Category: Netflix
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Atlas
3 outta 5 Atlas is a film that owes so much to James Cameron’s sci-fi films of Aliens, Avatar and Terminator that he should have probably gotten a “Based On” credit. Star Jennifer Lopez has a resume that is particularly heavy on romantic films, where the isolated lead has to learn to connect with their…
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Unfrosted
3 outta 5 Unfrosted is a pretty funny movie if one can tolerate juvenile absurdity permeating the entire experience. This isn’t exactly a hard-hitting parody or even close to approaching a “real life” story. In the late seasons of Seinfeld, things took a bit of a turn into the more absurdist and that continues here…
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Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver
3 outta 5 Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver continues writer/director Zack Snyder’s quasi-Star Wars sci-fi epic. It’s not a conclusion because the closing minutes lay out mandatory sequel bait for yet another installment. As often happens in Snyder’s movies, there are bundles of exposition as characters state their backstory and their exact current…
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Rebel Moon: Part 1 – A Child of Fire
3 outta 5 Director Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon: Part 1 – A Child of Fire is a dystopian sci-fi opera that feels about as Zack Snyder-y as one could imagine. As Snyder has had the idea for years, and once pitched it as a Star Wars movie to Lucasfilm, there is a lot of Star…
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The Killer
4 outta 5 The Killer, the latest film by auteur director David Fincher, really likes to show the, oftentimes mundane, process of an assassin for hire. Which means a lot of checking into airports under a false alias, ditching evidence in garbage disposals and glowering. This is broken up by incredibly quick and nasty bursts…
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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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You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah
4 outta 5 You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah is another of Adam Sandler’s various Netflix movies, but he isn’t the star, his kids are. There has been a lot of discourse online about Nepo Babies in cinema, and while having Sandler’s family in a movie he produced isn’t a selling point,…
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Heart of Stone
3 outta 5 Since EON productions is taking its sweet time to make another Bond movie, there’s a few off-brand alternatives like on Netflix with Heart of Stone. It sort of hits a lot of Bond movie points; there’s a world threatening device, a couple of shifting allegiances, an extended pre-credits action scene, a title…
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Blog: Get In the Robot – Evaneglion Watching
My past few months has been a bit of anime binge, mostly supplied by Netflix, starting with Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (which was great) and then into Arcane: League of Legends (also great but maybe not technically anime but it did win Best Animated Program in 2021 beating out some seriously good competition). Then the big watch…
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They Cloned Tyrone
4 outta 5 They Cloned Tyrone is a sci-fi horror comedy mash up that, much like the title implies, is made up of components from sci-fi movies that came before but ends up as something unique. The performances are all good, especially by Jamie Foxx playing a pimp with flair as he drops in well…
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