This year started off rocky for me, movie-wise, but I’ve suddenly been inundated with a series of pleasant surprises. The Super Mario Bros. Movie is the latest one, something I’d figured would be well-made and good for what it is, but not of interest to me. As far as video games go, I’ve left ...
Read MoreThis March brought the latest attempt to bring the world’s biggest roleplaying game to the big screen. When I saw the first trailers for Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, I thought they looked good, but I was still a little nervous. I’m aware of several Dungeons & Dragon...
Read MoreThe tagline for John Wick: Chapter 4 should have been “Go big or go home.” This is a big movie, certainly the biggest in a series that keeps getting bigger. It has the longest running time yet for a John Wick film at almost three hours. But unlike the lumbering behemoths in the Fast and …...
Read MoreAnother year, another DC movie review from yours truly. When I say that I have zero problems with this film, I genuinely mean that. “But Tuggs!” you’ll say, “what about the FUN (I imagine you’ll hiss this word, like that little evil emoji with the horns and frowny face,...
Read More65 feels like someone involved – or perhaps everyone – had no faith in it. It’s a rushed, disjointed, anorexic outline of what could have been a good, or even great, sci-fi adventure. It mostly looks good, and Adam Driver and Ariana Greenblatt wring what they can out of the scraps they’re af...
Read MoreThe erroneously titled Scream VI (no Sidney Prescott, no Scream) made it to theaters barely a year after its predecessor, the obnoxiously titled Scream (not to be confused with Scream; sometimes, I feel like they want us to hate them), striking while the iron is hot in capitalizing on an inexplicabl...
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