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in TV, TV ReviewsTV Review: ‘Ramy’ Returns for Its Best Season Yet
Ramy Youssef delivers another stroke of genius in his third season of “Ramy,” which sees its characters at their most emotional. More
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TV Review: ‘Better Call Saul’ Keeps Getting Better As Its Characters Break Bad
Better Call Saul fans rejoice, season six of the Saul Goodman story is now upon us. When the series premiered it started its run with some real challenges. It was a followup to what was and remains to be widely seen as one of the best television series of all-time, Breaking Bad. This meant it […] More
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Film Review: ‘Studio 666’ Rocks In the Key of G Major – for Major Gore
For the last couple of decades the Foo Fighters have helped carry the torch of the once dying art of music videos. As the MTV era faded and the YouTube era began, Foo Fighters consistently delivered some of the best music videos of all time. Each video was funny, well-produced, and most of all entertaining. […] More
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The Verse Episode 23: ‘Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings’ Discussed
We shift gears this week to review Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, starring Simu Liu, Awkwafina, and Tony Leung. Simu plays Shang-Chi, a trained assassin and martial arts master trying to live his new life away from his father and the terrorist group he founded. But he’s in for the family […] More
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Film Review: ‘Beckett’ Finds John David Washington On the Run Through Greece
Netflix has become known for releasing original films that are either mammoth in scale and/or prestige (think The Irishman and Army of the Dead) or tiny little productions (things like Paddleton and Horse Girl). As is the case with the majority of Hollywood, there isn’t much room for the star-driven mid-budget films that we saw […] More
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TV Review: A Morality Tale Plays Out in the Harsh Landscape of ‘The North Water’
A brutal landscape provides the setting for a showdown between good and evil in The North Water, a five-part limited series from creator Andrew Haigh streaming now on AMC+. Based on the novel by Ian McGuire, Haigh (Weekend, 45 Years) wrote and directed the series, starring Jack O’Connell as Patrick Sumner, a disgraced former army […] More
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Film Review: Isabelle Huppert Breaks Bad as ‘Mama Weed’
For many viewers, all you’ll need to hear is “Isabelle Huppert plays a drug smuggler named Mama Weed” in order to book your front row seat for Jean-Paul Salomé’s new crime caper. It’s easy to see why, as Huppert is one of the best actors we have today, making each new project she takes on […] More
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Film Review: ‘Gunpowder Milkshake’ Brings Refreshing Energy and Creativity to the Action Game
With most of Hollywood’s tentpole productions mining whatever decades-old IP they can get their hands on, it’s pretty rare for a completely original property to exist at all, let alone to build out a world so enticing that you want to come back for another round the moment it’s over. Perhaps that’s why Gunpowder Milkshake […] More
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TV Review: ‘I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson’ is the Funniest Show No One is Watching
At the dawn of the streaming era, Netflix had only three ‘Netflix Originals’ (Lillyhammer, House of Cards and Orange is the New Black), now they have hundreds. With that many pieces of television, shows go undetected by the mainstream. As a result, competition from even the same streaming service steal from the viewership some shows […] More
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Film Review: ‘Cruella’ is Devilishly Good Fun
I believed I had grown tired with the origin story. The once fresh concept had long ago grown stale to the point that even the phrase had taken on negative connotations. My fear was that Cruella would be one of those creatively stale films that dragged out the iconic villainess, only to put her through […] More
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Film Review: ‘The Climb’ Reaches New Heights Through Innovation
There are those movies you will always remember because they try something you have not seen before; something innovative that breathes freshness into a familiar premise. The Climb is one of those films. The story of two close friends who have their friendship tested by a woman that comes between them sounds like a film […] More
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FILM REVIEW: ‘Wolfwalkers’ Runs Wild with Cinematic Magic
The power of a line is amazing. Lines on maps have started (and ended) wars and have divided people. Lines of dialogue or prose have inspired and entertained people for centuries. In art, lines can tell a story, express emotions, capture the beauty of a moment, and much more. Wolfwalkers, the latest film from Cartoon […] More
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