Category: Reviews

REVIEW: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023)

Since I first heard about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, I’ve had mixed feelings. The trailers showcased a vibrant and unique animation style, and I liked the repartee between the brothers. However, April’s re-design seemed an obvious and unnecessary departure. I’m a big fan of t...

REVIEW: Meg 2: The Trench (2023)

Meg 2: The Trench is the kind of movie that knows its limitations but tries to cover them up rather than make the most of them. The sequel to 2018’s The Meg, which I didn’t like, is better than its predecessor, but not by much; a schlocky creature feature buried under bland characters with confu...

REVIEW: Haunted Mansion (2023)

I saw Haunted Mansion this weekend. Coming out a week after “Barbenheimer,” I didn’t expect anything from this film, and I don’t think anyone else did, either. Pirates of the Caribbean notwithstanding, Disney’s theme park adaptations don’t tend to do well finan...

REVIEW: Secret Invasion: Season 1, Episode 6, “Home”

“Home” is the kind of finale I probably should have expected from Secret Invasion. Like seemingly all of the Marvel Disney+ shows, it started with a lot of promise and devolved into a grating screed on left-wing politics that got bogged down in a mess of plots and subplots and diminished a great...

REVIEW: Barbie (2023)

This week saw the release of the highly-anticipated Barbie. The world’s most famous and iconic fashion doll hit the market in 1959 and changed the toy industry forever. I loved Barbies as a kid, and I still do. I collect dolls, and when this movie was announced, I was initially very skeptical....

REVIEW: Sound of Freedom (2023)

Sound of Freedom is kicking up a big political stir, and while I certainly have my opinions on that score and whether this is an important film to see for social reasons, I’m not going to get into it here. This is about the movie itself, which is the only fair way to appraise any …

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