A better Netflix thriller than you may realize. I’m not surprised that the generic shark thriller “Thrash” would make it to Number 1 most streaming movie chart on Netflix a few weeks ago. And I wouldn’t be surprised if the new Charlize Theron vehicle “Apex” would reach the top, but unlike “Thrash,” this one is […]
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Greetings again from the darkness. Well, it’s not exactly a ‘good cop/bad cop’ scenario, since only one of them is a cop – and he’s suspended and out of his territory. It’s also not a traditional ‘Buddy comedy’ since these aren’t buddies, but rather estranged, grudge-holding half-brothers. Still, the premise is admirable, and the casting […]
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From Boogie Nights to There Will Be Blood and now, One Battle After Another, films by Paul Thomas Anderson have defined decades. The anticipation for a new Paul Thomas Anderson film matches the heights of a new Christopher Nolan or Martin Scorsese project. Audiences know the cast of characters’ll entertain them, but […]
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The 2025 film, Novocaine, is one that doesn’t take itself too seriously, clearly, and for that, it’s a blast of a good time at the movie theater. Films are fun when they start with a unique, if outrageous, premise, and just lean into the absurdity with reckless abandon. What more can you ask for?!
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Follows Korean independence activists who launched a daring attack in Harbin against the Japanese to gain their country’s independence. […]
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A brilliant idea to set a ‘warring gangs’ action film in the iconic if long-demolished Kowloon Walled City, but this comic book adaptation feels numbingly empty with its stylistic excesses a tonal mismatch with the more sobering space of marginality and exploitation.
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It’s been two years since her husband passed away and Thelma Post (June Squibb) is adjusting to her new reality. She’s 93 years old and fiercely independent. While Thelma spends most of her days home alone ,she keeps in frequent contact with her grandson Daniel (Fred Hechinger) and her daughter Gail (Parker Posey). One day […]
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The pacing retreats to more of a family drama than a rocket of espionage intrigue but Bridges and Lithgow make a helluva duo – even if they are getting too old for this shit.
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Director: Scott Beck, Bryan Woods Cast: Adam Driver, Ariana Greenblatt Review Author: Tony Synopsis: After crash-landing on prehistoric Earth, only two survivors must navigate the hostile terrain and fend off vicious creatures to ensure their survival. I’ve always had a soft spot for schlock in my genre films, so when Hollywood decides to splurge on a B-movie […]
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The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024) on Amazon is a $60 million budget action-comedy film directed by Guy Ritchie which bombed at the box office but is doing rather well on streaming. The film is based on the book Churchill’s Secret Warriors: The Explosive True Story of the Special Forces Desperadoes of WWII by Damien […]
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With China’s heavy hand of censorship now firmly on the neck of the Hong Kong film industry, our filmmakers have learned they must toe the line if they wish to secure both funding and distribution for their projects. Gone are the days when corrupt police or government officials feature prominently in local stories because, we […]
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In the world of filmmaking, the term “remake” usually comes up as a “double edge” sword within its undertaking and overall execution. For the good part, it allows filmmakers to revisit an old property and reinvent for a modern audiences offering up a new […]
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It’s basically Heart of Darkness but with a really long road instead of a river. Or Apocalypse Now, if you’re unfamiliar with the above. But it’s not an adaptation, just quite inspired by. Now if we said every movie that consisted of a long journey in war time, we could get silly and say everything […]
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A wildly entertaining, gory action-horror-comedy where Nicolas Cage as Dracula is everything you could have imagined. Renfield may seem like the the latest vampire offering from Hollywood, but it’s much more than that. Showcasing a new take on the character of Count Dracula (Nicolas Cage) and his devoted assistant/familiar R. M. Renfield (Nicholas Hoult), this comedy-horror […]
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A CLASSIC (YET IMPERFECT) “ONE MAN ARMY” FLICK Within the action film genre, there lies a storied tradition of narrative storytelling that derives from the classic (yet always beloved) “one man army” yarn. There have been many of these films across the many decades of action cinematic history, yet they all roughly remain the […]
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Adam Brannon reviews the 2024 remake of Road House, by director Doug Liman. But is it any good?
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‘Only those who have been at sea can grasp the enormousness of the world,’ we’re told during Lee Tamahori’s plush historical epic of deadly muskets and Christianity on the rocks; even a 21st century land-lubber can understand the wrongs of imperialism. We’re out and about in 1830, in and around the Tasmanian Sea, where there’s […]
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Kevin says Twisters kinda rocks!
Another reboot is roaring into theaters this weekend.
What we get here is a solid action series that hits all the beats it needs to do, not revolutionary, but still solid. Disclosure – I paid for the Amazon Prime subscription that viewed this series. Reacher Review – When I first heard there would be a new Reacher series, my first impressions […]
I have the fondest memories of watching Top Gun back in 1986. It was a great year, I was in my second year in Junior College and had no idea what I wanted to do with my life. I was just living in the moment and hanging around with friends every chance I got. My […]
