Posted September 30, 2026in Film Review
The cleverly named law firm of Avery, Jones and Maltese (after legends Tex Avery, Chuck Jones and Michael Maltese) tells you right away how much affection is baked into this merrie melody. It’s a small miracle “Coyote vs. ACME” exists. Warner Bros. shelved the finished film as a tax write-off,
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Posted September 02, 2026in Film Review
Netflix’s “Facing El Chapo” (original title “La Captura”) makes an unusual bet: Instead of building its story around Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, it turns the spotlight on two ordinary federal officers who stumble into the biggest arrest of their careers. Director Chava Cartas opens with Officer Arturo Carmona (Alfonso Herrera),
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Posted August 05, 2026in Film Review
Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” places audiences alongside Odysseus and his exhausted crew from its opening moments. You do not simply watch their voyage — you feel it. Every hard-earned victory comes with another loss. Every clever escape demands another sacrifice. When Odysseus begins questioning the cost of every decision he
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Posted July 01, 2026in Film Review
When Pixar announced “Toy Story 5,” split feelings could be felt amongst the Millennials who grew up alongside Andy’s plastic companions. “Toy Story 3” (2010) was perfect. A tear-jerking trilogy closer that made adults ugly cry more than their kids. We watched as our beloved friends accepted the inevitable over
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Posted June 03, 2026in Film Review
When the “Mortal Kombat” big-screen reboot bludgeoned its way into the mainstream back in 2021, it carried the weight of a pandemic-weary audience looking for pure, unadulterated escapism. While it offered flashy choreography and a highly anticipated dose of R-rated gore, it ultimately stumbled over its own self-serious tone, an
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Posted May 06, 2026in Film Review
Back in 1994, director Peter Farrelly made “Dumb and Dumber,” a willfully stupid, aggressively crude but ultimately lovable comic yarn. With his latest Prime Video offering, “Balls Up,” Farrelly attempts to conjure that same magic, but the result has a generic, streaming-ready sheen that feels like the first draft of a
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Posted April 01, 2026in Film Review
With the likes of “GOAT,” “Zootopia 2” and the ongoing “Into the Spider-Verse” franchise, kids are eating good when it comes to feature-length animation. And “Hoppers” is no different, giving the kind of movie you enjoy from the first frame to the final credit. It reaches deep into Pixar’s established
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Posted March 04, 2026in Film Review
When was the last time a studio movie made you genuinely uncomfortable? Not in a jump-scare or gore-centric way, but in a “wait, did they just go there?” way that lingers in your brain for days? Gore Verbinski’s “Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die” poses that question repeatedly, and the
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Posted February 04, 2026in Film Review
In the shadowy glow of Joe Carnahan’s “The Rip,” the most dangerous criminals are not the cartel operatives lurking off-screen but the badges meant to protect and serve. This Netflix thriller, “inspired by true events” within the Miami Police Department, is a masterfully constructed pressure cooker of paranoia, a film
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Posted December 31, 2025in Film Review
The perfect whodunit doesn’t exist. Or, does it? Writer and director Rian Johnson challenges that age-old question with his latest film, “Wake Up Dead Man,” and gives audiences a clever, unconvoluted caper that is as intellectually satisfying as it is wildly entertaining and proves the “Knives Out” series is far
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