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Category: Movie Reviews

Short Movie Review: Woman of the Hour (2023)

06/29/2025

Movie Reviews, Netflix Review

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This short movie review has a few minor spoilers! More Like Man of the Year Woman of the Hour is about the serial killer Rodney Alcala (played by Daniel Zovatto) in the late 1970s and how he managed to charm his way onto a TV show called “The Dating Game.” While much of the focus
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Short Movie Review: The Phoenician Scheme (2025)

06/22/2025

Movie Reviews

film, michael-cera, Movies, reviews, wes-anderson

This short movie review doesn’t have any major spoilers! I’m not sure if I should be even doing a review since I saw this movie two weeks ago already. Well, here goes nothing. The Phoenician Scheme is a dark comedy by Wes Anderson. You can spot a Wes Anderson movie from miles away due to the
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Short Movie Review: The Stranger (2022)

04/13/2025

Movie Reviews

This short movie review doesn’t have any major spoilers! Beware of the Stranger This movie was supposed to be a TV series on Quibi, but it was short lived. Even a platform created by Jeffrey Katzenberg can fail. I suppose this answers the question of why there seemed to be missing transition points throughout the
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Short Movie Review: Back to Black (2024)

03/28/2025

Amazon Recommendations, Movie Reviews

amy-winehouse, film, marisa-abela, Movies, Music

This short movie review has a few spoilers! Noooo, Nooooo, Noooooooo Most biopics about singers or bands tend to be linear in time and straightforward when it comes to the story because when you’re famous for whatever reason, it’s hard to include anything new or surprises for the audience. Back to Black is about Amy
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Movie Review: A Complete Unknown (2024)

01/21/2025

Movie Reviews, Movie Roles, Movie Thoughts

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There are not major spoilers in this review! The State of Bob Dylan If you know anything about Minnesota, it should include being the birthplace of Judy Garland (Frances Ethel Gumm), Prince (Robert Nelson), and Bob Dylan (Robert Allen Zimmerman). Thus begins the journey of Bob Zimmerman growing up in a small town called Hibbing
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Movie Review: Civil War (2024)

10/14/2024

Movie Reviews

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There are not major spoilers in this review! “You want to get sleep when you can. You never know what’s going to happen.” -Sammy- There’s a Civil War Happening Somewhere in the U.S. Civil War begins with a group of photo/war journalists discussing their careers thus far and how the current civil war in the
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Movie Review: The Union (2024)

08/31/2024

Movie Reviews, Netflix Recommendations, Netflix Review

There are not major spoilers in this review! The Pairing of Mark Wahlberg and Halle Berry Most everyone remembers the first crush in high school or the one that got away. For Mike McKenna (Mark Wahlberg) it was the one that got away in The Union. This comedy, action, and spy movie is about Roxanne
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Movie Review: Love Lies Bleeding (2024)

08/25/2024

HBO Recommendations, Movie Reviews

There are not major spoilers in this review! Love Lies Bleeding started out so well for a drama, action, crime with violent touches of a romance movie. Then, the ending completely dove into the deep end of the pool and sank to the bottom of it in less than a second. I’m not sure what
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Movie Review: Road House (1989) Vs. Road House (2024)

05/26/2024

Movie Reviews, Movie Roles

Before I begin comparing and contrasting these two movies, both of them are absolutely cheesy in their own right when it comes to some of the scenes. It’s a little funny how directors attempt a remake by spinning it a little differently from the original (the whole purpose of a remake, right?), but in the
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Movie Review: Mutt (2023)

01/22/2024

Movie Reviews, Trans People

We’ve come a long way since the 1990s regarding LGBTQ+ but we should remember there is much ebb and flow regarding any kind of progression. It speeds up and slows down. There have been good strides with equality for all, but within the last ten years, there’s been a chipping away at what should be
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(Short) Movie Review: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)

08/19/2023

Movie Recommendations, Movie Reviews

There are not major spoilers in this review! Movie Viewers Are Changing for the Better or Worse? Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is one of those movies Hollywood producers bank on to bring in the box office dollars. Between the last Indiana movie and this one, 2008 was years ago and audiences appear
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Movie Review: The Covenant (2023)

05/18/2023

Movie Recommendations, Movie Reviews

There are minor spoilers in this film. Most everything I mention is in the trailer. It’s been a few years since I’ve watched a Guy Ritchie movie. The second biggest draw was Jake Gyllenhaal. You can tell he fully commits to the character as he has done with most of his movies. The Covenant centers
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Netflix Movie Review: The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die (2023)

05/18/2023

Movie Reviews, Netflix Review

I really wanted to like this and give this movie a great review, but I can’t because it fell very far from the mark and not what I expected. This series could’ve gone out with a great bang, and a good ending to Uhtred, the son of Uhtred. Instead, I watched a movie with sloppy
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