Category: Movie Reviews

  • 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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  • Luc Besson’s Romantic, but Uneven “Dracula”

    Luc Besson’s Romantic, but Uneven “Dracula”

    Over 100 films and TV productions are either based on Bram Stoker’s classic horror novel Dracula or feature characters from the story. A dozen are direct adaptations of the 1897 novel that introduces Count Dracula and his nemesis, Abraham Van Helsing, along with the hapless Jonathan Harker, Mina, Jonathan’s fiancée, Lucy, who is stricken by the Count,…

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  • Staying After School with Teacher’s Pet

    Staying After School with Teacher’s Pet

    From the second Teacher’s Pet begins, you know that Luke Barnett’s Mr. Heller is not a good guy. The opening scene attacks you with a startling image and continues to show you images of the horror that has just transpired. If you thought from the title that Teacher’s Pet was going to be a student/teacher…

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  • Being in The Moment with Charli XCX

    Being in The Moment with Charli XCX

    In a recent Q&A after a screening of The Moment, Charli XCX stated that one takeaway she wants people to get is “the creative process, and how you can really sometimes feel like you’re being like, pulled apart in and pulled between two sorts of inner demons within yourself.” As you watch The Moment, you…

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