Category: Movie Reviews
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The Marvels
4 outta 5 The Marvels is a fun and zippy movie, which is a bonus as superhero movies lately have been succumbing to bloat, but at an hour and forty-five minutes this is one of the shortest Marvel Cinematic Universe movies. While it may seem like “MCU homework”, or even worse as a plus sized…
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Five Nights at Freddy’s
3 outta 5 Five Nights at Freddy’s is a strange film, and not only because it’s primarily concerned about killer animatronic mascots going on a slasher spree. The strange thing is that for a horror slasher absurdist film, it seems to be contradicting itself on what tone it wants. There’s an intense character drama about…
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Old Dads
3 outta 5 Co-written, directed and starring Bill Burr, Old Dads seems to be about as deep a dive into Burr’s worldview as one could get. It is repeatedly claiming modern society is a bunch of weak wristed folks and only the sage-like wisdom of a bitter Generation X’er can say the truth. Admittedly, Old…
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Mr. Dressup: The Magic of Make-Believe
4 outta 5 Mr. Dressup: The Magic of Make-Believe is a heartfelt documentary about a heartfelt Canadian children’s entertainer. Canadian childhood memories may get entangled in which was Mr. Dressup and which was Mr. Rogers, but it turns out they worked together in their early years on CBC. It’s like an Avengers style team up…
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Totally Killer
4 outta 5 Totally Killer is definitely a unique film, considering there aren’t a huge amount of slasher/ comedy/ horror time/ travel movies. The influence of Back to the Future is readily apparent because the main character keeps mentioning it, along with slasher standards like Scream and Halloween. The winning performance by the lead makes…
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Appendage
3 outta 5 Appendage is an interesting body horror film that diverts a bit into human relationship melodrama and angsty moments between a daughter and mother, but there’s an icky monster movie at its core. The description on the DisneyPlus app calls it a “horror comedy” but there really isn’t a lot of comedy here,…
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The Creator
5 outta 5 The Creator is an excellent sci-fi film that has epic scope, emotionally and visually. Director and co-writer Gareth Edwards is remixing some thematic moments from his previous film, Rogue One, but that’s fine. It is sort of a Rogue One 2.0 war film combined with a different version of his first film,…
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Expend4bles
2 outta 5 Expend4bles is the fourth movie in the franchise, as if the annoyingly nonsensically placed number 4 in the middle of the world Expendables wasn’t enough to clue you in. The series has always been about over the hill action stars going for one final ride, with scattershot results. The 2nd movie is…
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The Expendables 3 (’14 review)
2 outta 5 If measuring by combined weight of the cast, The Expendables 3 is the biggest entry in the franchise, however bigger does not mean better. The first Expendables is a decent ’80s throwback men on a mission flick and the second is an excellently paced, self-aware piece of pop action cinema. Unfortunately, this…
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The Expendables 2 (’12 review)
4 outta 5 The problem with the original Expendables, Sylvester Stallone’s mad genius idea of mashing up post-iconic action movie stars, is that it promised a bit too much and also sagged a bit too much. Expendables 2 manages to be much zipper, move along at a much brisker clip, have better action and spread…
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