Birds of Prey came in well below studio and industry expectations, battling a slew of Oscar-nominated movies as well as other popular movies in their latest weeks of release. Was it the quality of the …
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DramaReviews
An Injustice in Storytelling: ‘Just Mercy’ Drowns Its Urgent Message in Superficiality
by Nick Kushby Nick KushThe last bit of text before the credits come over the screen in Just Mercy reads “For every 9 people who have been executed in the U.S., one person on death row has been proven …
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is still going strong in its third weekend at the box office, though still below its predecessor’s gross. It’s followed by Jumanji: The Next Level in its fourth weekend. Little …
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HorrorReviews
‘Doctor Sleep’ is at Its Worst When Calling Back to ‘The Shining’
by Nick Kushby Nick KushI don’t envy the nearly impossible task that director Mike Flanagan had in developing Doctor Sleep. Not only would he have to successfully adapt what is, by all accounts, a fairly sprawling work by Stephen …
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Joker has been out for about a month now, and over the course of that month, it managed to take over meme culture, stir up some unneeded controversy, and gross well over $900 million (and …
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A movie entitled “Joker” has arrived in theaters. Odds are that you may have heard about it. Maybe. Joker is all over the place from fire memes to fire think pieces. Everyone has an opinion, …
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ReviewsSuperhero
‘Joker’ is a Seemingly Provocative Yet Ultimately Empty Genre Exercise
by Nick Kushby Nick KushWith Joker being such a blatant homage to the works of Martin Scorsese and other filmmakers that told scuzzy New York dramas in the 1970s and 1980s, it’s interesting timing that Scorsese himself, while on …
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2017’s It remains one of the most surprising smash hits of the decade. People went nuts over it, and it started another round of Stephen King adaptations in Hollywood. Two years later, we’re back in …
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HorrorReviews
‘It Chapter Two’ Loses Much of What Made Its Predecessor So Great
by Olaf Lesniakby Olaf LesniakTruth time: It Chapter Two failed me. It (2017) remains one of the biggest surprises and smash-hits of its respective year. I loved it so much that I saw it multiple times in theaters. The …
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ABC’s 1990 It miniseries was the first adaption of Stephen King’s classic novel of the same name and has since become an enduring cult classic. The miniseries put a face to the horrific Pennywise the …
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White Heat (1949) rolled out of Warner Bros at an interesting time for Hollywood and its genre circus. It came long after the heyday of the studios’ rise and fall of gangster pictures in the …
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DramaReviews
‘Blinded by the Light’ is So Damn Corny, But So Damn Sweet and Endearing
by Nick Kushby Nick KushSpend five seconds scrolling through Twitter and you’re immediately inundated with existential dread from the impending doom of our entire species. The Amazon is up in flames, many countries are on the verge of political …
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You’ve heard it time and time again: “Blade Runner was a flop in theaters”, “no one liked The Thing when it first came out”, “The Shawshank Redemption was a belated classic,” etc. The hard, well-known …
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Action/AdventureReviews
Film Review – Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)
by Chris Wagerby Chris WagerI had a rollercoaster of emotions after watching Godzilla: King of the Monsters. As a huge Godzilla fan dating back to my childhood, I was extremely giddy and pumped that I was able to experience …
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I have a confession to make — I’m a closet Pokémon fan. I was obsessed with it after its 90’s debut. And while time and maturity has tempered that, that love never fully vanished. So …
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PodcastsThe MovieBabble Podcast
‘The Lego Movie 2’ Falls Short of Box Office Expectations (The MovieBabble Podcast Ep. 6)
While it’s been a critical success, The Lego Movie 2 isn’t shaping up to be the same box office success as its predecessor. The film grossed an estimated $34.4 million over its opening weekend. In …
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It always feels like animation that isn’t the standard 3D, CGI look that Pixar and Disney throws at us a few times a year is often left behind, as if it’s inaccessible like some pretentious …
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Picture this: an elderly U.S Army veteran who grows and sells flowers decides to become a drug runner in a time of need. Clint Eastwood directs and returns to act in a film that fits …
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On December 15th, 1978, Richard Donner made the world believe a man could fly. Superman was a watershed in special effects, music, and most importantly, how we see superheroes on the big screen. In a …
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Streaming Action/AdventureStreaming Reviews
Film Review – Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle (2018)
by Olaf Lesniakby Olaf LesniakIt’s as if it was only yesterday that we watched Disney’s live-action remake of The Jungle Book in theaters. Now Warner Bros. and Netflix are teaming up to deliver Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle. Comparisons between the two …
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Every year has an animated film that sells its cast to the high heavens in the promotional material while simultaneously angering voice actors everywhere. Seriously Smallfoot, you couldn’t look around for true professionals in this field? …
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Here we go again: another film set in The Conjuring Universe. At the end of Annabelle: Creation, viewers were teased about a solo film about the demonic entity known as Valak the Demonic Nun who first …
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The Conjuring Universe is going to expand much wider this weekend as The Nun hits theaters. The film will explore the origin of the disturbing manifestation of a Nun, which first appeared in The Conjuring …
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I am a week late to the conversation, seeing as how most of the reviews and articles about a movie show up a day or two after its release. I watched Crazy Rich Asians a few …
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