Category: Movie Reviews

  • Mortal Kombat 2 is for the Gamers

    Mortal Kombat 2 is for the Gamers

    Let me start by saying this: If you are going into Mortal Kombat 2 looking for a thought-provoking movie, this is not it! Mortal Kombat 2 knows that it is a movie for the fans of the game. While it tried to use Cole Young (Lewis Tan) as the entry point in the first movie…

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  • The Scares are Legit in Hokum

    The Scares are Legit in Hokum

    There is a moment in Hokum where Ohm Bauman (Adam Scott) is sitting in a dumbwaiter and counting down. During these tense seconds, the camera’s focus switches between Ohm in the dumbwaiter and the dark corridor he is staring at. As you sit there, watching him count down, the anxiety starts to build. The use…

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  • Flying Through Space with Project Hail Mary

    Flying Through Space with Project Hail Mary

    In cinema history, we have seen many movies about the near destruction of Earth. From Armageddon, Deep Impact, and The Day After Tomorrow, we have seen planet Earth in peril many times.  Project Hail Mary gives us this tale again, with the sun being the villain this time. The sun is dying, and a team…

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  • Dolly is a Great Throwback to 70’s Horror Films

    Dolly is a Great Throwback to 70’s Horror Films

    Horror fans have been eating well with the number of horror films released lately. Dolly, the latest movie by Rod Blackhurst, takes the audience on a hellish ride that will keep them on the edge of their seats. Dolly begins with Chase, Seann William Scott, planning to propose to his girlfriend, Macy, Fabianne Therese, on a…

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  • Breaking Norms with The Bride!

    Breaking Norms with The Bride!

    The Blues Brothers once sang, “Everybody Needs Somebody to Love,” and that is one of the themes of Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride. Frankenstein, Christian Bale, is lonely. After being alive for almost a hundred years, he wants to experience something he has never had: Companionship. On the flip side, Ida/The Bride, Jessie Buckley, is a…

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  • Learning the Importance of Nature with Hoppers

    Learning the Importance of Nature with Hoppers

    You often hear the phrase ‘Go outside and touch grass,” said online. With many of the happenings going on in our world, doing that is a way to recenter yourself or step away from the screen for a while. What many feel is that by getting back to nature, you realize that you can enjoy…

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  • Revisiting the Bride in Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair

    Revisiting the Bride in Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair

    A little backstory on my relationship with the Kill Bill series. I used to study Gung-Fu in my younger days. My interest in the martial arts was pretty high. When The Matrix came out, I felt like this was the movie that I had been waiting for my entire life. While watching Jackie Chan, Jet…

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  • Seeing Elvis on Stage again is EPiC

    Seeing Elvis on Stage again is EPiC

    There is a moment during his rehearsal when Elvis Presley goes into singing “Something” by The Beatles. It is interesting to see because many people think the two acts come from different eras. Seeing Elvis sing this song and talk about his respect for the group is great. In Baz Luhrmann’s documentary/concert film EPiC (Elvis…

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  • A Bizarre Love Story is Wuthering Heights

    A Bizarre Love Story is Wuthering Heights

    In a recent interview with Fandango, director Emerald Fennell was asked about the quotation marks on the title of her latest movie, “Wuthering Heights”. She answered, “There’s a version that I remembered reading that isn’t quite real. And there’s a version where I wanted stuff to happen that never happened. And so it is Wuthering…

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  • Stopping AI in Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die

    Stopping AI in Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die

    Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is a crazy ride to save the future with some fun acting by the cast.

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