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Kate Review: A Painfully Uninspired Action Film

September 26, 2021

Kate (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) has worked alongside her partner Varrick (Woody Harrelson) as a hired gun for 12 years, and in that time, she has never missed a target. Now she wants to retire, live an actual...

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings Review: A Ten-Ring Circus

Chris Sawin

September 20, 2021

Movie Reviews, Movies

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is a frustrating experience if you’re a fan of Chinese cinema. Co-written and directed by Destin Daniel Cretton (Short Term 12) and featuring screenplay contribution...

Free Guy Review: Artificial Excellence

Chris Sawin

August 17, 2021

Movie Reviews, Movies

Filmed in 2019 and finally seeing release after five separate delays from its original July 2020 premiere date, Free Guy is a sci-fi action comedy directed by Shawn Levy (Real Steal, the Night at the Museum tri...

Werewolves Within Review: A Sleepover with Guns

Chris Sawin

July 5, 2021

Movie Reviews, Movies

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...

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