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Movie Review – East of Wall (2025)

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East of Wall, 2025. Written and Directed by Kate Beecroft. Starring Tabatha Zimiga, Porshia Zimiga, Scoot McNairy, Jennifer Ehle, Jesse Thorson, Chancey Ryder Witt, Clay Pateneaude, Leanna Shumpert, Brynn Darling, Wyatt Mansfield, Stetson Neumann, Traden Lockwood, Don Gummer Garnier, Renee Mousseaux, Brett Fly Sr., Ryan Caraway, Haley Strode, Lori Ann Reed, Amy Shedeed, Angela Heinze, […]

Movie Review – My Mother’s Wedding (2025)

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My Mother’s Wedding, 2025. Directed by Kristin Scott Thomas. Starring Scarlett Johansson, Sienna Miller, Emily Beecham, Kristin Scott Thomas, Freida Pinto, Mark Stanley, Joshua McGuire, Samson Kayo, Thibault de Montalembert, Sindhu Vee, James Fleet, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Ian Dunnett Jnr, and Giulio Berruti. SYNOPSIS: Three sisters return to their home for the third wedding of their […]

Movie Review – Freakier Friday (2025)

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Freakier Friday, 2025. Directed by Nisha Ganatra. Starring Lindsay Lohan, Jamie Lee Curtis, Julia Butters, Sophia Hammons, Mark Harmon, Manny Jacinto, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Christina Vidal, Haley Hudson, Chad Michael Murray, Lucille Soong, Rosalind Chao, Vanessa Bayer, Jordan E. Cooper, Stephen Tobolowsky, Chloe Fineman, Elaine Hendrix. SYNOPSIS: 22 years after Tess and Anna endured an identity […]

Movie Review – Sketch (2025)

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Sketch, 2025. Written and Directed by Seth Worley. Starring Tony Hale, D’Arcy Carden, Bianca Belle, Kue Lawrence, Kalon Cox, Jaxen Kenner, Genesis Rose Brown, Randa Newman, Allie McCulloch, Nadia Benavides, Dajanae Cole, Josh Inocalla, and Leigha Hancock. SYNOPSIS: When a young girl’s sketchbook falls into a strange pond, her drawings come to life-chaotic, real and […]

Movie Review – The Pickup (2025)

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The Pickup, 2025. Directed by Tim Story. Starring Eddie Murphy, Pete Davidson, Keke Palmer, Eva Longoria, Marshawn Lynch, Joe Anoa’i, Andrew Dice Clay, Ismael Cruz Cordova, Jack Kesy, Jef Holbrook, and Ray Murphy Jr. SYNOPSIS: A routine cash pickup turns into a deadly pursuit when two mismatched armored truck drivers are ambushed by ruthless criminals […]

Movie Review – Descendent (2025)

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Descendent, 2025. Written and Directed by Peter Cilella Starring Ross Marquand, Sarah Bolger, Susan Wilder, Charlene Amoia, Dan O’Brien, Brandon Scott, Alexandra Barreto, Alex Ruiz, Clare Cooney, Aisha Camille Kabia, Martin Garcia, Peter Cilella, and Emily Pendergast. SYNOPSIS: A troubled LA school guard, haunted by family tragedy, experiences strange visions after a mysterious light appears […]

Movie Review – 40 Acres (2025)

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40 Acres, 2025. Directed by R.T. Thorne. Starring Danielle Deadwyler, Kataem O’Connor, Michael Greyeyes, Milcania Diaz-Rojas, Leenah Robinson, Jaeda LeBlanc, Haile Amare, Elizabeth Saunders, Tyrone Benskin, Myriam Côté, Jacob Gabriel, and Patrick Garrow. SYNOPSIS: In a post-apocalyptic world with food scarcity, a Black family of Canadian farmers descended from American Civil War migrants defend their […]

Movie Review – The Naked Gun (2025)

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The Naked Gun, 2025. Directed by Akiva Schaffer. Starring Liam Neeson, Pamela Anderson, Paul Walter Hauser, Danny Huston, CCH Pounder, Kevin Durand, Liza Koshy, Eddie Yu, Michael Beasley, Cody Rhodes, Busta Rhymes, Jason MacDonald, Moses Jones, ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic, Dave Bautista, Priscilla Presley, Wilbur Fitzgerald, David Lengel, Jon Anik, Michael Bisping, Bruce Buffer, Justin Gaethje, […]

Movie Review – She Rides Shotgun (2025)

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She Rides Shotgun, 2025. Directed by Nick Rowland. Starring Taron Egerton, Ana Sophia Heger, Odessa A’zion, John Carroll Lynch, David Lyons, Rob Yang, and Keith Jardine. SYNOPSIS: A girl marked for death, must fight and steal to stay alive, learning from the most frightening man she knows-her father. An adaptation of Jordan Harper’s award-winning novel. […]

Holding Brutality and Tenderness in the Same Breath: She Rides Shotgun Director Nick Rowland – Exclusive Interview

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In a genre where it’s all too easy to forget about the characters, director Nick Rowland is making thoughtful, more emotionally heavy action films. While watching his sophomore future, She Rides Shotgun, which stars Taron Egerton and newcomer Ana Sophia Heger as an estranged father/daughter duo marked for death by an Aryan gang he went […]