Are you happy with your life? Do you like who you have become? If not, can you change, truly change your circumstances and who you are? These are two questions central to Richard Linklater’s Hit Man. The new Netflix film, co-written by Linklater and star Glen Powell, is loosely adapted from a Texas Monthly article […]
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LIFT Review
Heist movies are my jam. Ocean’s Eleven is my all-time favorite movie. I love The Italian Job, Inside Man, The Town, Ambulance, the list goes on. The genre allows for all sorts of fun. A heist movie can be a comedy, a gritty crime thriller, and everything in between. The one thing a (well made) […]
YOUR PLACE OR MINE Review
It’s a story we’ve seen a thousand times. Longtime friends who are seemingly perfect for each other can never make it work as more than friends. For one reason or another, they always just miss each other. It’s the basis for countless romantic comedies. And like the rom-com genre in general, it’s a tried and […]
GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY Review: Another Endlessly Entertaining Whodunit From Rian Johnson
Knives Out was one of 2019’s biggest hits. It had a stellar showing at the box office, and proved massively popular with both fans and critics. So when you get tasked with making the first of two (planned, fingers crossed for more) sequels, what do you do? Apparently, if you’re Rian Johnson, you put together […]
FALLING FOR CHRISTMAS Review
I love Christmas. It’s my favorite time of the year, even with the sometimes-but-not-always awful Minnesota weather. The music, the food, the atmosphere, I love it. And I especially love the movies. And something I’ve come to especially look forward to each Christmas season is the Netflix slate of original Christmas movies. Now it must […]
THE SEA BEAST Review: Thrilling Ocean Adventure With Stunning Animation
Netflix has steadily been making a name for itself in the animated movie arena. The streaming giant produced Klaus and acquired I Lost My Body, both of which received nominations for Best Animated Feature at the 2020 Academy Awards. Over the Moon (2020) and The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021) followed next, both of which […]
SPIDERHEAD Review: Netflix Sci-Fi Thriller Can’t Live Up To Promising Premise
Fresh off helming the biggest movie of the year (so far, at least) – Top Gun: Maverick – director Joseph Kosinski is back behind the camera for Netflix’s sci-fi thriller Spiderhead. He re-teams with Miles Teller (Rooster in Maverick) and rounds out an all-star cast with Chris Hemsworth and Jurnee Smollett. Unfortunately this one is […]
HUSTLE Review: The Underdog Sports Drama Is Once Again A Winning Formula
I’m honestly surprised it took Adam Sandler this long to make a basketball movie. Golf, football, football again. But never basketball. And the Sandman loves basketball. So it had to only be a matter of time. And whenever it was going to happen, you knew he was going to do it the right way. In […]
SENIOR YEAR: Netflix Original Fails Its Terrific Cast
By default, any movie starring Rebel Wilson, Sam Richardson, Zoë Chao, Chris Parnell, Mary Holland, Justin Hartley (and even Alicia Silverstone in a tiny cameo) should be good. Or at least decent. That’s a powerhouse lineup right there. Their talent and charisma alone should be able to carry any movie. So I guess that makes […]
HOME TEAM Review
Home Team tells the classic story you see all the time. Coach leads his team to a Super Bowl victory only to find himself suspended three years later for his role in the Bountygate Scandal, so the coach returns home to coach his son’s youth football team, earning redemption (kind of), and (re)learning that football […]
