• Madame Web (2024) – Review

    Madame Web (2024) is directed by S.J. Clarkson and stars Dakota Johnson, Sydney Sweeney, Celeste O’Connor, Isabela Merced, Tahar Rahim, and Adam Scott. The film takes place in Sony’s Spider-Man universe (which inexplicably doesn’t feature Spider-Man). It follows Cassandra Web (Johnson), a paramedic in New York City who begins to display clairvoyant powers after a

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  • Blow Out (1981) – Review

    Blow Out (1981) – Review

    Blow Out (1981) is directed by Brian De Palma and stars John Travolta, Nancy Allen, John Lithgow, and Dennis Franz. The film follows Jack (Travolta), a movie sound recordist who accidentally records proof that a car accident was indeed murder, becoming entangled in a political conspiracy that threatens his life at every turn. Teaming up

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  • Out of Darkness (2024) – Review

    Out of Darkness (2024) is directed by Andrew Cumming and stars Safia Oakley-Green, Chuku Modu, Kit Young, Arno Luning, Iola Evans, and Luna Mwezi. The film follows a small group of stone-age humans attempting to settle in a new land. Arriving at an unspecified location that resembles Scotland/Ireland, the group soon realizes that the land

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  • Lisa Frankenstein (2024) – Review

    Lisa Frankenstein (2024) is directed by Zelda Williams and stars Kathryn Newton, Cole Sprouse, Liza Soberano, Carla Gugino, Joe Chrest, Henry Eikenberry, and Bryce Romero. This is writer Diablo Cody’s second foray into horror-comedy after Jennifer’s Body (2009). This is also the feature-length directorial debut of Zelda Williams, daughter of the legendary Robin Williams. The

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  • Jennifer’s Body (2009) – Review

    Jennifer’s Body (2009) is directed by Karyn Kusama and stars Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, Johnny Simmons, Adam Brody, Kyle Gallner, and J.K. Simmons. With this weekend’s release of writer Diablo Cody’s Lisa Frankenstein (2024), I’ve decided to travel back to 2009 and review her first foray into the horror-comedy genre. The film follows two high

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  • Argylle (2024) – Review

    Argylle (2024) is directed by Matthew Vaughn and stars Bryce Dallas Howard, Sam Rockwell, Henry Cavill, Bryan Cranston, Samuel L. Jackson, Catherine O’Hara, Ariana DeBose, and John Cena. The film follows Ellie Conway (Dallas Howard), the author of a popular book series that focuses on an international spy named Argylle. After encountering a man who

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  • Miller’s Girl (2024) – Review

    Miller’s Girl (2024) is directed by Jade Halley Bartlett and stars Jenna Ortega, Martin Freeman, Gideon Adlon, Bashir Salahuddin, and Dagmara Dominczyk. The film follows middle-aged literature professor, Jonathan Miller (Freeman), who becomes infatuated with a brilliant and beautiful student named Cairo Sweet (Ortega). When the relationship takes a less-than-academic turn, Miller and Cairo respond

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  • The Color Purple (2023) – Review

    The Color Purple (2023) is directed by Blitz Bazawule and stars Fantasia Barrino, Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, Colman Domingo, Corey Hawkins, Phylicia Pearl Mpasi, Halle Bailey, H.E.R., Ciara, and David Alan Grier. The film is a musical remake of Steven Speilberg’s The Color Purple (1985) and follows the life of Nettie (Barrino & Mpasi),

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  • Anatomy of a Fall (2023) – Review

    Anatomy of a Fall (2023) is directed by Justine Triet and stars Sandra Huller, Milo Machado Graner, Swann Arlaud, Antoine Reinartz, Jehnny Beth, and Samuel Theis. The film follows writer Sandra Voyter (Huller) and her blind son, Daniel (Graner) after their husband/father, Samuel (Theis) dies after falling from the top floor of their secluded family

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  • Past Lives (2023) – Review

    Past Lives (2023) is directed by Celine Song and stars Greta Lee, Teo Yoo, and Joe Magaro. The film follows Nora (Lee), whose South Korean family immigrates to the United States when she is just a pre-teen. 12 years later, Nora’s childhood love interest, Hae (Yoo) reconnects with her through social media. The two become

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