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Could have bought a house by now but instead I went to the movies. Thoughts are unfortunately my own.

Color Out Of Space Review – Yet Another Begrudging Ride on the Nicolas Cage-Express to Camp-city

Hagan Osborne
May 11, 2020
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Taking the supernatural sensibilities of H.P. Lovecraft’s beloved 1927 sci-fi tale and transporting into contemporary America, writer-director Richard Stanley overloads Color Out of Space with enough B-Film de...

Queen & Slim Review – Love Takes the Wheel in Lena Waithe’s Powerfully Political Outlaw Love Story

Hagan Osborne
March 12, 2020
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For Black Americans, being pulled over by police risks more than just an expensive fine. It becomes a matter of life and death. The manner whereby police interaction can escalate into gunfire has been a ...

Downhill Review – An Occasionally Raw, Occasionally Bumpy Relationship-Comedy

Hagan Osborne
March 6, 2020
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How would you react in a deadly emergency? Would you risk life and limb to assist others in the face of oncoming calamity? Or perhaps you pray to a higher being while seizing the opportunity to hold on to y...

Honey Boy Review – Shia LaBeouf Stuns with This Confronting Look at Familial Neglect

Hagan Osborne
March 5, 2020
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This time last year, the mention of Shia LaBeouf’s name would have induced jeers, scoffs, and meat-headed impressions of the controversial former child-star. Once the driving force behind the billion-dolla...

The Invisible Man Review – An Important Look at Moving Forward After Trauma

Hagan Osborne
February 25, 2020
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The overwhelming sound of angry waves crashing against a rocky shoreline opens Australian director Leigh Whannell’s adaptation of H. G. Wells beloved sci-fi novel The Invisible Man. The sheer thud, bringing...

The Call of the Wild Review – True Grit with Digital Dogs

Hagan Osborne
February 24, 2020
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Every year or so, we get a family film like The Call of the Wild; the family-friendly dog movie following an adorable pooch on a spirited journey into self-fulfilment. While recent years have seen the dog-a...

A Hidden Life Review – Terrence Malick Captures the Spectrum of Human Emotion in Slow-burning War-drama

Hagan Osborne
January 30, 2020
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The lengths taken by Nazi forces during World War II to forcibly enlist Austrian townspeople is depicted with heart-rending intensity in Terrence Malick’s latest historical drama, A Hidden Life. Based on r...

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood Review – Nice Guys Finish First in this Sorta-Biopic of Mister Rogers

Hagan Osborne
January 24, 2020
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Growing up in Australia in the mid-'90s, you were hard-pressed to find children's entertainment that didn't focus on brawling anime monsters or anthropomorphic bananas. That is where a beloved figure like ...

Underwater Review – K-Stew’s Heavy Breathing Cannot Salvage this Empty Vessel

Hagan Osborne
January 22, 2020
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The bottom of the ocean contains more than just a sparkling blue diamond belonging to Kate Winslet. Released under the studio formerly known as 20th Century Fox, Underwater is a sci-fi horror where monolith...

1917 Review – A Long Shot in Stakes and Filmmaking

Hagan Osborne
January 6, 2020
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It is the First World War.  The unnerving silence of a quaint French town - now occupied by German military forces - is interrupted by the sound of invading soldiers making howling commands. The fall o...
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