I'm going to give credit where credit is due. The second act of this film is masterfully done. The first act seems so disjointed and random, that is hard to feel strongly in either direction on whether this is a well-told story or not.…
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When I reviewed episodes 1 & 2 of MONARCH a couple of months ago I was cautiously optimistic. That optimism fell quickly to the wayside and I had a difficult time finishing the season. MONARCH: LEGACY OF MONSTERS might be better called “MONARCH: LEGACY OF UNIMPORTANT EMPLOYEES & THEIR FAMILIES”. First things first. When the show started I was thrown off by how Kurt Russell could seemingly look so young and play someone so old. The timelines didn’t match up.…
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LIFT does not lift its audience to any worthwhile heights.…
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Aaron and Esta review the latest season of FOR ALL MANKIND. Aaron thought it was "lost in space," whereas Esta was kinda sucked into its gravitational pull.…
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Every season of FOR ALL MANKIND usually has a fantastic opening episode and a mini-movie to close it out. Yet, season four substitutes that for one of the worst conclusions yet.…
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THE HUNGER GAMES, but make it a musical is the very basic premise of this prequel to the popular series from the 2010’s. Also make sure all of the songs hit you over the head with their themes and lyrics, like one of those literal music videos that used to be popular on YouTube. A BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS & SNAKES is hard to spoil because everything about it is in the title. Every plot turns and a lot of the…
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"It seems a real missed opportunity to have not entitled the film, “Pooltergeist,” instead."…
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Have you ever imagined how a film might turn out if you threw a bunch of Zack Snyder unproduced ideas into a ChatGPT type bot, plus some Star Wars fan fiction written in the 90s by then teens, and asked it to spit out a sci-fi script? The first part of Snyder’s latest, REBEL MOON: PART 1 is actually far worse than that.…
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I had high hopes that Mike White could take his edgy style from THE WHITE LOTUS and somehow translate it into an Illumination family film.…
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