Category: Adventure
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Why Wish and similar Disney films don’t work
Disney movies have taken a bit of a downward turn recently. How come?
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The precarious representations in One Battle After Another
A bumpy journey about revolution and family makes us feel fear, disgust, humor, and satisfaction.
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The Suicide Squad—An Overlooked and Underrated “Sequel”
Since Season 2 of Peacemaker is currently airing, let’s revisit the movie that started it all.
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Caught Stealing: New York, Crimes, Baseball, and Cat
The trainwreck is hot but tame.
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“The Long Walk” (2025) Film Review-Brutality, brokenness, and brotherhood in dystopian America
Those perfect Summer or Fall days. The sun is shining, the temperature is JUST right, and you’ve got nothing else to do. Therefore, isn’t it time to get outside and take a nice stroll through the park, or along the shoreline (should you be that fortunate), or even just around the neighborhood? Sure. BUT…..if one…
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“Together”: Love Hurts, Sticks, and Sometimes Chainsaws
Michael Shanks’ Together is a queasy, hilarious, and surprisingly heartfelt body-horror trip that fuses love and terror in the most literal sense. Starring real-life couple Dave Franco and Alison Brie, this midnight gem twists Plato’s soulmate myth into a gory, darkly funny tale of codependency, cults, and chainsaws — equal parts romance and nightmare.
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“She Rides Shotgun” — A Gritty, Heartbreaking Father-Daughter Thriller
Nick Rowland’s She Rides Shotgun is a blistering, blood-soaked road thriller that doubles as a bruised love story between a haunted ex-con (a career-best Taron Egerton) and the daughter he barely knows (astonishing newcomer Ana Sophia Heger). Fueled by white-knuckle chases, razor-tense shootouts, and quiet moments of aching tenderness, the film captures both the terror…
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“Nobody 2” (2025) Film Review-Forget serenity and relaxing when checking out THIS style of family vacation
Remember when there was this amazing comedy titled “National Lampoon’s Vacation”? To this day, it is a true classic of the genre and certainly put a new spin on precisely what KINDS of insanity could occur when taking the fam on the road. Then, like with so many successful films, there was the sequel (which…
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“Nobody 2 is Ridiculous in All the Right Ways”
“Nobody 2” is the kind of sequel you expect to roll your eyes at—and then end up grinning through the whole thing. Bob Odenkirk proves once again that an ordinary-looking guy can be the most entertaining action hero alive, battling cartels with harpoons, deep fryers, and pure chaos. Toss in Sharon Stone as a delightfully…
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“Jurassic World: Rebirth” (2025) Film Review-Stunning visuals deliver Summer spectacle, but…..
As this critic continues to look back at some of this Summer’s films I have taken in, I would be remiss if I didn’t mention one of the most overall unsettling trends in Hollywood over the last several years…..sequels, reboots, and remakes. Look, I am all for seeing more than one film for certain originals…