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Werewolves Within Review: A Sleepover with Guns

July 5, 2021

A horror comedy film based on the 2016 Red Storm Entertainment developed, Ubisoft published multiplayer VR video game of the same name, Werewolves Within keeps the same mystery/whodunit element of the game by i...

5.5

The Forever Purge Review: America, A Ho-Hum Dystopia

Chris Sawin

July 5, 2021

Movie Reviews, Movies

Searching for stability in the face of record high levels of illegal immigration resulting from a surge in refugees fleeing cartel violence in Mexico and a growing wave of White Supremacy and anti-hispanic raci...

A Quiet Place Part II Review: Long Time, No Hear

Chris Sawin

June 6, 2021

Movie Reviews, Movies

What’s great about A Quiet Place II is that it’s story is no longer so self-contained, as The Abbott family is forced to leave their farm and their home and go out into the outside world. However, the scarie...

The Mitchells vs. The Machines Review: Hybrid Animation Hilarity

Chris Sawin

April 30, 2021

Movie Reviews, Movies

The Mitchells vs. The Machines is a computer animated sci-fi comedy written and directed by Gravity Falls writers Micahel Rionda, who also served as the show's creative director, and Jeff Rowe, whose writ...

Gamespot Gives Thumbs Down to Godzilla vs. Kong For Lack of Smart Human Characters

JB Augustine

April 6, 2021

Movies

You'll rarely hear a fan kvetch there's too much Kaiju in a Godzilla or giant monster film and not enough intelligent humans guiding the story. Source: Godzilla vs. Kong (2021), HBO Max Related: Godzilla...

7.5

Nobody Review: One Kitten Shy of a Beatdown

Chris Sawin

March 25, 2021

Movie Reviews, Movies

Get those John Wick and Better Call Saul comparisons ready. Nobody is an action thriller that embraces exactly what it advertises, straps itself in to an out of control and nearly demolished vehicle, and bloodi...

Raya and the Last Dragon Review: A Broken Animated World Where Mediocrity Prevails

Chris Sawin

March 6, 2021

Movie Reviews, Movies

Raya and the Last Dragon takes place in a dragon-shaped land known as Kumandra. Long ago, a “mindless plague” known as Druun mercilessly swept through Kumandra and turned nearly every person and every dragon to...

The Little Things Review: Do They Matter at All to This Movie?

JB Augustine

February 14, 2021

Movie Reviews, Movies

After sitting through The Little Things, the second release from Warner Bros. as part of their new simultaneous-theater-and-streaming-release strategy, I’m reminded of a scene from The Simpsons. During one o...

Saint Maud Review: Never Waste Your Pain

Chris Sawin

February 12, 2021

Movie Reviews, Movies

Written and directed by Rose Glass, Saint Maud is a British psychological horror film that follows nurse Katie (Morfydd Clark), who finds herself unemployed after she loses one of her patients. Now, going by th...

Earwig and the Witch Review: An Uneven But Enjoyable CGI Effort from Studio Ghibli

Chris Sawin

February 4, 2021

Anime, Anime Reviews, Movie Reviews, Movies

Following his work on Tales From Earthsea (2006), From Up on Poppy Hill (2011), and the CGI animated television series Ronja, The Robber’s Daughter (2014) (which is currently available to stream on Amazon Prime...

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