The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (2023)- The Rise of a Monster
Back in 2012, the release of The Hunger Games became a cultural phenomenon, and practically opened the floodgates to the young adult...
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Noah Kloss
- Nov 7
- 4 min
Barbie (2023): A Smart Story from a Dumb Concept
I’ll be the first to say it, I sort of rolled my eyes at the idea of a Barbie movie, even with indie darling Greta Gerwig directing and...
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Michael Li
- Nov 5
- 4 min
The Flash (2023): Entertaining and Highly Frustrating
Oh boy, Ezra Miller. Where should I even start? Back in 2014, Miller was an up-and-coming indie film star with roles from movies such as...
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Michael Li
- Oct 30
- 5 min
Five Nights at Freddy’s (2023)—A Horror Movie Devoid of Any Horror or Fun
Happy Halloween folks! If there are two things I like, it’s both horror movies and video game adaptations. Oh wait, I hate most video...
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Noah Kloss
- Oct 11
- 3 min
Lights Over Montgomery County (2023): A Different Take on Found Footage
I can’t say I am the biggest fan of horror movies, but there are a few that have definitely taken me by surprise or can say have...
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Michael Li
- May 4
- 5 min
Ghost (2023)—Action, Scares and above all else, Fun!
Before I get started, I want to make a disclaimer that this is NOT a review of the Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore movie Ghost. Now that...
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Owen Gonzalez
- Apr 6
- 3 min
Who Needs It? (2023): Feature Length Couples Counseling
Therapy is something that has received much more positively now than before. Much of its negativity has to do with a stigma that’s...
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Michael Li
- Apr 2
- 4 min
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)—Faithful, Family and Fun!
Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) is one of the most popular board and strategy games, beloved by people from the 1980s to today. However, it...
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Noah Kloss
- Mar 29
- 4 min
Scream VI (2023): I Will Try Not To Spoil This Movie
Okay, we all know how a Scream movie works these days, and I do know that much of the cast and crew are preferring everyone to redact any...
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Michael Li
- Mar 26
- 4 min
John Wick Chapter 4 (2023)—Pure Violent Cinematic Art
Back in 2014, Keanu Reeves marked his Hollywood comeback with the sleeper hit John Wick. The film was a simple story of a former assassin...
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Noah Kloss
- Mar 22
- 4 min
The Last of Us Season 1 (2023-): The Masterpiece that Breaks the Video Game Curse
It should to no one’s surprise that video game adaptations often are duds among both critics and fans of the source material alike. And...
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Michael Li
- Mar 19
- 4 min
Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023)—Lightning Doesn’t Always Strike Twice
Back in 2019, Warner Brothers released their sleeper hit Shazam! which not only breathed new life into the dying DC Extended Universe but...
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Michael Li
- Mar 13
- 5 min
The Whale (2022)—An Honest Look at Religious Trauma
Back in the 1990s, Brendan Fraser was a huge star with several leading roles such as George of the Jungle, Encino Man and The Mummy films...
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Michael Li
- Mar 5
- 5 min
Creed III (2023)—Breathtakingly Brutal and Heartwarming
The Rocky Balboa film franchise has been the staple of cinema and pop culture ever since the first Rocky film was released in theaters in...
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Michael Li
- Feb 19
- 4 min
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)—Marvel Meets Star Wars
The Ant-Man films have never really impressed me. Although the first film was a solid heist film with effective humor sprinkled in, the...
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Michael Li
- Feb 18
- 4 min
Doomsday Stories (2023): Confused, Disjointed and Contrived
Who doesn’t love a good apocalypse film? A scenario where the world gets infected by a deadly virus and goes into global shutdown is a...
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Michael Li
- Feb 8
- 4 min
Knock at the Cabin (2023)—Violent Jehovah’s Witnesses and The Apocalypse
Back in the beginning of his career, director M. Night Shyamalan was almost untouchable with his first feature film The Sixth Sense....
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Michael Li
- Jan 23
- 3 min
M3GAN (2023)—Grief, Emotional Attachment and Moving On
Who’s reading this and has a fear of creepy dolls? What if I told you that this movie not only deals with a creepy doll, but a creepy...
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Michael Li
- Jan 6
- 3 min
Westermarck Effect (2022): Controversial Subject Matter, Decent Film
It’s no surprise that relationships are difficult to navigate. Finding people who you not only share the same values and interests in...
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Michael Li
- Dec 13, 2022
- 4 min
Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022)—What it Means to be a Real Boy
The tale of Pinocchio dates all the way back to 1883 from Florence, Italy by a writer named Carlo Collodi. Much like many other famous...
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