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Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace – Film Review
Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) is a young apprentice Jedi knight under the tutelage of Qui-Gon Jinn (Liam Neeson); Anakin Skywalker (Jake Lloyd), who will later father Luke Skywalker and become known as Darth Vader, is just a nine-year-old boy. When the Trade Federation cuts off all routes to the planet Naboo, Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan are…
- 2026
Songbird – Film Review
Immune to the COVID-23 virus, a courier races against time to save the woman he loves from a quarantine camp. Songbird is a movie that has already caused a ton of controversy online. Can you guess why? It’s because it’s essentially about a mutated strand of the ongoing COVID-19 disease in real life. This film’s version…
- 2026
The Mandalorian: Chapter 15: The Believer – Review
The following article contains spoilers for Chapter 15: The Believer. I’m genuinely blown away by how good season two of Jon Favreau’s The Mandalorian turned out to be in the grand scheme of things. It all started off with an amazing bang with “Chapter 9: The Marshal” but after that, there were a large number of filler…
- 2026
The Social Network – Film Review
In 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer genius Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) begins work on a new concept that eventually turns into the global social network known as Facebook. Six years later, he is one of the youngest billionaires ever, but Zuckerberg finds that his unprecedented success leads to both personal and legal complications when he…
- 2026
Mank – Film Review
1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing wit and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz (Gary Oldman) as he races to finish the script for Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane. David Fincher’s Mank should by all accounts be one of the greatest movies of the entire year. Citizen Kane is one of the greatest movies of all-time and is…
- 2026
Citizen Kane – Film Review
When a reporter is assigned to decipher newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane’s (Orson Welles) dying words, his investigation gradually reveals the fascinating portrait of a complex man who rose from obscurity to staggering heights. Though Kane’s friend and colleague Jedediah Leland (Joseph Cotten), and his mistress, Susan Alexander (Dorothy Comingore), shed fragments of light on…
- 2026