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Review: G20

April 14, 2025

Despite a typically great lead performance from Viola Davis, Prime Video’s G20 never escapes the shadow of the countless Die Hard knock-offs that came before it. Davis plays President Danielle Sutton, who is attending the G20 summit in South Africa with her family, including the First Gentleman Derek (Anthony Anderson), rebellious daughter Serena (Marsai Martin), […]

Review: Novocaine

March 18, 2025

The recently released Novocaine is anything but painful. It delivers tons of laughs along with over-the-top, creative violence led by a fantastic Jack Quaid. Quaid plays Nathan Caine, a mild-mannered assistant bank manager who was born with congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis or CIPA, which makes him unable to feel any physical pain. After finally […]

Review: Gladiator II

November 25, 2024

It’s been 24 years, but Ridley Scott finally took us back into the Colosseum for Gladiator II. While it lacks compared to its 2000 predecessor, it also shares many of its strengths. Paul Mescal plays the grown Lucius Verus Aurelius, who was forced to flee Rome after the events of Gladiator. Finding a new life […]

Review: Venom: The Last Dance

October 29, 2024

Sony’s Marvel Universe continues to flounder as the Venom trilogy comes to a messy and rushed ending in Venom: The Last Dance. Picking up from the end of Venom: Let There Be Carnage (and Eddie/Venom’s cameo in Spider-Man: No Way Home), Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) and Venom (also Hardy) are fugitives wanted for the murder […]

Review: Joker: Folie à Deux

October 8, 2024

2019’s Joker was an interesting spin on a classic comic character and a stylish throwback to 70s Scorsese griminess that found its way to an Oscar win for Joaquin Phoenix and over 1 billion dollars at the box office.  Joker: Folie à Deux is one of the most baffling sequels in recent memory. It feels […]

Review: Subservience

September 15, 2024

Taking a cue from recent movies like M3GAN and 90s domestic thrillers like The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Megan Fox is a robotic housekeeper who goes out of control in Subservience. Michele Morrone stars as Nick, whose wife Maggie (Madeline Zima) has been hospitalized waiting for a heart transplant. Overwhelmed with the stress of […]