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Meg 2: The Trench (2023) Review
Meg 2: The Trench (2023)Director: Ben WheatleyScreenwriters: Jon Hoeber, Erich Hoeber, Dean GeorgarisStarring: Jason Statham, Wu Jing, Cliff Curtis, Shuya Sophia Cai, Page Kennedy, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Skyler Samuels, Melissanthi Mahut The events of Meg 2: The Trench take place five years after The Meg. The same amount of time has passed in real life for…
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Sharksploitation (2023) Review
Sharksploitation (2023)Director: Stephen ScarlataScreenwriters: Stephen ScarlataStarring: Roger Corman, Joe Dante, Paul Bales, Joe Alves, Mark Atkins, Wendy Benchley Sharksploitation is a documentary into the kind of film you know and love and hate, sometimes love to hate, sometimes hate to love, and didn’t think there needed to be a documentary for. Currently available to stream…
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Talk to Me (2022) Review
Talk to Me (2022)Directors: Danny Philippou, Michael PhilippouScreenwriters: Danny Philippou, Bill HinzmanStarring: Sophie Wilde, Alexandra Jensen, Joe Bird, Otis Dhanji, Miranda Otto, Zoe Terakes, Chris Alosio As the creators of the wildly popular YouTube channel RackaRacka, famous for parodies of Harry Potter, Star Wars and even Ronald McDonald, Danny and Michael Philippou are perhaps not…
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They Cloned Tyrone (2023) Review
They Cloned Tyrone (2023)Director: Juel TaylorScreenwriters: Tony Rettenmaier, Juel TaylorStarring: John Boyega, Jamie Foxx, Teyonah Parris, Keifer Sutherland A pimp, a sex worker and a drug dealer uncover a massive government plot playing out (quite literally) beneath their noses. It’s not quite the usual set up for a mystery sci-fi thriller, but Juel Taylor’s feature-length…
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‘The Piano’ at 30 – Review
The Piano (1993)Director: Jane CampionScreenwriter: Jane CampionStarring: Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, Anna Paquin Jane Campion’s The Piano begins with a monologue from Ada McGrath, a young Scottish woman who, for reasons that are never fully explained, stops speaking at the age of 6. She cautions us that the voice we hear, the high…
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Barbie (2023) Review
Barbie (2023)Director Greta GerwigScreenwriters: Greta Gerwig, Noah BaumbachStarring: Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, America Ferrera, Ariana Greenblatt, Kate McKinnon, Issa Rae, Hari Nef, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Simu Liu, Rhea Pearlman, Will Ferrell Barbie (2023), directed by Greta Gerwig and co-written by Gerwig and partner Noah Baumbach, shattered records this weekend, earning the highest-grossing opening of 2023 so…
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Oppenheimer (2023) Review
Oppenheimer (2023)Director: Christopher NolanScreenwriter: Christopher NolanStarring: Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr, Emily Blunt, Florence Pugh, Matt Damon, David Dastmalchian, Dane DeHaan, Josh Peck, Rami Malek, David Krumholtz, Benny Safdie “We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from…
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Theater Camp (2023) Review
Theater Camp (2023)Directors: Molly Gordon, Nick LiebermanScreenwriters: Noah Galvin, Molly Gordon, Nick Lieberman, Ben PlattStarring: Molly Gordon, Ben Platt, Noah Galvin, Jimmy Tatro, Ayo Edebiri The New York premiere of the much-anticipated comedy, Theater Camp, was an understated yet surprisingly lively event. Less than 24 hours after the SAG strike went into effect, the film…
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Quicksand (2023) Review
Quicksand (2023) ReviewDirector: Andres BeltranScreenwriter: Matt PittsStarring: Carolina Gaitán, Allan Hawco, Sebastian Eslava, Andrés Castañeda There’s a moment in this film, now available to stream on Shudder, where our two main characters, who invariably get stuck in a pit of quicksand (if you didn’t get that from the title of the film), are trying to…
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The Out-Laws (2023) Review
The Out-Laws (2023)Director: Tyler SpindelScreenwriters: Ben Zazove, Evan TurnerStarring: Adam DeVine, Nina Dobrev, Pierce Brosnan, Ellen Barkin, Lauren Lapkus, Poorna Jagannathan, Lil Rey Howery, Richard Kind, Julie Hagerty When a film starts with the Happy Madison Productions logo card, we know what we’re about to get. 50 First Dates, Click, Grown Ups, take your pick.…