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Spoiler-Free! Fresh off a record-breaking night at the Golden Globes, Damien Chazelle’s La La Land is shaping up to be an award season powerhouse. A successful musical is no easy feat. Were Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling able to sing and dance the
Spoiler-Free! It was a dark time for the rebellion. With the Empire’s forces massing and threatening to bring destruction on a scale never seen before….but enough about President-Elect Trump. Gareth Edwards’ Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, takes
SPOILER-FREE! In episode 85 we review a pair of films set during the Second World War. Allied certainly has the talent to be a great film. Helmed by Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future, Forest Gump), and starring a-listers Brad Pitt and Marion
Spoiler-free! In episode 84, we review two of the most hotly anticipated films of the year. Scott Derrickson’s Doctor Strange combines one of the most popular actors in the world (Benedict Cumberbatch), with an intriguing character, surrounded
Spoiler-free! In episode 83, we take a detour into the dark and disturbing underbelly of the America psyche with two powerful films. David Mackenzie’s Hell or High Water (Chris Pine, Jeff Bridges, Ben Foster, Gil Birmingham) takes us through th
Spoiler-free! We saw these two extremely fascinating films recently and decided to pull a double-feature this week. What goes better together than a South Korean zombie film and a stop-action animated “kids” feature? Does Train to Busan (or Zom
Spoiler-Free! We have been looking forward to this one for a while. The concept is utterly ridiculous. The sexual innuendo blatantly in your face. Crude and crass jokes abound. To top it off, its the brainchild of fellow stoner and friend of th
Spoiler-Free! And for our final trick we will make this joint…..disappear! After a successful first installment, Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Wood Harrelson, Lizzy Caplan, Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman, try to pull another cinematic rabbit
SPOILER-FREE! We hit up the drive-in for the most ill-suited double feature of the summer: The Secret Life of Pets and Jason Bourne. WTF! Pets has been a huge moneymaker for Universal, raking in over $500m worldwide. Is this gang of furry frien
Space. The final frontier. These are the rebooted voyages of the super sexy crew of the starship, Enterprise. With J.J. Abrams off busy playing with lightsabers, Justin Lin (of Fast and Furious fame) takes over the director’s chair for the thir
We strap on our proton packs and review one of the most controversial films of the summer: Paul Feig’s all-female reboot of Ghostbusters. Even with an all-star cast of Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Leslie Jones and Kate McKinnon, there were m
We could write up some fancy pants sentences, but this one really come down to one question. Do you want to see Daniel Radcliffe playing a corpse for 85 minutes? If you answered in the affirmative, journey with us into one of the more unique an
SPOILER-FREE! There are few franchises that get under our skin quite like James DeMonaco’s, The Purge. The combination of sadistic violence and mortal terror is once again on full display in the third installment, The Purge: Election Year. Well
We’re back…and so are those damned aliens! Twenty years after getting their asses kicked by a scrappy (and witty) group of human survivors, the aliens have returned with a really big and nasty ship. They ain’t looking for a cup of sugar. Can an
Another week, another super hero film. This time we journey once again into world of Charles Xavier (Professor X) and his school for the really, really, really gifted (X-Men). How does Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Apocalypse stack up against the other
Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe team up in Shane Black’s new 70s buddy comedy, The Nice Guys. Was this an inspired comedic pairing, like Clint Eastwood and the monkey in Any Which Way But Loose? Or, was it more like J-Lo and Batman in Gigli? (Cl
With our boycott of George Clooney’s Money Monster, we looked for something a little less anger inducing to review this week and settled upon Jeremy Saulnier’s Green Room. What’s so bad about being trapped in an isolated location while being hu
We are in the midst of an avalanche of cinematic comic book adaptations. Kicking off this summer blockbuster season and hot on the heels of the much maligned Batman v. Superman, is Captain America: Civil War. In such a crowded genre, were Robe
We love cats. (The Kracken sends his regards. May 5th is his 21st Birthday!!!) Combine a pretty kitty with two gifted sketch comedians and it sounds like pure movie gold. Did Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele deliver on their first foray into
SPOILER-FREE! Normally when a classic film is remade there is some concern. However, from the first trailer it seemed that Jon Favreau and Disney and had gotten The Jungle Book right. The real question here is, how good was it? Did the all-star
SPOILER-FREE! This is a tough one to describe. A somber meditation on the process of grieving? Not quite. A moody and atmospheric piece on the quest for self-identity? No. That’s not it either. A post-modern critique of the industrialization of
SPOILER-FREE! There is little doubt we have become a high surveillance society. Hi NSA! However, in this Orwellian-nightmare, what is often overlooked (pun intended) are the moral and ethical questions about how we should act upon the informati
SPOILER-FREE! They don’t get much bigger than this. The long-awaited and much discussed, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, exploded (rather loudly) onto screens this weekend. In the process it scored a huge box office windfall. Why did the ma
SPOILER-FREE! There are few things as relaxing as a cute animated film about a group animals that can talk, wear clothes and have zany adventures. Disney’s Zootopia is not that film. What is it then? Perhaps the first entry in the animated zomb
SPOILER-FREE! End of the world or not, can you ever really trust a guy who builds a bunker under his farmhouse? That is the question that 10 Cloverfield Lane poses as it draws us into its suffocatingly dramatic web. Why is John Goodman getting
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