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A.I. girls, wooden boys, Indian revolutionaries, Austrian royalty, talking women and Silicon Valley dirt bags. M3GAN Not nearly as fun or funny as most critics and moviegoers are making it out to be – comparisons to Barbarian and Malignant (same writer tho) are wholly unmerited – but as far as January garbage dump cinema goes,Continue reading “2023 TV & Movie Reviews: M3GAN / Women Talking / RRR / Mythic Quest / Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio / Corsage”

Off the top of my head, I can’t think of a year where the movies were so spectacularly bested by television. To give you an idea, the quality of TV in my honorable mentions are roughly the same quality as the movies in the middle of my Top 10 Films list. It’s a cliche toContinue reading “Top 10 TV of 2022 w/ Honorable Mentions”

TV kicked cinema’s ass this year, there’s no question about it. It wasn’t even close. While the movies offered a handful of great films, “television” offered excellent series after excellent series, continuing to expand the bounds and capabilities of the medium. Within it, there were some amazing performances. If I could, I’d make a TopContinue reading “25 Best TV Performances of 2022”

Rich people, famous people, Martin Lawrence and a whale. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery A major step down from the much simpler and funnier original, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is a moderately entertaining movie that’s an easy enough watch. After a groan-tastic twenty minutes of meeting a parade of uninteresting caricatures basedContinue reading “2022 Movie Reviews: Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery / Babylon / The Whale / Mindcage”

Last year, celebrated Twitter user Audrey Farnsworth and myself watched and reviewed six 2021 Hallmark Christmas Movies. This year in the interest of time, we’ve had to scale back and review only three. Unfortunately, we did not have time to watch and give you reviews of such 2022 Holiday Hallmark films as: Lights, Camera, Christmas!Continue reading “2022 Hallmark Christmas Movie Reviews w/ Audrey Farnsworth”

A horror sub-genre of the Holiday Horror sub-genre is Killer Santa Movie sub-genre. From dark exploitation movies to lighter comedy-heavy gore fests to awkward foreign films featuring a hundred senior citizen penises, we’ve seen maybe ten or twelve Killer Santa movies over the years. For this article, I’m joined by local actress/singer/puppeteer Jennie Rhiner whoContinue reading “Killer Santa Movies w/ Jennie Rhiner”

Lots of water this week. Avatar: The Way of Water I got my ass out of bed at 8:30am Sunday morning to go see the 9:30am IMAX 3D High Frame Rate showing of Avatar 2 at AZ Mills, a three hour and fifteen minute sequel to a movie that was released over a decade ago.Continue reading “2022 TV & Movie Reviews: Avatar: The Way of Water / Industry / Triangle of Sadness / After Yang”

Young doctors, rich assholes, American heroes and boring people who work at a movie theater. The White Lotus (Season 2) Season 2 of The White Lotus is a huge drop in quality from the near perfect Season 1. As much as I enjoyed seeing Jennifer Coolidge‘s hilariously inept Tanya back at it again, the restContinue reading “2022 TV & Movie Reviews: The White Lotus / Marcel the Shell with Shoes On / Empire of Light / Till / This is Going to Hurt”

Vampires, Santa and Aubrey Plaza. Let’s say a prayer for peace. Violent Night Maybe it’s just because I was expecting this to be terrible, but I had an honest to goodness great time with Violent Night, a seriously fun Die Hard riff where Santa is John McClane and The Pest is Hans Gruber. The reasonContinue reading “2022 TV & Movie Reviews: Violent Night / Interview with the Vampire / Emily the Criminal”

Lotsa offerings this Thanksgiving weekend. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever The road to catastrophe is paved with the best intentions, and while I don’t think Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is exactly a catastrophe, it certainly struggles as a Marvel movie. It begins with a literal funeral for T’Challa and a metaphorical one for Chadwick Boseman. TheseContinue reading “2022 TV & Movie Reviews: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever / The Fabelmans / The Menu / Atlanta / Bones and All / Chucky / Causeway / Resurrection”