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WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING MOVIE REVIEW Based on Delia Owens’ bestselling novel of the same name, Where The Crawdads Sing tells the story of Kya, an abandoned child living alone in the marshes of North Carolina during the 1960s. Despite being poor, uneducated, and ostracized by the community, Kya (Daisy Edgar Jones) grows up to […]

BEAUTY MOVIE REVIEW One of the most important and exciting directors in the indie film world, Andrew Dosunmu, teams up with screenwriter Lena Waithe for Beauty, the story of a promising young songstress on the brink of fame and success that’s totally not based on any famous singer whatsoever. I mean sure, throughout the course […]

THE FIRST LADY SERIES REVIEW As the old saying goes: behind every successful man is a great woman telling him to move the hell over…I may be paraphrasing slightly. Showtime’s newest limited series weaves together the stories of three iconic women: Eleanor Roosevelt (Gillian Anderson), Betty Ford (Michelle Pfeiffer) and Michelle Obama (Viola Davis), all […]

MINIONS: THE RISE OF GRU MOVIE REVIEW How are there five films in the Despicable Me universe? Oh wow, I just said, “The Despicable Me Universe”. I mean…really. Well now we know why. Because our own Spider-Mike is an honest-to-god big fan of these films. And for this latest entry, the second prequel after 2015’s […]

ELVIS MOVIE REVIEW Director Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge) takes on the story of one of the most legendary singers in history, Elvis Presley. And if you are familiar with Luhrmann’s filmography and know at least something about Elvis (I mean, is it possible not to?) you probably have some idea going into this what to […]

SPIDERHEAD MOVIE REVIEW With the combined efforts of Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, the screenwriters of the Deadpool films, and Joseph Kosinski, the director of Top Gun Maverick, you could make assumptions about the sort of movie you’re going to get. Action, satire, dark comedy all smashed together into some fantastic new flick. And with […]

THE BLACK PHONE MOVIE REVIEW In a dark, grimy, soundproof basement…no one can you scream. That’s at least the case for our young hero in the new film, The Black Phone. Scott Derrickson is back with a new horror film co-written by C. Robert Cargill and adapted from Joe Hill’s short story of the same name. […]

FLUX GOURMET MOVIE REVIEW Peter Strickland’s (In Fabric) latest film, Flux Gourmet, is a feast of sight and sound commenting on the pretentious art world. Fatma Mohamed, Ariane Labed, and Asa Butterfield star as a trio of musically talented culinary artists that have been accepted in the prestigious Sonic Culinary Institute. Gwendoline Christie runs said […]

THE OFFER SERIES REVIEW From the same studio that brought you that obscure little art film The Godfather comes a (highly fictionalized) dramatization of the making of The Godfather. This ten episode miniseries from showrunner Michael Tolkin (The Player) comes to Paramount Plus just in time for the 50th anniversary of Francis Ford Coppola’s 1972 […]

GOOD LUCK TO YOU, LEO GRANDE MOVIE REVIEW Let’s talk about sex, baby. Let’s talk about a woman named Nancy. Let’s talk about all the good things and the bad things that may be. Let’s talk about sex. But hold on. This isn’t some lewd review about some porn. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. […]