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Jan 212 min read
Magic Mike Franchise (2012 - 2023)
Magic Mike: The selling point of the movie is obviously the sex appeal of some very fit big-name actors. At its core, it is honestly a...
Dec 3, 20231 min read
Dream Scenario (Released 11/10/23)
This movie goes about as advertised. An average Joe starts appearing in people's dreams. At first, he is just there, but it turns into...
Dec 2, 20231 min read
Godzilla Minus One (Released 12/1/23)
This movie was way better than I expected. Normally the human story is just filler in between Godzilla attacks. This time around it is a...
Nov 26, 20231 min read
Anatomy of a Fall (Released 10/13/23)
I didn’t really plan on seeing this movie but I wanted to see something and this was something I hadn’t seen yet. It is a French...
Nov 25, 20231 min read
Napoleon (Released 11/22/23)
I’m gonna be real, my only issue with this movie is the fact they made no attempt to de-age Joaquin Phoenix. They cover his mid-20s to...
Nov 11, 20231 min read
The Holdovers (Released 10/27/23)
You can kind of expect where this goes based on the trailers. A student and a teacher are at odds but over the course of the Christmas...
Nov 5, 20231 min read
The Marsh King's Daughter (released 11/3/23)
This is the definition of a psychological thriller. A girl raised, not realizing her father trapped her mother and they were separated...
Nov 4, 20231 min read
Killers of the Flower Moon (released 10/20/23)
The biggest detractor for this movie is the runtime. The story is fantastic and the runtime is semi-justified since the film covers...
Aug 25, 20231 min read
Gran Turismo (released 8/25/23)
I got good vibes from the movie’s trailers but it was a better experience than I expected. The movie is based on the real story of a kid...
May 14, 20232 min read
Movie releases from 5/12/23
This week's movies were a super weak lineup and I almost didn't want to post my reviews. As a compromise, I put all three in one post in...
May 7, 20231 min read
Big George Foreman (released 4/28/23)
Full Disclosure, I did a stupid and went to a Spanish showing of this movie with no subtitles. But with my limited Spanish knowledge and...
Apr 30, 20231 min read
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (released 4/28/23)
This was an odd coming-of-age story about a 6th-grade girl trying to figure life out in her new town. There are two main growing pains...
Apr 23, 20231 min read
To Catch A Killer (released 4/21/23)
This was more of a statement piece than a full-fledged crime thriller. There were heavy references to the arguments involving guns, as...
Apr 22, 20231 min read
Guy Ritchie's The Covenant (released 4/21/23)
This was a much better movie than I anticipated. The premise is essentially this interpreter in Afghanistan brought a wounded soldier...
Apr 9, 20231 min read
A Good Person (released 3/24/23)
It was hard to find a showing of this movie. I was actually super excited to see a drama featuring Florence Pugh and Morgan Freeman. This...
Apr 8, 20231 min read
Air (released 4/5/23)
This movie was a much more fun time than I expected. This movie is a biopic about how the famous Air Jordans came to be. The cast was all...
Mar 25, 20231 min read
Inside (released 3/17/23)
This movie 100% could have been an alternate universe Green Goblin origin story. Willem Defoe plays an art thief trying to steal some...
Mar 12, 20231 min read
Champions (released 3/10/23)
I will be straight up and say this is a very formulaic sports dramedy. It follows in a similar path that was done in the first Mighty...
Mar 9, 20231 min read
Creed II (2018)
Do you want Rocky 2,3, and 4 combined into one movie? Here is that movie. The focus is on Adonis getting engaged and having a baby: Rocky...
Mar 8, 20231 min read
Creed (2015)
Ryan Coogler did an awesome job of injecting his own flair into the movie while keeping what made the Rocky movies great. There was the...
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