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 19
- 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 14, 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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Michael Li
- Dec 4, 2022
- 3 min
Violent Night (2022)—Better Behave this Christmas!
Have you been naughty this Christmas? Better watch out, because Santa’s coming for you! In all seriousness, despite what some may say,...
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Noah Kloss
- Nov 21, 2022
- 3 min
The Menu (2022): Unpredictable, Unnerving, and Utterly Hilarious!
There are movies this year that have completely blown everyone away, from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and Top Gun: Maverick. However...
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Noah Kloss
- Nov 15, 2022
- 5 min
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)—An Emotional Tribute to a Beloved Icon
In 2016, T’Challa/Black Panther made his Marvel Cinematic Universe debut in Captain America: Civil War to much acclaim from both fans and...
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Noah Kloss
- Oct 30, 2022
- 3 min
Werewolf By Night (2022): Marvel Enters Beast Mode
Much of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s TV efforts have been extremely hit-or-miss, depending upon the viewer. Most fans of the MCU are...
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Michael Li
- Oct 24, 2022
- 4 min
Black Adam (2022): The Resurrection of the DCEU?
The DC Extended Universe (DCEU) is a universe everyone desperately wants to be excellent, yet they have garnered more disappointments...
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