Ready or Not's premise is as simple as it is devastatingly ludicrous: At every wedding the Le Domas family, an insanely wealthy board-gaming dynastic family, play a simple game at midnight to welcome the newest member of the family. This year it is Grace's (Samara Weaving) turn as the eldest son's bride to blindly draw …
Trying to cram Stephen King's massive tome It into one movie was always going to be an impossible task. The decision back in 2014, when the It project was still a Cary Fukunaga project and not an Andi Muschietti joint, to split the movies by timeline certainly was controversial as King's weaving between the past and present lent the …
For the last half-decade or so, cinephiles and Quentin Tarantino-fans have been sifting the tea leaves with every new Tarantino release to see if he was looking to stop after making ten movies, a claim he has insisted on multiple times. With Once Upon A Time ... In Hollywood, his presumably penultimate film, we finally get …
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First let me get this minor SPOILER out of the way (mostly for my Mom): No, Mom, none of the dogs die. You can watch it in peace now. At some point in the baroquely titled John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum you are reminded in a very humorous way that at its core, the John Wick series is ostensibly …
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(As the title above suggests, this review will contain SPOILERS. Proceed at your own discretion.) There is no more an unenviable task than trying to stick the landing on a finale. This is even more so when that finale happens to be the capstone to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), a sprawling 11 year and 22 movie …
At some point in every kid's life they have probably spent an inordinate amount of time dreaming about what it would be like to be a superhero. Shazam!, the latest in DC Comic's cinematic universe, is the first of the genre to directly tap into that childhood wish fulfillment as it reimagines Big as a superhero movie, thus …
As is now my tradition, this is my public historical record of my personal Oscar ballot that will either validate my personal genius or forever serve as evidence of my dumb hubris. Last year I went a stunningly accurate 21 for 24 in the awards with all my major misses coming from the crapshoot short …
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