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Bianca Belle learns why you don't stick your hand out a bus window in Sketch (2025), Angel Studios
August 11, 2025
Review: Angel Studios takes an unexpected turn with 'Sketch', a throwback PG horror that has a comedic and kid-friendly tone.
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August 8, 2025
Review: 'Weapons' is Zach Cregger's follow-up to his well-received 'Barbarian' and it's more accessible to a wider audience.
Frank Drebin Jr. (Liam Neeson) saves a group of hostages in The Naked Gun (2025), Paramount Pictures
August 5, 2025
There are fun and hilarious moments in The Naked Gun, but it’s a barrage of slapstick comedy with unlimited ammo…
(L-R) Terrance Lau and Phillip Ng as Long and Wai in Stuntman. Image courtesy of Entertaining Co. Limited.
August 5, 2025
With exceptionally poignant performances and a traumatic storyline, Stuntman embraces the new while honoring the legends that predate it.
Lee Sun-bin as Ju-young in Noise (2025) via 바이포엠스튜디오 BY4M STUDIO, YouTube
July 31, 2025
An auditory nightmare fueled by an uncertain, foreboding atmosphere, Noise is really good at times but slightly disappointing in execution.
(from left) Snake (Marc Maron), Wolf (Sam Rockwell), Piranha (Anthony Ramos), Shark (Craig Robinson), Tarantula (Awkwafina), and Susan (Natosha Lyonne).
July 31, 2025
A bigger, badder, and funnier than its predecessor, The Bad Guys 2 is a great animated heist comedy worthy of…
Frankelda and Herneval in the stop-motion animated film I am Frankelda. Image courtesy of Cinema Fantasma and Fantasia International Film Festival.
July 29, 2025
Though I Am Frankelda is a story worth telling, it's told in a roundabout way that would have benefited from…
Happy (Adam Sandler) can't stop thinking about his past failures in Happy Gilmore 2 (2025), Netflix
July 28, 2025
An interesting amalgamation of rehash, redemption, and enough hilarious moments just barely qualify Happy Gilmore 2 as a worthy sequel.
Ben Grimm (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) makes an appearance on The Ted Gilbert Show in Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025), Marvel Studios
July 26, 2025
There’s a lot of promise in this version of The Fantastic Four; a worthwhile cinematic endeavor unlike its predecessors.
Jennifer Love Hewitt
July 22, 2025
Review: 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' is everything wrong with legacy sequels as it lacks reverence for its…
Death Stalker
July 18, 2025
Review: a good cast and drama elevate an unpleasant and mucky affair with too much 'disclosure' in '28 Years Later'.
The Man of Steel (David Corenswet) flies into action in Superman (2025), DC Studios
July 16, 2025
James Gunn strips away the hope from Superman, focusing on his struggle to save the day — only to overcome…
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July 3, 2025
Review: 'Jurassic World: Rebirth' has the same Park attractions and mishaps of men playing God you've seen many times over,…
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June 30, 2025
Review: 'The Phoenician Scheme' is an ensemble comedy that is sure to please Wes Anderson fans. Everybody else, use discretion.
Four people and a dog
June 29, 2025
Review: 'M3GAN 2.0' takes a page out of 'T2', but that isn't nearly the bottom of its salad bowl of…
The Night Fury dragon, Toothless in Universal Pictures’ live-action How to Train Your Dragon, written and directed by Dean DeBlois.
June 19, 2025
Dean DeBlois' How to Train Your Dragon is a lifeless, carbon-copy shell of the original animated film from 2010.
June 19, 2025
Elio (Yonas Kibreab) is an 11-year-old boy who has recently lost his parents. He’s been taken in by his aunt…
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June 16, 2025
Review: "From the world of John Wick" comes 'Ballerina', a film where the real assassin is girlboss fatigue targeting it.
Ethan Hunt wants to avoid panic in Mission: Impossible -- The Final Reckoning (2025), Paramount Pictures
June 11, 2025
'Mission: Impossible -- The Final Reckoning' turns Tom Cruise into the savior his Scientologist heart wishes he was.
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June 7, 2025
Review: Neal McDonough takes an eight-second ride that's a matter of life and death in the moving 'The Last Rodeo'.