Category: -Movie Review
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Movie Review – Escape Room: Tournament of Champions
If you enjoyed the first Escape Room—I did—then I’m sure you’ll enjoy this sequel because it’s really a continuation of the first movie. Both movies are so short the two of them together add up to one properly long movie. I wish I had rewatched the first Escape Room prior to seeing the follow-up. But,…
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Indie Movie Review – Lillith
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Lillith took me a bit by surprise. I think I’ve made it quite clear that I’m not normally a horror fan. I don’t automatically like films that are full of special effects giving the appearance of someone throwing a hand grenade in a butcher’s offal bin. Similarly, I don’t really believe in the whole paranormal/supernatural…
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Movie Review – Black Widow
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Watching an MCU movie in a packed theater again. Just like old times. We wore our masks throughout the movie (COVID Delta variant ain’t no joke.) so it’s not all back to normal, but good enough for the time being. Was the movie worth the year-long wait? Hard to say, but it definitely didn’t disappoint.…
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Movie Review – Black Widow
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Black Widow finally here! It was originally meant for release in May 2020 but that’s not what I mean. The first smoldering of the creative flame started in April 2004 when Lionsgate started developing a Black Widow film with David Hayter attached to write and direct following his work on X-Men; he even named his…
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Movie Review – The Forever Purge
Color me surprised. I was dreading this movie for months. The first Purge movie was pretty good. I liked the new concept and it hadn’t been done before. Then they killed it for me. Every Purge movie after the first went downhill. They redeemed themselves with The Forever Purge. I actually enjoyed it. They definitely…
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Movie Review – The Boss Baby: Family Business
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The Boss Baby: Family Business is, as you probably expected, meant for young children. There’s enough wild antics to appeal to pre-schoolers and two, simple to follow, plots. One about brotherhood. The other about self-confidence. Both of which are good lessons for pre-teens. This is far from Pixar-good, but it’s not bad. It pretty much…
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Indie Movie Review – Blackstock Boneyard
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Blackstock Boneyard, or Rightful as it was originally called, is the story of two landowners who were wrongly accused of robbery, rape, and murder. In order to get a fair trial, they have to sell their land. Actually, they had to sell all their assets to get any sort of a trial as they were Black…
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Classic Movie Rewatch – Raiders Of The Lost Ark after 40 years
What links a toilet cistern, fingering a cheese casserole, a Honda Civic rolling down a gravel path, whacking a pile of leather jackets with a baseball bat, and R2-D2? They’re all sound effects used during the production of Raiders Of The Lost Ark. The toilet cistern is the sound of the lid of the Ark of…
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Movie Review – F9 (The Fast & the Furious)
What can you say? The F&F movies follow a formula about family and trust and then one-upping the action from the previous installment. It’s been a while since I saw the previous F&F movie—Fate of the Furious—but my recollection was that the action in that movie was better than this one. I think they tried…
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Movie Review – The House Next Door
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The House Next Door was a total bummer. It sucked, get it? …that was a vampire reference. I was so disappointed that with such an awesome cast the movie was tedious and too long. I read quite a few reviews on this movie and they are all pretty much the same. Save your money and…
