Category: 2026
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Toy Story 5
4 outta 5 Toy Story 5 provides another solid Toy Story entry even though, honestly, Toy Story 3 had a fairly definitive ending. However, the specials, shorts, Part 4 and Part 5, all deliver fun continuing adventures of the Toy Story gang. Their plastic life is different now with their former leader leaving, and being…
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The End of Oak Street
4 outta 5 The End of Oak Street may be a high-concept idea, but it ends up being a pretty straightforward survival movie featuring dinosaurs, with some really gnarly horror action involving folks being eaten by dinosaurs. This movie is primarily scenes of either dinosaur attacks or family melodrama. Adding a 1980s visual sheen is…
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Spider-Man: Brand New Day
5 outta 5 Spider-Man: Brand New Day is the 4th Spider-Man film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and is probably more of a character drama than previous MCU Spider-Man movies. Considering that Homecoming is a high school coming-of-age comedy, Far From Home is a full-on sitcom road trip movie and No Way Home is a…
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The Odyssey
5 outta 5 Director Christopher Nolan bounces around genres and his films are unique and compelling. Now his adaptation of the epic Greek poem The Odyssey is appropriately epic. This is still a uniquely Nolan movie except set in ancient times and also has fantasy and horror elements. The Odyssey is a cool way to…
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Evil Dead Burn
3 outta 5 It doesn’t seem possible, but Evil Dead Burn may actually be the goriest entry in the Evil Dead series. The excessive violence and cackling dismembered Deadite heads fit the tone of the last few installments. The 3rd film, Army of Darkness and the TV show Ash vs Evil Dead are much more…
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Supergirl
3 outta 5 Supergirl is the second film of the once again rebooted DC Universe after 2025’s Superman but tonally it could have fit into the old DCEU Snyder-verse. More than anything, this movie feels of a piece of director Craig Gillespie’s previous output like I, Tonya, Cruella, Pam and Tommy and Fright Night. His…
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Disclosure Day
4 outta 5 Disclosure Day is Steven Spielberg going back to space aliens, a topic he excels at, with 2005’s War of the Worlds so far sitting at the top of 21st Century Spielberg movies. This movie is less about murderous aliens and more about unknowable awe and possessed folk of Close Encounters of the…
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Masters of the Universe
4 outta 5 Masters of the Universe is intentionally corny and camp adaptation of the toy line and animated series, which itself was pretty campy. The show and comics was primarily a venue to sell toys, a sci-fi action line that Mattel made up after kicking themselves for passing on Star Wars. There’s a decent…
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Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu
4 outta 5 The Mandalorian and Grogu, a spin-off of the Disney Plus show, is fun and action packed. Very action packed. It is so action packed that the film is basically a constant string of action scenes that may be a bit wearying after a while. There are a few characters pulled from previous…
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Remarkably Bright Creatures
4 outta 5 Remarkably Bright Creatures is a heap of melodrama and coincidence but it manages to be heartfelt and effective, with the help of a narrator Octopus and a hellova emotional performance by the leads. The twists at the end are a bit unbelievable but work emotionally. Also the geek cred in Remarkably Bright…
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