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in ReviewsFilm Review: ‘Sonic the Hedgehog 2’ is Yet Another Middle-of-the-Road Video Game Movie
Back in 2019, when the first trailer dropped for the first Sonic the Hedgehog movie, many people went into it with many low expectations. Some were surprised that it wasn’t half bad, but some also thought it fell into a similar category to that of Pokemon: Detective Pikachu, where charm and humor didn’t necessarily make […] More
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Film Review: ‘Sing 2’ Has the Music But Not the Story to Succeed
Sing was a huge smash, so a sequel was downright inevitable. The obvious challenge with a follow-up to Sing was where to take the plot. Do you go bigger? Do you just sort of traffic in the same sort of material? Sing 2 opts to do both, which makes for strange bedfellows. A film that […] More
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Film Review: ‘The Harder They Fall’ Oozes Modern Cool in the Old West
Westerns usually fall into one of two categories these days. They either try to be a classical throwback, or more commonly, they try to be revisionist. We’ve seen the revisionist western in numerous forms over the years, including procedurals like Copland and even comic book far like Logan. Interestingly, the new film The Harder They […] More
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Film Review: ‘The Suicide Squad’ is an Instant Classic from James Gunn and Cinematic Nirvana
Wow. For a few weeks now, the buzz had steadily been building that James Gunn had really pulled off something special with The Suicide Squad. Well, now I can add to the chorus of early raves. This is a magnificent achievement, literally as good as it gets for comic book films. Far more than just […] More
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‘The Suicide Squad’ Gets a Stylish New Trailer
David Ayer‘s 2016 film Suicide Squad proved to be an almost universally disliked movie amongst both audiences and critics alike. But when it was announced last year that Guardians of the Galaxy filmmaker James Gunn would be in the director’s chair for a brand new reboot titled The Suicide Squad that promised to right the […] More
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R-Rated Antics Ensue in ‘The Suicide Squad’ Red-Band Trailer
Ready for some anti-hero gore? James Gunn is prepared to bring it to you this summer. Margot Robbie, Idris Elba, John Cena, and many other high-profile actors star in Gunn’s “soft reboot” of 2016’s Suicide Squad called (get ready) The Suicide Squad. The movie is set to hit theaters and HBO Max on August 6. […] More
