What if Groundhog Day wasn’t a movie about a weatherman trapped in an unexplainable time loop but instead presented it as a daily re-do of his own choosing? Well, if you squint your eyes a little and cock your head, you can kinda see that’s exactly what director Robert Schwartzman (brother of […]
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I’m Thinking of Ending Things
A creepy Lynchian mind-trip from Charlie Kaufman (writer of “Eternal Sunshine…”). Great performances, direction, and cinematography… but you gotta be in the right head space to get through it. 4/5 stars
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Mulan (2020)
Beautifully shot (by “The Zookeeper’s Wife” director Niki Caro), this live-action film bears little resemblance to the 1998 Disney animated classic, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. The uplifting tale is undercut by no shortage of controversy, calls for boycott, and other thorny considerations, but as a stand-alone film, […]
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Love, Guaranteed
For a movie that seems like something stolen directly from The Hallmark Channel’s production room (right down to the casting of Hallmark mainstay Rachel Leigh Cook), Netflix’s new cheeseball rom-com Love, Guaranteed actually has a few things going for it (not the least of which is, in fact, Cook). Yes, it’s corny […]
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Tenet
Christopher Nolan’s latest may require a monumental effort to fully comprehend (I’ll wager Nolan himself still doesn’t understand parts of it… and he wrote the damn thing), but this mind-melding, time-jumpy bit of cinematic brilliance is one to just sit back and enjoy before watching it a second (and third) […]
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Class Action Park
Yes, kids, long ago there really was a place called Action Park. From 1978 to 1996, it attracted mainly teenagers primarily from the New York area to a quaint little grassy knoll an hour outside of town in the northernmost part of New Jersey. The place was a no-holds-barred, largely […]
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The Binge
If you feel like you’ve been waiting all your life for someone to finally make a raunchy comedy about teenagers bonding over a night of hedonistic excess, well it’s finally here. (I kid, of course. Is there a trope in existence that has been overplayed more?) And, just as you’d […]
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Get Duked!
While not exactly the second coming of Danny Boyle, Ninian Doff clearly shows plenty of promise in Get Duked! (née Boyz in the Wood), his directorial debut—now streaming on Amazon Prime. A hilarious and biting mash-up of The Hunt and Trainspotting, with a little added whiff of Dazed and Confused, the film plays like an anti-establishment, millennial-friendly […]
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Bill & Ted Face the Music
Finally available at a non-premium price, the trilogy conclusion wraps things up in fine fashion. Fun and entertaining (and not nearly as juvenile/dumb as the first two films), it’s a nifty little diversion. I wouldn’t suggest you travel through space and time to watch it, but there’s plenty to love […]
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Unhinged
The answer to the trivia question, “What was the first movie to open in theaters following the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown?”, this pedestrian thriller has so many plot holes, tropey coincidences, and inexplicable character decisions that it’s hard to watch it with a straight face. As road rage movies go, it […]
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