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Ride Like a Girl – Film Review

As a little girl, Michelle Payne (Teresa Palmer) dreams of the impossible: winning the Melbourne Cup – horse-racing’s toughest two-mile race. The youngest of 10 children, Michelle is raised by single father Paddy (Sam Neill). She leaves school at 15 to become a jockey and after early failures she finds her feet, but a family…

  • 2026

Bloodshot – Film Review

After he and his wife are murdered, marine Ray Garrison (Vin Diesel) is resurrected by a team of scientists. Enhanced with nanotechnology, he becomes a superhuman, biotech killing machine – Bloodshot. As Ray first trains with fellow super-soldiers, he cannot recall anything from his former life. But when his memories flood back and he remembers…

  • 2026

The Mimic – Film Review

A comedy where our main character learns that imitation may not be the sincerest form of flattery when he is befriended by a younger neighbor on the town’s newspaper staff. The Kid, who is married but childless, knows no one in town, whereas The Narrator knows everyone in town. As times goes on, the Narrator…

  • 2026

Onward – Film Review

Two teenage elf brothers, Ian (voice of Tom Holland) and Barley Lightfoot (voice of Chris Pratt), go on a journey to discover if there is still a little magic left out there in order to spend one last day with their father, who died when they were too young to remember him. When a new…

  • 2026

Spenser Confidential – Film Review

When two Boston police officers are murdered, ex-cop Spenser (Mark Wahlberg) teams up with his no-nonsense roommate, Hawk (Winston Duke), to take down criminals. The biggest praise I can give Peter Berg’s latest feature, Spenser Confidential, is that it actually has a decently strong opening. We witness lead protagonist Spenser assaulting a fellow police officer while…

  • 2026

Big Time Adolescence – Film Review

A seemingly bright and mostly innocent 16-year-old named Monroe “Mo” Harris (Griffin Gluck) attempts to navigate high school under the guidance of his best friend Zeke (Pete Davidson), an unmotivated-yet-charismatic college dropout. Although Zeke genuinely cares about Mo, things start to go awry as he teaches nontraditional life lessons in drug dealing, partying, and dating,…

  • 2026