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INCOMING MOVIE REVIEW The teen sex comedy genre has had some truly classic entries in the past couple of decades, like Dazed and Confused, Can’t Hardly Wait, American Pie and Superbad. These movies focus on the coming-of-age experiences of teenagers, often revolving around high school and that one night where everything goes wrong before it […]

THE LAST BREATH MOVIE REVIEW Back in ye olden days, a ship would go out to see and often return with tales of adventure and massive booty. But alas, what if the captain and the hardy crew did not return to dock? Could the ship have sank, and what of the hearty crew? Perhaps a […]

THE DEVIL’S BATH MOVIE REVIEW In 18th century Austria, love is in the air! Or in the very least, an arrangement made between random strangers to please their lineage and God by becoming one under holy matrimony and offering up their wedding bed for the good of procreation and carrying on the will of the […]

STAR WARS: THE ACOLYTE SERIES REVIEW The Knights of One Of Us, Melina, Neil, and TC, gather in the Jedi Council Chambers to discuss the newest entry in the Star Wars canon, The Acolyte. This mystery-thriller tells the dark tale of of Mae (Amandla Stenberg), an assassin of Jedi who has been trained in the […]

A FAMILY AFFAIR MOVIE REVIEW Zara Ford (Joey King) is a young ambitious producer who’s ready to take the Hollywood bull by the horns and change the industry forever! She’s got her Pulitzer prize winning mother’s (Nicole Kidman) blessing and bottomless funds, and a foot in the door by being Mr. Blockbuster mega star Chris […]

THE GREAT LILLIAN HALL MOVIE REVIEW Broadway actress Lillian Hall is ready to go full showtime with Ivan Chekhov’s stage play “The Cherry Orchard” but a bad diagnosis from her doctor sets her up to have the standard biopic ‘long life lived’ reflections before the final curtain call. The Great Lillian Hall stars Jessica Lange […]

TALES OF THE EMPIRE SERIES REVIEW Following in the steps of Tales of the Jedi, which told the tales of Count Dooku and Ahsoka Tano in the prequel era, Tales of the Empire offers us another point of view. After losing everything, young Morgan Elsbeth (who we were introduced to in the Ahsoka series as […]

HUMANE MOVIE REVIEW Who knew that a Cronenberg could make a populist movie?! That’s what we get to some degree with Caitlin Cronenberg’s (daughter of filmmaker, David Cronenberg) first feature, Humane. Set in the not too distant future, the UN has decided due to environmental collapse that each country in the world needs to decrease […]

STAR WARS: THE BAD BATCH SEASON 3 REVIEW In the aftermath of the Clone Wars, The Bad Batch follows Hunter, Cross Hair, Wrecker, Tech, and Echo, a unique squad of clone troopers with genetic mutations who resisted Order 66 and go on the run in the early days of the Galactic Empire. They are joined […]

RIPLEY SERIES REVIEW He had always understood the power of lies – how they could shape reality, how they could make people see what you wanted them to see. The Talented Mr. Ripley, written by Patricia Highsmith back in 1955, has seen many adaptations over the decades. This time around, Steven Zaillian is running the […]