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Life Itself – Film Review

From writer/director Dan Fogelman (This Is Us), his newest film Life Itself is an excruciatingly painful film that tries so desperately to be heartbreaking and emotional, that if often comes off as cheesy and laughable. Official Synopsis: “As a young New York couple goes from college romance to marriage and the birth of their first child, the unexpected…

  • 2025

The Predator – Film Review

From Shane Black, the director of the seventh installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe Iron Man 3, brings us the newest Predator film that is unfortunately bloated with cheesy dialogue, distracting visual effects, and a boring story. A young boy accidentally causes the Predator to come down to the planet Earth, whose goal is to wipe out…

  • 2025

The Nun – Film Review

All the promotional material that has been released regarding Corin Hardy’s The Nun has called this entry in the now long-running Conjuring film series the “darkest chapter yet”. After seeing the film, I am genuinely baffled as to how The Nun – the film with the most cheap and boring scares and most humor involved is the darkest chapter. In Romania…

  • 2025

Kin – Film Review

Kin desperately makes an attempt to balance science fiction action with a dramatic family story at its core, but ultimately comes off as nothing more than an under two hour bloated mess that is never fully able to balance its sci-fi and family themes. After an ex-convict gets released, him and his brother go hide out…

  • 2025

Slender Man – Film Review

The film adaptation of the Internet urban legend Slender Man is here on the big screen about five years late, and proves to be an absolute mess filled with poorly written characters, cheap and lazy scares, and bad dialogue. A group of teenage girls living in Massachusetts grow a large interest with the Internet urban…

  • 2025

Searching – Film Review

Up and coming filmmaker Aneesh Chaganty’s first feature film Searching is filled with brilliantly executed suspense. A man named David Kim (John Cho) lives peacefully at home with his teenage daughter Margot (Michelle La). One day, however, Margot no longer texts her father and has not returned home in a long while, and eventually is considered to…

  • 2025