Category: -Movie Review
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Movie Review – The Naked Gun
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The Naked Gun was absolutely hilarious. Liam Neeson nailed it. I had my doubts, I know Neeson has his skills, but would they pay off playing Frank Drebin Jr.? Yep. His delivery was flawless. I noticed about halfway through the movie that my cheeks were hurting. I realized I was grinning from the beginning. There…
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Movie Review – The Fantastic Four: First Steps
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I think this movie should have been named ‘Fantastic Four: Playing It Safe.’ It’s a good movie, which, with the legacy of the previous F4 movies, is an achievement. But the only thing that stood out to me was the interesting ’50s retro vibe. Characters I like the characters, and I think the story is balanced…
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Movie Review – Eddington
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Eddington has to be the most painfully slow movie I’ve sat through this year. It dragged worse than kids’ feet on the first day of school, and that’s saying something. With a cast featuring Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone, and other heavy hitters, you’d expect cinematic gold. You’d think it would be so riveting…
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Movie Review – I Know What You Did Last Summer
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I’ve been waiting on this movie for a while now. I had high hopes but kept myself from getting too excited since I’m usually disappointed with horror sequels that try to recapture past magic. Not this time. They promised us a great movie and they delivered. I Know What You Did Last Summer 2025 did…
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Movie Review – Superman
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I’ve lost count of how many Superman reboots or origin stories we’ve had over the years. But I can at least say that this Superman movie is uniquely different from all the others. And that’s not nothin’. This might be the first time that the director of a new Superman movie upstaged the actor playing…
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Movie Review – Jurassic World: Rebirth? More like, Jurassic World: Regurgitated
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Ironically, last week I went to see a movie about race cars. (F1, a surprisingly entertaining and well-made movie.) This week I went to see a movie about dinosaurs, but saw a car crash. The Jurassic Park franchise has made a mockery of itself. Jurassic Park: Rebirth brings absolutely nothing new to the franchise or…
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Movie Review – F1: The Movie
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Imagine Top Gun: Maverick but with Formula 1 cars instead of fighter jets and Brad Pitt instead of Tom Cruise. However, minus the nostalgia of TG:M, because F1 isn’t a sequel. A good movie, but not great. Another commonality between F1 and TG:M is director Joseph Kosinski, who also co-wrote. Kosinski probably wasn’t on many people’s radar…
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Movie Review – M3GAN 2.0
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M3GAN 2.0 didn’t quite hit the mark like the first one did. While the original M3GAN felt fresh and genuinely creepy, this sequel struggles to recapture that lightning in a bottle. Instead of building on the psychological horror that made the original work, M3GAN 2.0 leans heavily into action sequences that feel more like a…
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Movie Review – Materialists
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Materialists is fine but not worth theater prices. Dakota Johnson does well with what she’s given, handling the film’s shifts in tone better than the script deserves. Her performance keeps things watchable even when the story drags. The movie works as background entertainment but doesn’t demand your full attention. Save your money and watch this…
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Movie Review – Elio
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This was not Pixar’s best, but admittedly, that is a high bar. The moral of the story is good, not great. My complaint is that this isn’t nearly as compelling to adults, at least to me and my wife, as many of the Pixar movies are. However, there were about a dozen kids in the theater…
