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Watching the trailer for “Hustlers” gives an impression about a female-centric con-job style film with lots of stripping and quick pacing. Most of the marketing efforts has been around selling that kind of tone and it being the type of female-helmed cast not seen since Oceans 8. Well if there’s a con job, it’s that […]

When you get around to the third film of an action franchise, there needs as with each installment to be something that happens to push the stakes (or at least the action) further than before. We need to continue to care about the characters at least enough to have us stick around for a few […]

”Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark” is a genuinely solid horror film, and its effectiveness is all the more impressive since it only had a PG-13 rating to work with. Adapted for the screen by producer Guillermo del Toro from three volumes of illustrated horror novels for children, the film brings contemporary jump scares and […]

Quentin Tarantino is one of cinema’s contemporary auteurs. When you’re going into a Tarantino film, you have a strong sense of what you’re in for – a highly stylized, violent, mythic version of the world. His pantheon of “Kill Bill,” “Hateful Eight,” “Django Unchained,” “Pulp Fiction,” and others all fit into that genre. Now with […]

Stuber is one of those contemporary action movies that you can take almost anyone to see.

“Marvel: Endgame” may have been the last of the main Avengers arc, but “Spider-Man: Far From Home” showcases that Marvel’s presence on the big screen is anything but fading.

“Yesterday“, starring Himesh Patel in his first theatrical role is an interesting entry into the wish-fulfillment family of films. Patel stars as Jack Malik, a bottom rung pub musician who plays Beatles covers to crowds of nearly a half dozen (and most of those his friends). One day he wakes up to find that the […]

The last several days of news cycles have included more than a few articles espousing the levels of graphic sex, nudity, drug abuse, and general debauchery to be found in HBO’s latest teen drama, Euphoria. The full-frontal penis count seems to nearly overshadowed much of the rest of the discourse. Every few years there’s a […]

Men in Black: International could nearly be billed as an alternate-reality version sequel to Thor: Ragnarok. Not only does it see Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson side by side as co-stars again, it’s filled with joke-quipping aliens to the extent that you start to really wish that Taika Waititi’s Korg would put in an appearance. […]

After 2018’s biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody, about Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, it seems that it’s time for retrospectives looking into the lives and careers of some of the late 20th-century musical icons. However where  Rhapsody was a super-sanitized and wildly fictionalized account of Mercury’s career, the new Rocketman, starring Taron Egerton as the similarly unique Elton John, is a fantasy-laced full-bore musical that carries far more truth and energy than it’s predecessor.