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ANIMALS MOVIE REVIEW Politics is a dirty business. But when your family-values campaign turns into a hostage situation, things are about to get downright savage. In this Ben Affleck written and directed Netflix crime thriller, wealthy Los Angeles mayoral candidate Mark Kimball (Affleck) is days away from an election when his young son is kidnapped […]

WUTHERING HEIGHTS: THE HOUSE OF THE DAMNED MOVIE REVIEW Upon the windswept Yorkshire moors, where passion turns to obsession and the dead refuse to stay buried, Wuthering Heights: The House of the Damned offers a decidedly bloodier interpretation of Emily Brontë’s Gothic classic. When the unfortunate Mr. Lockwood arrives at the remote estate, he discovers […]

STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS SEASON 4 REVIEW Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise, whose continuing mission is to boldly go where no one has gone before… much to the chagrin of some viewers this season. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds returns for its fourth season, and Captain Pike […]

LADIES FIRST MOVIE REVIEW Did you know there is a movie streaming on Netflix starring Sacha Baron Cohen, Rosamund Pike, Fiona Shaw, Charles Dance, Emily Mortimer, Richard E. Grant, and Kathryn Hunter, and written by the screenwriter of Booksmart? Ladies First wants to have a conversation about gender roles in a patriarchal world. Cohen plays […]

STAR WARS: MAUL – SHADOW LORD SERIES REVIEW Luke Skywalker once said “No one’s ever really gone,” and no other character in the Star Wars franchise has taken that to heart more than Darth Maul; a character that has canonically died twice(!) already. And yet, fans can’t seem to get enough of the former Sith […]

FANTASY LIFE MOVIE REVIEW Are you a fan of Noah Baumbach movies? Maybe some classic Woody Allen New York Jewish anxiety films? How about a quiet walking and talking film? Well, Fantasy Life might be right up your alley. This feature directorial debut from Matthew Shear takes us on a sun-soaked stroll through the Big […]

THE RIP MOVIE REVIEW When it comes to Hollywood power couples, there aren’t many that have stood the test of time or the pressures of the star machine better and longer than Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, and they’ve reunited once again in a tightly wound crime thriller directed by Joe Carnahan. The Rip unfolds […]

STRANGER THINGS – SEASON 5 PART 3 REVIEW Released in 2016 to relatively little fanfare, Stranger Things quickly became a word of mouth hit, a pop culture phenomenon, and Netflix‘s flagship show. Now, almost a decade later, the show has completed its final voyage. It’s possible the ship might have suffered some damage along the […]

OH. WHAT. FUN. MOVIE REVIEW One Christmas you’re bound in a homemade leather suit decapitating mannequins while eluding the detective skills of a millionaire with daddy issues while awakening your independence and empowering an audience of all ages to do the same in the face of an uncaring apathetic world. Meow! Then three decades later, […]

STRANGER THINGS – SEASON 5 VOLUME 1 REVIEW The fifth and final season of Stranger Things might leave you feeling nostalgic, not for the 1980s, but for the halcyon days of 2016; back when a streaming series with no pre-release buzz could become a surprise word-of-mouth hit, when unknown child actors were actually the same […]