Category: Movie Reviews
REVIEW: Moana 2 (2024)
One thing about me is that I love Disney movies most of the time. 2016’s Moana was exceptional even in the context of Disney movies, a particularly gorgeous, funny, and touching film, and the soundtrack rocks. Disney sequels make me nervous at the best of times, but Moana 2 started out as a TV ser...
Read MoreREVIEW: Wicked: Part One (2024)
Wicked: Part One is an adaptation of the first act of Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman’s 2003 stage musical, which is, for its part, based on Gregory Maguire’s 1995 novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. Maguire’s novel is a revisionist take on Frank L. Baum’s O...
Read MoreREVIEW: Gladiator II (2024)
Gladiator II falls in the middle of the unnecessary sequel spectrum. It’s nowhere near as good as Gladiator, if that even needs to be said, and it doesn’t add anything to an already complete and satisfying narrative. But it’s not a complete waste of time, either; it has some decent battle sce...
Read MoreREVIEW: Red One (2024)
Red One is like a Christmas present you’re convinced will be a pair of socks or a novelty shirt or something else lame, but it ends up being something pretty cool. It wasn’t on your list, and it’ll probably go in the closet before long, but you’ll have fun with it and maybe even dig it &hel...
Read MoreREVIEW: 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...
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