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Movie Review – Maggie Moore(s) (2023)

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Maggie Moore(s), 2023 Directed by John Slattery Starring Jon Hamm, Tina Fey, Micah Stock, Nick Mohammed, Happy Anderson, Christopher Denham, Mary Holland, Louisa Krause, Nicholas Azarian, Allison Dunbar, Tate Ellington, Bobbi Kitten, Oona Roche, Peter Diseth, Richard Lippert, Derek Basco, and Jodi Lynn Thomas. SYNOPSIS: Maggie Moore(s) takes place in a dusty desert town where […]

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2 Episode 1 Review – ‘The Broken Circle’

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Chris Connor reviews the season 2 premiere of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds…. There has been no shortage of Star Trek content in recent years from the Chris Pine-led films depicting alternate versions of the adventures of Kirk and Spock to Star Trek: Discovery (which originally was set in the lead-up to the Original Series […]

Movie Review – Watcher (2022)

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Watcher, 2022. Directed by Chloe Okuno. Starring Maika Monroe, Karl Glusman, and Burn Gorman. SYNOPSIS: A young woman moves into a new apartment with her fiancé, only to be tormented by the feeling that she is being stalked by an unseen watcher in an adjacent building. There’s perhaps less of a general appreciation than there […]

Movie Review – Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023)

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Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, 2023. Directed by Stephen Caple Jr. Starring Anthony Ramos, Dominique Fishback, Luna Lauren Velez, Dean Scott Vazquez, Tobe Nwigwe, Peter Cullen, Ron Perlman, Peter Dinklage, Michelle Yeoh, Liza Koshy, John DiMaggio, David Sobolov, Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, Pete Davidson, Cristo Fernández, Tongayi Chirisa, Colman Domingo, and Michael Kelly. SYNOPSIS: During the […]

Movie Review – Flamin’ Hot (2023)

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Flamin’ Hot, 2023. Directed by Eva Longoria. Starring Jesse Garcia, Annie Gonzalez, Dennis Haysbert, Matt Walsh, Tony Shalhoub, Bobby Soto, Pepe Serna, Emilio Rivera, Vanessa Martinez, Jimmy Gonzales, Eric Marq, Fabian Alomar, and Hunter Jones. SYNOPSIS: Flamin’ Hot is the story of Richard Montañez, the Frito Lay janitor who channeled his Mexican American heritage and […]

Movie Review – Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023)

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Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, 2023. Directed by Stephen Caple Jr. Starring Anthony Ramos, Dominique Fishback, Luna Lauren Velez, Dean Scott Vazquez, Tobe Nwigwe, Peter Cullen, Ron Perlman, Peter Dinklage, Michelle Yeoh, Liza Koshy, John DiMaggio, David Sobolov, Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, Pete Davidson, Cristo Fernández, Tongayi Chirisa, Colman Domingo, and Michael Kelly. SYNOPSIS: During the […]

Superman & Lois Season 3 Episode 11 Review – ‘Complications’

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Ricky Church reviews the eleventh episode of Superman & Lois season 3… Two big storylines reached their climax in the latest Superman & Lois as the Mannheims tried to make an escape out of Metropolis while Lois underwent her surgery. It was a significant episode for its characters, though a little odd given that there are two […]

Movie Review – Stars at Noon (2022)

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Stars at Noon, 2022. Directed by Claire Denis. Starring Margaret Qualley, Joe Alwyn, Benny Safdie, John C. Reilly, Danny Ramirez, Nick Romano, Robin Durán, Stephan Proaño, Héctor Moreno, Sebastian Donoso, and Monica Bartholomew. SYNOPSIS: In present-day Nicaragua, a headstrong American journalist and a mysterious English businessman strike up a romance as they become embroiled in […]

Movie Review – Old Man (2022)

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Old Man, 2022. Directed by Lucky McKee. Starring Stephen Lang, Marc Senter, Patch Darragh, and Liana Wright-Mark. SYNOPSIS: When a lost hiker stumbles upon an erratic old man living in the woods, he could never have imagined the nightmare that awaits. An old man is jolted awake agape, presumably by a nightmare. That’s how director […]

Movie Review – Mending the Line (2023)

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Mending the Line, 2023. Directed by Joshua Caldwell. Starring Brian Cox, Sinqua Walls, Perry Mattfeld, Patricia Heaton, Wes Studi, Irene Bedard, Julian Works, Chris Galust, Tristan Thompson, Pressly Coker, Michaela Sasner, Melanie Rae Wendt, Gabriel Clark, Jenna Ciralli, Scott McCauley, Phaedra Nielson, and Josef Patterson. SYNOPSIS: A Marine wounded in Afghanistan is sent to a […]