news […]

THE MONKEY MOVIE REVIEW Director/writer Osgood Perkins is on a roll. Not long after making the horror movie everyone was talking about (good or bad) Longlegs, Perkins is back already with an adaptation of the Stephen King story The Monkey, but this time he’s playing with splatstick comedy-horror. Theo James plays twin brothers Hal and […]

THE BRUTALIST MOVIE REVIEW Who knew a nearly 4 hour sweeping historical epic could move at a breakneck pace? Brady Corbet’s newest feature, The Brutalist, achieves that in spades and very well could be one of the best films of the year. Adrien Brody stars as László Tóth, a Hungarian holocaust survivor emigrating to America […]

CARRY-ON MOVIE REVIEW Ethan Kopek (Taron Egerton) is living his best life. His beautiful girlfriend Nora (Sofia Carson) has just had a positive pregnancy test and she is slaying problems as a career girl. His best friend Jason (Sinqua Walls) encourages him to reach for that next rung on the corporate ladder. He and Nora […]

NOSFERATU MOVIE REVIEW Nothing says “Merry Christmas” quite like a prestige horror film. Robert Eggers is back and has delivered his 4th feature film with his version of the classic, Nosferatu . Bill Skarsgård stars as the titular vampire whose shadow looms over the picture like a cold blanket while Lily-Rose Depp stars as Ellen […]

JUROR #2 MOVIE REVIEW Whenever a jury duty summons comes in, I’m annoyed, aren’t we all, but definitely not mad about it either. However, if I received this notice while my wife was enduring a second pregnancy in the third trimester, I’d be quite angry. Enter our protagonist Justin Kemp (Nicholas Hoult). A recovering alcoholic, […]

QUEER MOVIE REVIEW Director Luca Guadagnino dives into the world of transgressive author William S Burroughs with his latest film, Queer. The story follows Burroughs, as his literary stand-in William Lee (Daniel Craig). The writer drinks his way through his days, living in Mexico, and looking for love. Well, sex anyway. He forms an irresistible […]

TRASH IN THE CAN: ALIEN FROM L.A. This week, we see a film that blends Journey to the Center of the Earth, Terry Gilliam’s Brazil, Mario Brothers, and a Jane Fonda Workout. Sound fun? No? What’s wrong with you? Nathan Flynn joins us for Kathy Ireland’s acting debut as a baby-voiced moron in 1988’s Alien […]

VENOM: THE LAST DANCE MOVIE REVIEW Unbelievably, Venom: The Last Dance is the third film in the series to get made, starring Tom Hardy in the dual roles of Eddie Brock and his charming but homicidal alien symbiote Venom. This time he’s on the run from nearly everybody. The law wants him because after the […]

Smile 2 Movie Review The saying “a smile is worth a thousand words” doesn’t even begin to describe the horror in Parker Finn’s sequel to his 2022 hit Smile. Smile 2 takes place 6 days after where the last film left us and we’re following the lone survivor of the Smile entity, Joel (Kyle Gallner). […]

WE LIVE IN TIME MOVIE REVIEW Who knew that what the world needed right now is the ridiculous amount of charisma of Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield in a romance? Directed by John Crowley (Brooklyn, Boy A), We Live In Time tells the story of Almut (Pugh) and Tobias (Garfield) and how their car crash-cute […]

Saturday Night Movie Review In the midst of its 50th season on television, Saturday Night Live is without question a staple in American comedy. It’s hard to imagine that the comedy juggernaut was almost an impressive disaster right up until it aired on October 11th, 1975. Saturday Night, directed by Jason Reitman, tells the story […]

MEGALOPOLIS MOVIE REVIEW Once heralded as one of the most gifted filmmakers of all time, Francis Ford Coppola has finally achieved his nearly 40 year dream in releasing his epic vision, Megalopolis. The film is jam packed full of incredible actors and some problematic ones. It is led by Adam Driver who plays Cesar Catilina, […]

Folie à Deux Movie Review The Clown Prince of Crime has taken on Batman, the Justice League, and the Gotham Police time and time again, but his newest foe…musicals? Joaquin Phoenix is back in his Oscar winning performance as Arthur Fleck in Joker: Folie a Deux. Todd Phillips’ approach to the 2019 film was an […]

SPEAK NO EVIL MOVIE REVIEW The Danish horror film Speak No Evil was much discussed in horror circles as being one of the bleakest and most frightening films of 2022. Now here comes Blumhouse Films to soften it up for American audiences. And while there is no denying that they did exactly that, is it […]

MY OLD ASS MOVIE REVIEW Elliott (Maisy Stella) has grown up in a beautiful lakeside town with her family, who grow cranberries there for a living. While there had been some expectation that she would continue on in the family business at some point, she has since made clear that she has no interest. Soon […]

BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE MOVIE REVIEW After many, many, MANY, many many attempts to get a sequel to 1988’s smash cult hit Beetlejuice off the ground, Tim Burton finally got somebody to pony up the dough all these decades later. Everyone is back (except for Jeffrey Jones because of…well, look it up) and it’s a family reunion […]

Better late than never, which could be said to be true both for the release date of this review and of the movie Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F. After the dismal third chapter in 1994, and with Eddie Murphy's declining star power...

DEADPOOL AND WOLVERINE MOVIE REVIEW Deadpool is finally in the MCU for real. He made the cut. He gets his third movie. But this time he’s bringing Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine with him on an adventure to save their universes from the ‘sacred timeline’ wiping them out (re: the MCU). So, we gotta reference the Time […]

TWISTERS MOVIE REVIEW In this age of rapidly changing weather, as disasters begin to significantly increase, it’s par for the course for Hollywood to parallel it with action films. So let’s resurrect a film from 1996, beloved by some, make it plural, and largely have no other connection to the original. It’s Twisters and now […]

LONGLEGS MOVIE REVIEW The hype is here for director/writer Osgood Perkins new horror film Longlegs. It’s everywhere. Even not huge horror fans I know are talking about it in anticipation. Which is weird because I only know a handful of people who actually saw his terrific other films, The Blackcoat’s Daughter, Gretel and Hansel, and […]

MAXXXINE MOVIE REVIEW Even if you’re not a fan of the films, you’ve got to hand it to director/writer Ti West: no one has ever made a horror trilogy in the fashion that the X series is constructed. Each one distinctively different in style, and believe me, style is in charge here, but ultimately with […]

THE BIKERIDERS MOVIE REVIEW Director Jeff Nichols (Mud, Take Shelter) dives into the world of motorcycle enthusiasts in the 1960s with The Bikeriders. Inspired by a book of photography of the same name that chronicled the lives of outlaw bikers in the period, the film is an original story by Nichols. It is told largely […]

HIT MAN MOVIE REVIEW Director Richard Linklater is a director who pretty much always turns out a good film, even if it’s not terribly populist entertainment. Hit Man certainly isn’t for the kids, but it’s surprising that Netflix buried its theatrical run considering how endearing the film really is, not to mention the star vehicle […]

BAD BOYS: RIDE OR DIE MOVIE REVIEW The bad boys return for this fourth movie (shouldn’t they have saved “for life” for this one) from the same director/writers as the previous entry. This time, Mike (Will Smith) is tying the knot with the beautiful Christine (Melanie Liburd) and it’s a lovely wedding except that Marcus […]

KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES The apes and their planet return in their tenth overall outing in this brand new (300 years after the last film) story. Caesar and his revolution have become more of a legend than anything else in this world of separated ape tribes. The Eagle Clan live peacefully, with […]