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Tron: Ares (2025)

Tron: Ares (2025)

Tron: Ares starts with an evil tech CEO named Dillinger (Evan Peters) waving his arms and making big sweeping pronouncements about the latest advances in AI. Why immerse yourself...

Linda
Anemone (2025)

Anemone (2025)

Daniel Day-Lewis is such a master of his craft that he could read the ingredients off a can of cat food and make it sound sinister, spiritual, or heartbreakingly...

Linda
The Smashing Machine (2025)

The Smashing Machine (2025)

If you have no background on ultimate fighting (aka mixed martial arts) The Smashing Machine gives you only a few teases to understand what’s going on. The fighters are...

Linda
Spenser for Hire: The Complete Series (1985-1987)

Spenser for Hire: The Complete Series (1985-1987)

Spenser for Hire is an ’80s TV staple that I remember fondly, if not well. It seems like it was always on, but can I recall a single plot...

Linda
One Battle After Another (2025)

One Battle After Another (2025)

Expecting a wacky comedy from the trailers, I was genuinely shocked by the chilling opening scene of One Battle After Another: a visceral sequence of revolutionaries violently breaking into...

Linda
Eleanor the Great (2025)

Eleanor the Great (2025)

It only took Hollywood decades to figure out that 90-something June Squibb could easily hold her own as a lead. After landing a Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for Nebraska...

Linda
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025)

A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025)

In A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, there’s an underlying assumption that everyone—certainly everyone who shows up at a wedding—should be coupled up. David (Colin Farrell) and Sarah (Margot Robbie)...

Linda
Freakier Friday (2025)

Freakier Friday (2025)

Set 22 years after the 2003 hit comedy Freaky Friday, Freakier Friday plops us back into the lives of mom-and-daughter duo Tess (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Anna (Lindsay Lohan)....

Linda
The Fantastic Four: First Steps

The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025)

Welp, here we go again. For the past couple decades, Marvel has painstakingly attempted to reboot and relaunch the Fantastic Four on the big screen, with new casts and...

Linda
Superman (2025)

Superman (2025)

The character of Superman has always been an earnest do-gooder. The guy is not just pretty (eyeball-meltingly pretty), but he’s relatable, growing up as an outsider (he is, after...

Linda
40 Acres (2025)

40 Acres (2025)

As much as I love me some good post-apocalyptic storytelling, whether it be zombies or spores or meteors causing the end of society as we know it, the dystopian...

Linda
Jurassic World: Rebirth (2025)

Jurassic World: Rebirth (2025)

Early on in Jurassic World: Rebirth (aka Jurassic Park VII), we meet perhaps the most boring family ever—a dad, his two daughters, and the older girl’s pothead boyfriend—sailing across...

Linda