Category: Movie Reviews
REVIEW: Venom: The Last Dance (2024)
In anticipation of reviewing Venom: The Last Dance, I finally watched the first two films in the series over the last couple of days. So, I’ll certainly say The Last Dance is the best of the three, but that’s partly because the first two are awful (especially Let There Be Carnage; talk about a ...
Read MoreREVIEW: Megalopolis (2024)
I really, really, really wanted to love Megalopolis. I’ve written a couple of times about how disgusted I was with the entertainment media’s attempts to ruin the movie and director Francis Ford Coppola, including manufacturing sexual abuse allegations denied even by the supposed victim. This wa...
Read MoreREVIEW: Saturday Night (2024)
I love Saturday Night for many reasons, but one is that it’s the return of the Jason Reitman I missed while he was making Li’l Ghostbusters movies. This is the guy who made a name for himself independent of his legendary father, once again choosing a subject for which he has real passion, one w...
Read MoreREVIEW: Joker: Folie à Deux (2024)
Joker: Folie à Deux is a lot of things – a psychological drama, a legal thriller, a musical, a love story, an extension of its predecessor’s indictment of society, a comic book movie – but above all, it’s endlessly fascinating, and like Joker, it keeps you wondering what will happen next....
Read MoreREVIEW: The Wild Robot (2024)
When I first saw a trailer for The Wild Robot, I was pretty sure the film would make me cry. DreamWorks has been upping the quality and versatility of its animation lately, and more importantly, this is the kind of story that always hits home. Roz, the robot (Lupita N’yongo), saying, “I don’t ...
Read MoreREVIEW: The 4:30 Movie (2024)
The 4:30 Movie is Kevin Smith’s slice-of-life teen flick mixed with 80s nostalgia, an ode to a simpler time when people lined up to go to a movie theater that wasn’t owned by a mega-chain, spent the day sneaking from theater to theater, and made plans with their friends – and, hopefully, a gi...
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