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The Mandalorian and Grogu makes the biggest cardinal sin of all: scamming its viewership into believing they are making entertainment when these parts of Star Wars are nothing more than a piece of capital, packaged and designed to make more toys, plushies, and general merchandise.…
The moment Freaky Tales kicks off, you know you’re in for a ride. It’s 1987 in Oakland, where neon signs flicker, punk music thrashes, and danger lurks in every alleyway. But this isn’t just any ‘80s…
I’d wager that almost everyone remembers the first time they saw Nicolas Cage on screen for the first time. For me it was Martha Coolidge’s 1983 romantic comedy Valley Girl. I don’t remember the femal…
2020 was one of the most significant years in modern cinematic history. Not because of an overwhelming wealth of great films, but because of the insane upheaval of how films were marketed, released an…
Powered by JustWatch Wonder Woman 1984 (or, as is titled in the credits WW84) takes place in the height of eighties America. Greed, for lack of a better word, is good, and as a social currency,…
When you have the likes of Oscar Isaac, Ben Affleck, Garret Hedlund, Charlie Hunnam, and Pedro Pascal headlining a film you would expect nothing but the best but sadly, with Triple Frontier, you get n…
Director Antoine Fuqua, who blessed us with such actioners like The Replacement Killers, Bait, Shooter, Training Day (which helped secure Fuqua regular Denzel Washington a Best Actor Oscar), and The E…