Category: -Movie Review
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Movie Review – The Green Knight
The Green Knight is thick with symbolism but thin on understanding. At least that’s how I see it because I have no clue what I’m supposed to get out of it. I wish Joseph Campbell was around to review this movie and critique the symbolism. If the director were to release an annotated version of…
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Movie Review – Stillwater
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Stillwater moves at a snail’s pace. They did that for a reason. You are slowly led into Bill’s (Matt Damon) life as the rest of the movie emerged. I read a bunch of reviews before seeing it and have to say I disagree. They were mostly negative and others trashed the movie. I found it…
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Movie Review – Jungle Cruise
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I don’t know about you, but Jungle Cruise reminds me an awful lot of Disney’s other theme park movie inspiration: Pirates of the Caribbean. I distinctly remember the first time I saw a movie trailer for Pirates and I thought to myself: OMG, you can’t be serious. This is going to suck. And then we…
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Movie Review – Old
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M. Night Shyamalan has proven himself as a Hollywood God. He brought us stellar films like The Sixth Sense and Signs and blew our minds. He brought us The Village and solidified himself as my favorite director in the business. Then something happened and he released Lady In The Water. I couldn’t figure out if…
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Movie Review – Snake Eyes
The first third of Snake Eyes had the potential to be a mediocre movie. But in the middle third, it went downhill quickly. There was hope that the action-packed final third would make up for it, but no. It was even worse. Any good action shots were in the movie trailer, which is usually a…
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Movie Review – Space Jam: A New Legacy
Space Jam: A New Legacy is exactly as cheesy as you might expect; but it also pokes fun of itself, and LeBron, in a really charming way. LeBron is… Well he’s LeBron. There weren’t any cringe-worthy moments you might expect from a superstar athlete trying to crossover into acting. Crossover, see what I did there?…
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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…
