Tag: film
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Blog: 98th Oscars Catch-Up
So with the 98th Oscars upon us, a significant chunk of the nominated films I have either already written reviews for, Sinners, One Battle After Another, Hamnet, or they made it into my Best of 2025 list, Frankenstein, Marty Supreme, and Bugoina. So let’s examine the leftover nominees and some other categories and my Oscar…
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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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Edge of Tomorrow (2014 review)
4 outta 5 Edge of Tomorrow is a fantastically zippy film which is quite an accomplishment since the story loops back in on itself yet finding something new each time. Directed by Doug Liman (Go, The Bourne Identity) it’s a great mash-up of sci-fi, D-Day war movies, and time travel narrative bending. Also if you’ve…
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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
5 outta 5 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is the weirdest entry in the 28 Days/Weeks/Years series, and considering how weird this series gets, that is saying something. This film picks off immediately after 28 Years Later and, even though it is quite connected to the previous film, this has a darker, stranger identity.…
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Anaconda
3 outta 5 Anaconda is a decently funny meta take on the corny 1997 Anaconda film. In this movie the characters have a reverence for the original film and debate if they are making a remake, reboot, spiritual sequel, which signals what this is going to be. The chemistry of the leads are very fun,…
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Best of 2025 Films
Honourable Mentions: KPop Demon Hunters, 28 Years Later, A Minecraft Movie, Thunderbolts*, The Naked Gun, Predator: Badlands, Superman, Black Bag, John Candy: I Like Me, Companion, Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, Hamnet, Avatar: Fire and Ash, The Long Walk 10. Mickey 17 Director Bong Joon Ho (Parasite) provides a sci-fi tale of space travel,…
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