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From Silents to the Seventies: Gun Crazy
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Weekend Roundtable: Once Upon a…
This week’s Once Upon a Deadpool opens up an exciting marketing opportunity for all manner of adult-oriented movies to provide re-edited, cleaned-up versions safe for family consumption. It’s like everything those Cleanflix weirdos have tried to do, but authorized by the actual filmmakers and re-released to theaters. Which famous R-rated (or stronger) movie will be…
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Weekend Roundtable: Once Upon a…
This week’s Once Upon a Deadpool opens up an exciting marketing opportunity for all manner of adult-oriented movies to provide re-edited, cleaned-up versions safe for family consumption. It’s like everything those Cleanflix weirdo...
Ben Is Back Review: This Boy’s Strife
Ben Is Back is the latest film to tackle the losing battle this country is waging with the opioid crisis. However, rather than showing the effects of addiction and the long road to recovery, it instead focuses on the criminal elem...
The Mule Review: Flogging a Dead Horse
For about two-thirds of its running time, The Mule feels what it should be – an affable, briskly-directed tale of an old white dude who finds himself running copious amounts of narcotics for a Mexican cartel. The film has elements...
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Review – A Swing and a Hi
As that token non-comic book guy, the thought of some metaverse with oodles of differing Spidey-people seemed more tedious than thrilling to me. Within moments, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse does what so few comic book movies ...
Once Upon a Deadpool Review: Only Mostly Deadpool 2
If Deadpool is known for two things, they’re his metatextuality and the fact that he’s definitely not for young kids or those with delicate sensibilities. With this week’s release of Once Upon a Deadpool, the naughty superhero is ...
Mortal Engines Review: London Crawling
Adapting a full novel into a single film is a fool’s errand. While it can (and has) been done well, all too often the full breadth of the story is better suited for the page than for the screen. Mortal Engines is a prime example o...
Supergirl 4.09 Recap: “This Is Kind of Becoming an Annual T
This year’s DC crossover extravaganza, Elseworlds, concludes on Supergirl and, as you’d expect, our heroes largely set thing straight in the multiverse. (Whoops, is that a spoiler? Nah, you figured that part out already, didn’t yo...
Now Streaming – Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle
Netflix’s Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle might pull from the same Rudyard Kipling story as Disney’s The Jungle Book, but this dark tale of survival has no singing bears for the kiddos’ amusement. It’s an exercise in showing the more...
The House That Jack Built Review: Architects Do It Better
You can, and probably should, accuse director Lars von Trier of being many things, but boring is never one of them. He’s inflammatory and intentionally offensive, and his films follow suit. Through the various genre filters he has...
Arrow 7.09 Recap: “Would Hitching a Ride in the Batmobile B
The Elseworlds event continues on Arrow. In a lot of ways, the second part of the crossover serves as a backdoor pilot for next year’s upcoming new DC Arrowverse spinoff. No matter, it works well enough and even makes me want to w...
From Silents to the Seventies: Gun Crazy
A timeless cautionary tale and just a damn good thriller, the low-budget Gun Crazy takes us on a riveting ride into the dark, crooked world of film noir. This crime classic stands as one of the genre’s finest entries and deserves ...
The Flash 5.09 Recap: “What a Total Freaky Friday!”
The Flash switches nights with Supergirl this week to kick off the season’s big DC crossover event, called Elseworlds. Last year’s Crisis on Earth-X was a lot of fun and set a high bar for this one to clear. Fortunately, the start...