Long Shot feels like a movie that was written by a group of teenage boys hanging out in a basement. A schlubby male fantasy filled with stoner jokes, gross out gags, and a love story about a beautiful, successful woman saving a vulgar, out of shape, down-on-his-luck writer. Luckily, thanks to few funny moments and terrific performances by Charlize Theron and Seth Rogen, Long Shot feels more like a misfire than a complete…
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2019 is blowing right past us, as we are already heading into the summer movie season! I know everyone is still hyped about Avengers: Endgame, but that isn’t the only movie coming out this year. May is kicking off the summer in the most perfect way possible. We get a great mix of all genres, from action to indie to Pokémon, and get a couple of the year’s most anticipated sequels. Here are my picks for…
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THIS REVIEW IS 110% SPOILER FREE, SO KEEP READING!! Well, we’re here. We’re in the Endgame now. After eleven years and twenty one movies, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has finally come to this. Avengers: Endgame is the finale of one of cinema’s greatest journeys and answers all the burning questions that have plagued us for the last year and ties up the last eleven years of cinematic world building. The result…
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Guillermo del Toro made two Hellboy movies back in 2004 and 2008, both of which are very good movies that understood its characters and understood the world they were in. However, due to neither film making a lot of money domestically – the first one making $59 million, the second one making $75 million, respectively – Hollywood decided to not let del Toro finish out a trilogy and instead wait eleven years to…
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After 2017’s It was a critical and financial success, Stephen King adaptations immediately became the hottest properties in all of Hollywood. So rather than take a lesser-known property to remake, like Graveyard Shift, or a film that was poorly received upon its initial release, like Sleepwalkers or Dreamcatcher, the first film to follow the It-hype was Pet Sematary, a remake of the 1989 horror classic which, for this critic, is one of the most unsettling horror movies…
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Shazam is a comic book character I knew nothing about going into the film. I never read comics as a kid, but before heading into a new superhero origin story, I usually have a basic understanding of our hero before I enter the theater. I was completely clueless on Shazam, to the point where I wasn’t even aware he was initially called Captain Marvel until Marvel sued DC for the name…
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I haven’t done one of these in a long, long time. I don’t have a good reason for not posting this article monthly, but I’ll make sure these keep coming every month. This month, Netflix is coming strong, but not with big blockbusters or original content, but with indies, foreign films, and classics. I really hope Netflix keeps this trend going, as it will allow more people to see movies that they wouldn’t normally see. …
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April has become one of the bigger cinematic months over the years. With films like Captain America: The Winter Soldier, The Jungle Book, and Fate of the Furious all coming out over the past few Aprils, this month seems to be the new launching point for summer blockbusters and this year is no different. There are five really good, diverse movies coming out this month, including three superhero movies with one of them being arguably the biggest movie of…
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The stoner comedy is a genre of film that has slowly faded away. There have been films that have been based around smoking weed, but none that really fall into what it really means to be a stoner comedy. A movie where the weed isn’t so much a main character, but a weapon that our stoned out hero or heroes use in order to survive their personal quest, which can vary…
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Tim Burton makes movies about outcasts. From Pee Wee Herman to Edward Scissorhands to Ed Wood to Sweeney Todd, Burton makes movies about people who stand out from the crowd because of their looks, personality, and their lifestyle. So it’s no wonder why Burton would be drawn to Dumbo, Disney’s latest live-action remake of the classic tale about a big eared elephant who learns he can fly. But what makes this version…
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