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Top 100 Films of 2000s: Part 6 (#50-41)

UPDATE: Apologies this has taken me so long to get out, this will now be released weekly (mid-week) every week moving forward. Since it’s been so long let’s re-cap: Top 100 Films of 2000s: Part 1 (#100-91) Top 100 Films of 2000s: Part 2 (#90-81) Top 100 Films of 2000s: Part 3 (#80-71) Top 100Continue reading “Top 100 Films of 2000s: Part 6 (#50-41)”

2024 Movie Reviews: Godzilla x Kong / The Beast / The Last Stop in Yuma County / No Way Up

Two shits, two legits. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire As King Kong and Godzilla roared to each other as loud as they could, my sleep apneaic snores matched them note for note. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire has to be the most boring, one-note, soulless mainstream action blockbuster released this year. I feltContinue reading “2024 Movie Reviews: Godzilla x Kong / The Beast / The Last Stop in Yuma County / No Way Up”

2024 Movie & TV Reviews: The Bear / MaXXXine / Beverly Hills Cop 4 / Interview with the Vampire

Chefs, vampires, serial killers and Eddie Murphy. The Bear Season 3 The Bear might be the most popular scripted series currently on the air. An instant smash hit when it debuted back in 2022, it only grew bigger and bigger with each passing episode until, by the end of Season 2, everyone declared it thisContinue reading “2024 Movie & TV Reviews: The Bear / MaXXXine / Beverly Hills Cop 4 / Interview with the Vampire”

2024 TV & Movie Reviews: The Bikeriders / Kinds of Kindness / Fantasmas / Stopmotion

Nothing bad this week. The Bikeriders I’m a fan of writer/director Jeff Nichols. The Arkansas-born filmmaker has proven his versatility time and time again, seamlessly switching from end-of-the-world parables to science fiction to even a modern-day retelling of Mark Twain‘s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Whatever the genre he’s working in, he always finds very humanContinue reading “2024 TV & Movie Reviews: The Bikeriders / Kinds of Kindness / Fantasmas / Stopmotion”

2024 Movie Reviews: The Watchers / Hit Man / Ren Faire

The Watchers The Watchers is an exhausting watch but not in the way…let’s say an Ingmar Bergman picture would be. Nope, it’s not utterly mind-ravaging in the way a well-executed but intensely cerebral avant-garde thriller from Europe would be. The Watchers is belligerently debilitating because at no point does any supporting character stop verbal diarrhea-ingContinue reading “2024 Movie Reviews: The Watchers / Hit Man / Ren Faire”

2024 TV & Movie Reviews: Hacks / The Sympathizer / In A Violent Nature / Movie Pass Movie Crash

Hacks One of the best comedy series of the past ten years is finally back for a third season, and while it doesn’t quite reach the heights of its near-perfect first and second seasons, it’s a lot funnier than anything on television right now. When we last left, Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) and Ava DanielsContinue reading “2024 TV & Movie Reviews: Hacks / The Sympathizer / In A Violent Nature / Movie Pass Movie Crash”

2024 TV & Movie Reviews: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga / Baby Reindeer / I Saw the TV Glow / Snack Shack / Conan Must Go / The Contestant

Disappointments and surprises this week. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga Theaters are likely going away, at least how we’ve known them for the past 100+ years. Streaming is here, and everyone has a big T.V., so even though we can’t replicate the theater experience exactly in our homes, we can come close. This means studiosContinue reading “2024 TV & Movie Reviews: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga / Baby Reindeer / I Saw the TV Glow / Snack Shack / Conan Must Go / The Contestant”

Top 100 Films of 2000s: Part 5 (#60-51)

Around the time I started this site, I did a “Top 100 of the 1990s” with the intention of doing a new decade every year. I had meant to do a new decade every year, but as with life, stuff came up. I got overwhelmed by my primary responsibilities on this site: reviewing new filmContinue reading “Top 100 Films of 2000s: Part 5 (#60-51)”

2024 TV & Movie Reviews: Fallout / Challengers / Shōgun / Chucky / Drive Away Dolls / Saw X

Mostly great stuff this week. Fallout “Based on a video game” used to be the worst thing you could ever hear about a movie. Resident Evil, Silent Hill, House of the Dead, Street Fighter, Doom, Max Payne, any Uwe Boll adaptation—all terrible. The live-action Mortal Kombat movie from 1995 is very fun to watch, but its sequel, Annihilation, is a strong contender for one ofContinue reading “2024 TV & Movie Reviews: Fallout / Challengers / Shōgun / Chucky / Drive Away Dolls / Saw X”

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