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June 4, 2018

UPGRADE [Film Review]: Automated Vengeance.

Upgrade has been a must-see ever since it debuted at the 2018 South by Southwest (SXSW) festival and won the Midnighters Audience Award earlier this year. Written and directed by Leigh Whannell (Saw, Insidious: The Last Key), Upgrade takes place in a near future where society has become high-tech and completely dependable on artificial intelligence; …

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May 29, 2018May 29, 2018

THEY REMAIN [Film Review]: The Music of Erich Yawn…

Disclaimer first and foremost, fellow readers: this was the second straight screener I'd received where the screener link continuously froze and buffered for 5-10 minute intervals every 2 or so minutes. I'd received an advanced copy of an anime I'll soon be reviewing, and am wildly grateful I'd received an actual physical blu-ray, as streaming …

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May 23, 2018

SOLO – A STAR WARS STORY [Review]: Nods & Winks.

The Disney train rolls on with this month’s big tentpole, this time from Lucasfilm with the second of the ‘anthology’ Star Wars movies with SOLO. The prequel aims to flesh out our favorite charming space pirate, by finally fully realizing all the stories we’ve heard over and over again in the original trilogy -- and …

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May 22, 2018May 22, 2018

CARGO [Movie Review]: Zombies Are the Windows to the Soul.

It’s a shame that Netflix spoiled a key moment for Cargo in the trailer. All you need to know about the film is Martin Freeman is trying to protect his infant daughter from zombies in the Australian wilderness. The film is based on a 2013 short also by Australian filmmakers Ben Howling and Yolanda Ramke …

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May 21, 2018May 21, 2018

DEADPOOL 2 [4DX Impressions]: 4DeadpoolsXforce.

Ryan Reynolds delivers again as Wade Wilson--the red and black-suited badass of cliches and retro fanfare, from Fortress, Encino Man, Robocop, Blade Runner, and the very similar looking set recyclability of Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger's Escape. You cannot knuckle down the range the writers went to in succeeding with another Deadpool installment, this time …

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May 17, 2018May 17, 2018

DEADPOOL 2 [Film Review]: Three’s Hump-on-me.

Well, I’m just sitting here…wearing my Jergens Hermetically-Sealed-Self-Lubricating-Hazmat-Grade Bodysuit (complete w/ a sphincter-diameter-engorging, triple-ripple-unicorn-plug-attachment), hunkered down cheeks-deep in Wade Wilson’s lime-stained peanut-log basin; all the while lung-sucking a two-part mixture of M-Pro 7 gun oil and Liberal Penetrator firearm solvent, wondering how I’m going to up the bullet chamber count from our GHG Deadpool Movie …

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