A game night will bring your favorite people together to eat, drink, and play a number of different games. It is an activity that isn’t about the games at hand, but more about spending time with the friends you care about. That is exactly what Game Night is. It is a movie who’s central plot is fun, with a number of different genres and stories thrown in, but a film that focuses on the…
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Alex Garland’s directorial debut, Ex-Machina, is one of the best science fiction movies of this decade and an incredibly impressive directorial debut. It is always hard to follow a masterpiece, as there is now a level of expectation that is usually hard to repeat, let alone twice in a row. With Annihilation, Garland shows he’s a real deal director, though fails to capture the originality, intensity, and brilliance of Ex-Machina. The movie is a visual…
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Black Panther is the eighteenth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but it is unlike any that they have come out with before. Unlike most Marvel movies, this is a movie that is it’s own animal (pun?). Director Ryan Coogler has made something truly special. In the aftermath of Captain America: Civil War, Prince T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman) is about to become the King of Wakanda while still doubling as the Black Panther. His first act as king…
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Continuing my list of my most anticipated movies of 2018, these ten right here have me really excited. It’s a nice combination of directors, franchises, and actors that I love and a lot of Oscar contenders. Here are my ten most anticipated movies of 2018. 10 – THE BEACH BUM (Harmony Korine, TBA) Harmony Korine made one of my favorite movies this decade with Spring Breakers. He is a wild director who’s film’s have…
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Dakota Johnson and Dumbface, sorry, Jamie Dornan, are back for the third and final (THANK THE FUCKING LORD!!) film in the Fifty Shades series, Fifty Shades Freed, far and away the worst of the series and in the running for the worst movie of the decade. During the movie, my girlfriend, with whom I saw the movie with, asked me what time it was and I told her the movie had only been going on…
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The Cloverfield Paradox is the third installment in the Cloverfield trilogy, following the found footage monster flick from 2008 and the 2016 claustrophobic thriller 10 Cloverfield Lane. When hearing that there was going to be a third Cloverfield film, my intrigue was through the roof. The first film is an insane monster movie that puts these alien creatures on Earth. We don’t know how they got there or why they are there, which is all part of…
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Now that the 2018 movie year is in full swing, let’s look at the movies coming out this year. As always, there are a lot of intriguing movies from a lot of great filmmakers. We have a slew of sequels, franchises, and comic book movies, as well as original content and some that will sneak up out of nowhere. Here is part one of my most anticipated movies of 2018. 20…
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Today, February 9, 2018, I officially depart from my twenties and enter my thirties. It has been a wild decade, as I started it in college studying film and have finished as an accredited film critic. Crazy how the world works. In honor of this momentous occasion, here are my picks for the best movies that came out over the last decade (2008 – 2017). 10 – GRAVITY (Alfonso Cuaron, 2013) Sandra…
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Den of Thieves is a frustrating movie. It is frustrating in that it is a movie about nothing. There are a lot of characters and actions happening, but it all culminates into nothing. What is crazy about that is that the run time is nearly two and a half hours and within that two and half hours, we get little character development, a small plot, limited action, and an ending that…
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The 2018 Sundance Film Festival has come to a close. Overall, this wasn’t really the strongest year for Sundance. It was a great year for documentaries and Midnight movies, but the Dramatic competition films and Premiere films were somewhat lackluster. I saw 25 movies this festival (it would have been more, but I got sick and didn’t see movies for two days). However, out of the 25 movies that I did see (I would have…
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