In a post-apocalyptic thriller, the same tropes and story beats can make a movie feel wrote. It generally takes something out of the box for it to stand out. Netflix’s latest offering, Bird Box, starring Sandra Bullock and an ensemble…

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Ocean’s Eight makes you feel cooler for having seen it. Of course, it’s a heist film; and in a heist film, you first have to have a devious mastermind who came up with the whole thing. In the case of…

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We’ve finally reached the end of a thrilling and pretty great October movie month. We’ve had major successes, some disappointing flops, and some childhood nostalgia brought to the silver screen. As we close out and move into November, we still…

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The latest movie from Illumination Entertainment takes the delightfully zany and crass yellow henchmen from Despicable Me & Despicable Me 2 and gives them their own spin-off movie. Minions opening minutes survey the primordial and pre-Gru existence of these dwarven,…

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“Everybody needs somebody. Everybody needs somebody to love.” The Blues Brothers, Jake (John Belushi) and Elwood (Dan Aykroyd), sum up buddy movies perfectly in their final number from 1980’s The Blues Brothers (one of my favorite buddy comedies of all-time). We…

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Some movies you enjoy for the incredible actors. Some for the amazing story and slice of life you get to see as you take in the hours of entertainment. These days, almost all have a visual element that would’ve been…

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