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Elio (2025)

Elio (2025)

Elio (Yonas Kibreab) can’t seem to fit in since his parents died. He butts heads with his Aunt Olga (Zoe Saldaña), a harried military officer who is doing the...

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The Life of Chuck (2025)

The Life of Chuck (2025)

Based on Stephen King’s novella and adapted by Mike Flanagan, The Life of Chuck starts with Act 3 of 3. It’s modern times, and a schoolteacher named Marty Anderson...

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Captain America: Brave New World (2025)

Captain America: Brave New World (2025)

There’s a new President of the United States and he wants to create a legacy for the ages… despite his sketchy past that makes even those in his orbit...

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A Quiet Place: Day One (2024)

A Quiet Place: Day One (2024)

If you were already dying like Lupita Nyong’o’s character Samira, is it strange than an alien invasion would make you feel alive again? A hospice patient, she barely makes...

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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)

I was not a fan of Mad Max: Fury Road. I remember leaving the screening with a bit of a 3D headache, partly due to the skip-a-frame herky-jerky cinematography,...

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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024)

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024)

I have to admit, this movie had to slowly win me over (and it had plenty of time to do that with its 2-1/2 hour runtime). In the three...

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Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024)

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024)

Part of the fun of the latest reboots of Godzilla and friends (starting with Gareth Edwards’ 2014 film) has been the surprising earnestness despite the outrageous premise: There have...

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Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (2023)

The beasts are back in thrilling new tease of Apple TV+ series Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

Oh, yessssss… The more recent Godzilla movies were something I never thought I needed after Roland Emmerich disastrously stupid 1998 movie of everyone’s favorite giant radioactive lizard. But starting...

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65 (2023)

65 (2023)

In space stories, 65 million years is a long, long time ago. But 65 million years ago, there was apparently another universe where civilized humans existed with poor health...

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Nope

Nope (2022)

There is a moment in Nope, Jorden Peele’s latest in his surprising and very welcome career as a filmmaker: OJ (Daniel Kaluuya), a very mild-mannered rancher races home to...

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Crimes of the Future (2022)

Crimes of the Future (2022)

When I heard the teaser that David Cronenberg was making a return to “body-horror” in his latest film, I, like many, knew exactly what that meant. From the hallucinogenic...

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Everything Everywhere All At Once

Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)

Evelyn (Michelle Yeoh) is just trying to do her taxes. Swamped in handwritten receipts for her small business–a struggling laundromat that she runs with her husband Waymond (Ke Huy...

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