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Now Emmy-season shoo-ins, HBO original films were once largely indiscernible from skinflint, straight-to-video action schlock. Boasting titles like Fever, Fortress, Blind Side, Blue Ice or…
Shin Ultraman is a loving tribute to the classic 1960s version of the tokusatsu franchise wrapped in a frustrating, poorly directed shell. For incoming audiences…
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Broker arrives more ready for a Westernized remake than any of the Japanese writer-director’s previous mainstream-minded meditations on the fluid meanings of family…
Part of Tom Hanks’ appeal (at least for me) is that he never shies away from sentimental material. But he really should’ve stopped himself from…
Colton Briggs (Nicolas Cage) is the toughest U.S. Marshal in the American west. He’s a madman with a six-shooter whose skill for murder is second…
Every few years since his 2014 coronation with Whiplash, writer-director Damien Chazelle has dropped something radically different — first, a full-blown original musical in 2016’s…
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Petit Mal sets out to explore the nature of a polyamorous relationship with all its ups and downs — many of which are the same…
Disney+ recently aired the first season of a new fantasy TV series, Willow. It’s about a sorcerer played by Warwick Davis leading a group of…
Raymond Lewis could’ve been the best in the NBA if he’d been truly given a shot. He made a name for himself on the streets…
Razzennest is a clever and pointed satire of the way films are consumed by the contemporary commentariat. It is also a pretty effective nuts-and-bolts audio-horror…
Having seen the totality of Edward Drake's Detective Knight trilogy, I can confidently say Detective Knight: Independence is the best of the three. The first,…
"There are no cowboy cops. And they've killed all our heroes." Detective Knight: Redemption is a considerable improvement over Detective Knight: Rogue but it still…