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Never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would get excited over a “Barbie” movie; a feature length film about a doll that has been praised for being a role model to girls who want to be whoever they wanna be and criticized for materialism... Read the full review »

C’mon guys: this is Mission Impossible. “Dead Reckoning: Part One” would’ve had to try REALLY FREAKING hard to mess up the amount of goodwill it grew over the past few decades. Well…..one semi-massive blunder does try to do that but the... Read the full review »

“What if”: a common phrase used to introduce a suggestion or proposal for past or future events and often touch on the subtle framing of self-reflection. Celine Song’s ‘Past Lives’ is both a nuanced exploration of that lost love and long... Read the full review »

And so we end Pride Month, appropriately with a heartwarming tale of friendship, companionship and rebellion called “Nimona”. 7 years, two studios, hundreds of people, and a thousand buckets of sweat and tears to wrangle out of development hel... Read the full review »

There have been frequent whispers around the bend that with superhero movies finally pissing the bed from overexposing themselves, action movies are poised to make a comeback. If John Wick 4, Sisu and Extraction are of any indication, it’s a sta... Read the full review »

As much as I liked Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch, it left me with one polarizing question to ponder: he knows how to light a scene, to inject emotion into anything via colors and sound, to offer plenty of composition but without a passable... Read the full review »

One of two things, I knew were going to happen to me when I watched The Blackening: it was going to laugh or I was going to cringe. Surprisingly, I did more of the first….because I found enjoyment in this. Talk about a film that wants to have i... Read the full review »

A figure usually written off in novelty, Bob Ross has been a staple of television about as long as Mr. Rogers has; a painter whose calm nature, artistic inclinations, and optimism inspired thousands of painters after him and whom many still idoliz... Read the full review »

As the final chapter of the DCEU before being rebooted into the DCU, “The Flash” had so much working against it with not a lot to live up to. Its last strangled gasps reveal an overwrought but occasionally playful experience that both remedies... Read the full review »

As lopsided and embarrassing as the last Transformers movies were, minus the first one, I can’t deny that those films were responsible for bringing Transformers back into the mainstream to some capacity. The reason I mention this is because it�... Read the full review »