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Movie Review – Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (2022)

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Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths, 2022.Directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu. Starring Daniel Giménez Cacho, Griselda Siciliani, Ximena Lamadrid, Íker Sánchez Solano, Grantham Coleman, Andrés Almeida, Omar Leyva, Edison Ruiz, Mar Carrera, Grace Shen, Daniel Damuzi, Misha Arias De La Cantolla, and Jorge Gidi.SYNOPSIS:An acclaimed journalist-turned-documentarian goes on an oneiric introspective journey to […]

Movie Review – The Fabelmans (2022)

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The Fabelmans, 2022.Directed by Steven Spielberg. Starring Gabriel LaBelle, Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, Seth Rogen, Judd Hirsch, Jeannie Berlin, Julia Butters, Robin Bartlett, Keeley Karsten and Sophia Kopera.SYNOPSIS:Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, from age seven to eighteen, a young man named Sammy Fabelman discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the […]

Movie Review – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)

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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, 2022.Directed by Ryan Coogler. Starring Letitia Wright, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Winston Duke, Dominique Thorne, Florence Kasumba, Michaela Coel, Tenoch Huerta, Martin Freeman, Angela Bassett, Mabel Cadena, Alex Livinalli, Danny Sapani, and Lake Bell.SYNOPSIS:The people of Wakanda fight to protect their home from intervening world powers as they mourn the death […]

4K Ultra HD Review – Reservoir Dogs (1992)

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Reservoir Dogs, 1992.Directed by Quentin Tarantino. Starring Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Steve Buscemi, Quentin Tarantino, Chris Penn, Eddie Bunker, Lawrence Tierney, and Kirk Baltz.SYNOPSIS:Quentin Tarantino’s sensational debut feature gets a 4K UHD makeover for its 30th anniversary.As the years tick by, the tedious inevitability of time dictates that the things we hold dear […]

Movie Review – My Father’s Dragon (2022)

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My Father’s Dragon, 2022.Directed by Nora Twomey. Featuring the voice talents of Jacob Tremblay, Gaten Matarazzo, Golshifteh Farahani, Dianne Wiest, Rita Moreno, Chris O’Dowd, Judy Greer, Alan Cumming, Yara Shahidi, Jackie Earle Haley, Mary Kay Place, Leighton Meester, Spence Moore II, Adam Brody, Charlyne Yi, Maggie Lincoln, Whoopi Goldberg, and Ian McShane.SYNOPSIS:Elmer Elevator searches for […]

Movie Review – Sam & Kate (2022)

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Sam & Kate, 2022.Written and Directed by Darren Le Gallo. Starring Jake Hoffman, Schuyler Fisk, Sissy Spacek, Dustin Hoffman, Henry Thomas, Elizabeth Faith Ludlow, Dylan McNamara, Elizabeth Becka, Larry Larson, DeMorris Stroud, and Tyler Labine.SYNOPSIS:Bill is an ailing larger-than-life father being taken care of by his son Sam, who has returned home to care for […]

Video Review – The Good & Bad of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

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EJ Moreno with a video review of Marvel’s Black Panther sequel…Marvel Studios closes out this year in comic book movies with Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. The film has a lot of pressure on it, and can it live up to expectations? Director Ryan Coogler attempts and almost perfects the Marvel formula. Sadly, the strange pacing, messy […]

Star Wars: Andor Episode 10 Review – ‘One Way Out’

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Chris Connor reviews the tenth episode of Star Wars: Andor…Andor has built a huge degree of tension and stakes through its episodic storytelling, allowing the various threads to intertwine and feel a key part of the series. Here in the tenth episode ‘One Way Out’, the thread of the past two episodes of the prison […]

Movie Review – Mandrake (2022)

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Mandrake, 2022.Directed by Lynne Davison. Starring Dierdre Mullins, Derbhle Crotty, Paul Kennedy, Seamus O’Hara, Nigel O’Neill, and Ian Beattie.SYNOPSIS:A probation officer is tasked with rehabilitating a notorious criminal, thrust back into society after twenty years in prison.Folk horror is a unique subgenre of horror that has spewed forth its fair share of engrossing films over […]

Movie Review – Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)

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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, 2022Directed by Rian Johnson Starring Daniel Craig, Edward Norton, Janelle Monáe, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr., Jessica Henwick, Madelyn Cline, Kate Hudson and Dave Bautista.SYNOPSISYou’re invited to put the pieces together. In the follow-up to Rian Johnson’s Knives Out, Detective Benoit Blanc travels to Greece to peel back the […]