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2019 Drama

The Lighthouse

               The Lighthouse isn’t a horror film. You can ignore all of the nonsense marketing and media blurbs about how scary this movie is, because it isn’t. The Lighthouse is a drama. If you temper your expectations accordingly, this is not an awful movie. It is a marvel of cinematography and has performances that will […]

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2019 Action Science Fiction Superhero

Captain Marvel

               “Finally, a female superhero on the big screen!” presumably said somebody in 1984 when Supergirl was released to theaters. Since then, the only female comic heroes that have made it into the movies are Batgirl, The Invisible Woman, Catwoman, Storm, Rogue, Mystique, Kitty Pryde, Jubilee, Psylocke, Elektra, Jean Grey, Black Widow, Scarlet Witch, Gamora, […]

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2019 Thriller

The Intruder

               The Intruder is directed by a guy named Deon Taylor and I would like to begin with an actual excerpt from his biography on IMDB: “A prolific writer, filmmaker, director and idea generator, Deon Taylor is a self-taught, creative genius. His work is innovative, his writing is cutting edge and his vision is iconic… […]

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2019 Science Fiction Worst of

Captive State

               This movie didn’t hold my attention in a captive state. Yeah, that’s the best that I’ve got.                I watched several people walk out on this movie, making this already the second time this year that I’ve seen that happen (the other being Greta). A friend of mine came with me to see it […]

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2019 Action Worst of

Charlie’s Angels (2019)

               Considering that I hate the Charlie’s Angels movies from the early 2000s, I had a pretty low bar for this new version. The makers of the latest Charlie’s Angels not only lowered that bar, they then took the bar, wrapped it in the most trite of feminist clichés and beat me over the fucking […]

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2019 Best of Comedy Crime Drama

The Gentlemen

               Crime movies in the late 90s-early 2000s were weird. Every young director wanted to be the next Tarantino, characters almost exclusively communicated through obscure pop culture references and a movie wasn’t really cool unless its scenes were out of order. The Gentlemen is a throwback to that time. For director Guy Richie, this is […]

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2019 Horror

Child’s Play (2019)

               This movie shouldn’t be called Child’s Play. Call it anything else. Hell, call it Blood Buddy, which was the original title of Child’s Play. This isn’t a bad movie. It’s a decent horror flick that I would likely give a moderately positive review if it was called something else. However, they decided to call […]

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2019 Horror Supernatural Worst of

The Curse of La Llorona

               I heard that some sort of comic book movie came out this weekend, but first I’m here to tell you about this flaming bag of dogshit. Quick update, I saw Hellboy last week but I’ve had a very busy couple of weeks and didn’t have a chance to review it. Normally when that happens, […]

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2019 Action Science Fiction

Terminator: Dark Fate

               The good news is that Dark Fate is the best Terminator movie since Terminator 2. The bad news is that that’s like saying your sixth root canal went better than the previous three. The Terminator story logically concluded with T2 and the series has been lumbering along in a death march ever since, trying […]

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2019 Superhero

Spider-Man: Far from Home

               After seven movies, the Spiderman franchise has divided itself into three neat categories: the really good (Spiderman and Spiderman 2), the okay (Amazing Spiderman and Spiderman: Homecoming) and the godawful (Spiderman 3 and Amazing Spiderman 2). I’m moderately happy to say that this latest entry is firmly in the “okay” pile. Essentially just like […]