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Review: Cocaine Bear
By Christian DiMartino Elizabeth Banks’ Cocaine Bear is an okay version of what you expect from it. That is, a one-joke, one-idea horror comedy premise (a la Snakes on a Plane). Chances are, if you’ve heard the title and your interest has been piqued, then you know what you want out of it and what…
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Feelin’ Spooky: Hubie Halloween (2020)
I watched Hubie Halloween the day it premiered on Netflix in 2020, and for whatever reason I chose not to review it. I went into it expecting dread, and what I got certainly wasn’t great, but it wasn’t something that pained me. That about sums it up. Truth is, this is a nice, harmless movie…
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Review: The Many Saints of Newark
Alan Taylor’s The Many Saints of Newark is the entertaining but somewhat unconvincing prequel to The Sopranos. The film chronicles the early life of Tony Soprano, played in a legendary performance by the late James Gandolfini, yet by the end of it you don’t really feel as if it’s really a convincing origin story, because…
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Review: No Sudden Move
Remember when Steven Soderbergh announced he was retiring? Doesn’t that feel like eons ago? Back in 2013, he announced that Side Effects (which, don’t judge, is probably my favorite of his movies) was to be his last theatrical release because he was fed up with the business. Yet like Jack Twist once said to Ennis…
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