Category: Movie Reviews
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Balls Up
2 outta 5 Balls Up is a very dumb movie directed by Peter Farrelly who often tracks in Dumb and Dumber movies (and also Oscar winning Best Picture, Green Book). It has a doofy duo yelling at each other and making horrible decisions that quickly go wrong. It has a tangentially World Cup related plot…
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Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice
4 outta 5 As far as buddy gangster time travel movies go, Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice is unique. The time travel aspect is kooky and nonsensical, but works for the characters’ story. There are a lot of quips from everyone that keeps things light, and yet the emotional bits hit hard. But…
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The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
3 outta 5 Super Mario Galaxy is both a movie that tries too hard and doesn’t try hard enough. The first film was awash in classic Mario content which gave it a nostalgic pep. This one cribs a lot from the more recent games that don’t have as much pop as the first film. This…
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Ready Or Not (2019 review)
4 outta 5 Ready or Not is an extremely messy horror comedy that is insanely madcap, gory, tense yet also very funny from start to finish with an especially great performance by the lead actress. This takes the locked house thriller genre and throws in a bunch of people who really don’t know what they’re…
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Blog: Mini-review – The Bride!
3 outta 5 The Bride! earns bonus points for being incredibly weird. Like so weird at times it gets a bit off putting and incomprehensible as the leads spend a lot of it yelling in undead rage every few minutes. But they’re both interesting actors and more compelling than the various competing subplots and characters…
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Scream 7
4 outta 5 Scream 7 manages to get a lot of mileage out of returning veterans, giving the 30 year series a nostalgia bump. Also, the kills are messy, even by this series standard, featuring a bar setting kill that may stand out as one of the most brutal and craziest in the series. It’s…
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Scream 4 (2011 review)
4 out of 5 The weird, and interesting, part about Scream 4 is that it’s a sequel that is also a remake. It’s also remake where characters know that they’re in a remake. Hell, even one character empathically says to not screw with the original. It has meta-fictional wheels within wheels within meta-fictional wheels that…
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Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie
5 outta 5 Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie is a gloriously absurd film about yearning for stardom, missed opportunities, the weight of history, pranks, skydiving, documentaries, friendship and the validity of Back to the Future. It is a spin-off / continuation of the TV series dating all the way back to a webseries…
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Send Help
4 outta 5 Send Help is a thriller that is darkly funny as it follows two characters going increasingly bonkers. It has a cascading series of unfortunate events as the audience’s sympathies shift over the course of the film. There is a lot of yelling that gets funnier and intense, as the story which seems…
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All You Need is Kill
4 outta 5 All You Need is Kill is an anime adaption of the Japanese comic book which was previously adapted as the 2014 Tom Cruise starring film Edge of Tomorrow. Since it is about alien invasion time loops, it makes sense there would be multiple adaptations of this story. This anime has a very…
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