Tag: movie-review
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THE ROSES (2025)
STORYLINE: Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy (Colman) and Theo (Cumberbatch): successful careers, great kids, an enviable sex life. But underneath the façade of the perfect family is a tinderbox of competition and resentments that’s ignited when Theo’s professional dreams come crashing down. (IMDb) I went to see 2018’s A Star is Born…
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TOGETHER (2025 – Horror)
STORYLINE: Years into their relationship, Tim and Millie find themselves at a crossroads as they move to the country. With tensions already flaring, an encounter with an unnatural force threatens to corrupt their lives, their love and their flesh. (IMDb) Over the past few years the horror genre has seen an incredible uptick,…
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THE BAD GUYS 2 (2025)
STORYLINE: The Bad Guys are struggling to find trust and acceptance in their newly minted lives as Good Guys, when they are pulled out of retirement and forced to do “one last job” by an all-female squad of criminals. (IMDb) Sequels seem like an inevitability when a film is a success, especially when…
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SHE RIDES SHOTGUN (2025)
STORYLINE: After years in prison, Nate (Taron Egerton) has made some dangerous enemies, including the powerful criminal gang he worked for on the inside. Desperate for a fresh start, Nate cuts ties with his old crew on his release from prison, but the gang retaliates by putting a hit on his family. Nate picks up…
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EDDINGTON (2025)
STORYLINE: In May of 2020, a standoff between a small-town sheriff and mayor sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor in Eddington, New Mexico. (IMDb) Five years after the Covid 19 pandemic we see its influence on popular culture. The pandemic is being being used a modern historical reference point,…
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I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER (2025)
STORYLINE: When five friends inadvertently cause a deadly car accident, they cover up their involvement and make a pact to keep it a secret rather than face the consequences. A year later, their past comes back to haunt them and they’re forced to confront a horrifying truth: someone knows what they did last summer…and is…
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PAVEMENTS (2025)
STORYLINE: A prismatic, narrative, scripted, documentary, musical, metatextual hybrid, is an examination of the iconic 90s indie band Pavement. The film intimately shows the band preparing for their sold-out 2022 reunion tour while simultaneously tracking the preparations for a musical based on their songs, a museum devoted to their history and a big-budget Hollywood biopic…
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MEFAN 2.0 (2025)
STORYLINE: Two years after M3GAN’s rampage, her creator, Gemma, resorts to resurrecting her infamous creation in order to take down Amelia, the military-grade weapon who was built by a defense contractor who stole M3GAN’s underlying tech. (IMDb) Its basic Hollywood mathematics, when a film is popular, it makes money, the idea of a…
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THE UNHOLY TRINITY (2025, western)
STORYLINE: Buried secrets of an 1870s Montana town spark violence when a young man returns to reclaim his legacy and is caught between a sheriff determined to maintain order and a mysterious stranger hell-bent on destroying it. (IMDb) Secret. Lies. Betrayal. No this is not a political debate. These three adjectives tend to be…
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THE LIFE OF CHUCK (2025)
STORYLINE: A life-affirming, genre-bending story based on Stephen King’s novella about three chapters in the life of an ordinary man named Charles Krantz. (IMDb) When watching movies based on the works of Stephen King I expect to be watching a horror movie. The 1980 adaption of The Shining remains my favorite adaptation from…
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