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I WANT YOU BACK MOVIE REVIEW The basic plot of any romantic comedy is that two characters meet, part ways due to an argument or other obstacle, then ultimately realize their love for one another and reunite. Perhaps with some comic friction or awkwardness, they declare their love for each other and the film ends […]

A HERO MOVIE REVIEW Oscar winning director Asghar Farhadi (A Separation, The Salesman) returns with another moral play film that, in this case, tackles the value of honor and the Iranian justice system. The story follow Rahim (Amir Jadidi), a man who was sent to prison due to failing to pay off a massive debt. […]

THE WHEEL OF TIME SERIES REVIEW The Wheel of Time turns, and adaptations come and pass, leaving shows that become legend. Legend fades to myth, but will the newest Amazon adaptation of The Wheel of Time become long forgotten after it has been reviewed by the OneOfUs Crew? The new series is based on the […]

THE TENDER BAR MOVIE REVIEW Lily Rabe is Dorothy Moehringer and (initially) Daniel Ranieri is her young son in this memoir (remember that word, you’ll hear it a lot in this movie) based on the book by J.R. Moehringer. She’s taken him away from his dead beat Radio DJ dad (Max Martini) and brought him […]

ENCOUNTER MOVIE REVIEW Riz Ahmed plays a soldier back from the war but who is on the run. Alien microbes have weaponized Earth’s mosquito population and they are biting people and injecting these microbes which lead to the people being controlled by the aliens. To do, I don’t know, alien stuff. Regardless, he’s not having […]

BEING THE RICARDOS MOVIE REVIEW The numbers don’t lie: “I Love Lucy” was one of the most successful tv shows of all time. It was groundbreaking with having a mixed-race couple as its stars and it largely was the show that begat the television staple of syndication. It made its stars and creators, Lucille Ball […]

THE ELECTRICAL LIFE OF LOUIS WAIN MOVIE REVIEW This new Amazon Prime film tells the peculiar story of Louis Wain, an artist who became so well known and beloved for his oddball cat paintings near the end of the 19th century, that he was often single handedly pointed at as the man responsible for the […]

WELCOME TO THE BLUMHOUSE – MADRES / THE MANOR MOVIES REVIEW The Blumhouse yearly series of original horror films that premiere on Amazon Prime continues with “Madres” and “The Manor” and I’ll tell you this in advance: one was one of the best of the whole series, and one was one of the worst. “Madres” […]

WELCOME TO THE BLUMHOUSE – BINGO HELL / BLACK AS NIGHT MOVIE REVIEWS Amazon Prime presents two more horror films in their “Welcome to the Blumhouse” series and we’re double-featuring them here on the review for your judgement. First up is “Bingo Hell” featuring a small and dying town with a lot of feisty old […]

EVERYONE’S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE MOVIE REVIEW The true story of Jamie Campbell has been a documentary that was turned into a stage musical that itself has now been brought to film because it just seems “Everybody’s Talking About Jamie”. Jamie (Max Harwood) has just turned 16 and still doesn’t find himself fitting in at school, […]