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‘Bad Times At The El Royale’ Review: A Throwback Film To A Throwback Era

4.0

out of 5

October 15, 2018

Bad Times at the El Royale is a movie experience that they just don't make anymore. Drew Goddard's follow up to the sublime The Cabin in the Woods is a throwback film to end all throwback films, telling a story that… Read More

4.0

out of 5

‘A Star Is Born’ Review: A Star IS Born, Indeed

4.8

out of 5

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October 2, 2018

There's a reason why the film, A Star Is Born, is remade every 20-30 years or so. This is a timeless tale that is relevant, no matter when it's told. Fredrick March and Janet Gaynor told the story in 1937,… Read More

4.8

out of 5

‘White Boy Rick’ Review: The American Dream

3.8

out of 5

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September 13, 2018

The movies have long since portrayed the American dream as something attainable through luck, skill, or by force. Crime films that show the dream realized have always been popular, films such as The Godfather and Scarface. But when the dream… Read More

3.8

out of 5

‘Lizzie’ Review: Like A Hatchet To The Face

3.5

out of 5

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September 12, 2018

I've been obsessed with the legend of Lizzie Borden for most of my life. As a young boy, I stumbled across images taken from the scene of the crime, of Lizzie Borden's father and step mother hacked to death by… Read More

3.5

out of 5

‘The Nun’ Review: Unanswered Prayers

3.5

out of 5

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September 7, 2018

I love the films of the "Conjuring Universe." With the true life stories from Ed and Lorraine Warren serving as a backdrop, these films have scared and thrilled audiences and critics alike for the better part of this decade and… Read More

3.5

out of 5

‘The Happytime Murders’ Review: Bad Puppets

3.2

out of 5

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August 24, 2018

The Happytime Murders could have been so much more. The very idea -- a world where puppets and humans live together, and a hard boiled ex-cop-turned PI has to solve a case which leads into a larger murder investigation --… Read More

3.2

out of 5

‘Teen Titans Go! To The Movies’ Review: Every Hero Needs A Movie

4.2

out of 5

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July 27, 2018

I admit that I'm not a huge fan of the Teen Titans Go! TV series. While I did enjoy the first iteration of the Teen Titans cartoon on Cartoon Network back in 2003, the sudden change of art direction and… Read More

4.2

out of 5

‘Hot Summer Nights’ Review: Dealing Weed, Heat, And Hurricanes

4.2

out of 5

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July 26, 2018

The new film Hot Summer Nights is supposedly based off a true story -- or parts of it are true, at least -- as told by someone who witnessed it all. The narrator, a nameless kid in the small Massachusetts… Read More

4.2

out of 5

‘Mission: Impossible – Fallout’ Review: Action, Action, And More Action

4.8

out of 5

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July 25, 2018

The most interesting thing about Mission: Impossible - Fallout, the sixth film in the Mission: Impossible film franchise, is that the MacGuffin here is as generic as you can get. A terrorist organization, the Apostles -- an off-shoot from the Rogue… Read More

4.8

out of 5

‘Ant-Man And The Wasp’ Review: Twice The Heroes, Twice The Fun

4.6

out of 5

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July 2, 2018

Marvel Studios has done so many things right, and one big feather in their cap has always been the casting of their iconic characters for the big screen. Starting with Robert Downey, Jr. as Tony Stark/Iron Man, the studio has… Read More

4.6

out of 5