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Concrete Cowboy – Film Review
Sent to live with his estranged father Harp (Idris Elba) for the summer, a rebellious teenager named Cole (Caleb McLaughlin) finds kinship in a tight-knit Philadelphia community of Black cowboys. Ricky Staub’s Concrete Cowboy is a movie that started off a bit rocky. For a long while, it genuinely felt like it had no sense of direction…
- 2026
The Empty Man – Film Review
Retired cop James Lasombra (James Badge Dale) is asked by his friend Nora Quail (Marin Ireland) to investigate the disappearance of her daughter Amanda (Sasha Frolova), who seemingly packed in the night and left an ominous message on the bathroom mirror – “The Empty Man Made Me Do It.” As he investigates this mysterious figure…
- 2026
Thunder Force – Film Review
Two childhood best friends named Lydia Berman (Melissa McCarthy) and Emily Stanton (Octavia Spencer) reunite as an unlikely crime-fighting superhero duo when one invents a formula that gives ordinary people superpowers. As soon as I saw that Thunder Force was written and directed by Ben Falcone, the same filmmaker behind huge duds such as Tammy and The Boss, I should’ve…
- 2026
Space Jam – Film Review
Swackhammer (Danny DeVito), an evil alien theme park owner, needs a new attraction at Moron Mountain. When his gang, the Nerdlucks, heads to Earth to kidnap Bugs Bunny (Billy West) and the Looney Tunes, Bugs challenges them to a basketball game to determine their fate. The aliens agree, but they steal the powers of NBA…
- 2026
Doll Face – Film Review
When the beautiful yet timid Marmalade inherits her grandmother’s palatial condo, there is an odd string attached: she must care for each and every doll in her grandmother’s extensive collection, or lose her inheritance. You know there’s a problem with your movie when the final cut doesn’t even have a director credited or attached to…
- 2026
Chaos Walking – Film Review
In Prentisstown, Todd Hewitt (Tom Holland) has been brought up to believe that the Spackle released a germ that killed all the women and unleashed Noise on the remaining men. After discovering a patch of silence out in the swamp, his surrogate parents immediately tell him that he has to run, leaving him with only…
- 2026