Growing up with superpowers isn’t easy, Dion (Ja’Siah Young) Netflix’s newest science fiction-series, comes from the producers behind Jericho and 24: Legacy. The show is based on the by Dennis Liu written comic book “Raising Dion”, which celebrates diversity, while tackling the challenges of raising a child with superpowers. Nicole (Alisha Wainwright), a recently widowed, …
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Review – Good Boys
“We’re in sixth grade now. We need to start doing sixth-grade things.” – Max Keith L. Williams, Jacob Tremblay and Brady Noon in ‘Good Boys’ Three 6th grade boys who ditch school, embark on an epic journey while carrying accidentally stolen drugs, and try to make their way home in time for a long-awaited party. …
Review – Downton Abbey
“It’s 1927, we’re modern folk.” – Bertie Pelham It’s been almost four years, since the final episode of Downton Abbey aired on television and we had to say goodbye to the Crawley family. Who would’ve thought, there was more to explore and another story to tell? As things usually turn out after a successful series, …
Review – The Farewell
Based on an Actual Lie Jian Yongbo, Kmamura Aio, Chen Han, Tzi Ma, Awkwafina, Li Ziang, Tzi Ma, Lu Hong and Zhao Shuzhen appear in a still from The Farewellby Lulu Wang, an official selection of the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. Courtsey of Sundance Institute | photo by Big Beach …
Review – The Angry Birds Movie 2
“We’re going to need a bigger slingshot.” – Leonard Silver (Rachel Bloom) working on one of her inventions. Worldwide mobile game phenomenon Angry Birds got turned into an animated film back in 2016, which grossed over 5x its budget. The 21st century is known for its need of franchises, so three years later we are …
Review – It Chapter Two
“This meeting of the Losers Club has officially begun.” – Richie Tozier Bill Hader and James McAvoy – sewer inspectors The sequel to the 2017 box office success ‘It’ starts exactly where it left off. Almost no explanatory flashbacks to the situations the Losers Club got themselves into, fighting the terrifying Pennywise. Only difference in …
Review – Dora and the Lost City of Gold
Can YOU say ‘extreme neurotoxicity’? – Dora Madeleine Madden, Isabela Moner, Jeff Wahlberg and Nicholas Coombe channeling The Goonies on their quest to Parapata. Everyone knows Dora The Explorer! Dora is a young Hispanic girl, exploring the wilderness and fantasy-like destinations with her monkey Boots, who wears… red boots. With her bottomless talking backpack and …
Theatrical releases – September 2019
“Beep beep, Richie!” – Pennywise The Loser’s Club is back in ‘It Chapter Two’ Every month we take a look at which films to check out. It’s September and we’re officially entering awards-season. This means – LOTS of great films with stellar performances. That doesn’t mean we won’t get anymore fun movies, because it seems …
Review – Booksmart
“Nobody knows we’re fun.” – Molly Beanie Feldstein, Kaitlyn Dever and Jessica Williams in Booksmart A coming of age comedy about girls/women, written by women, directed by a woman and starring two talented women. To the guys out there questioning if this is something they should check out, I shout: FUCK YEAH! I’ve seen some …
Review – Stuber
“It’s going down tonight.” – Leon Kumail Nanjiani and Dave Bautista Dolph Lundgren and Sarah Connor-jokes aside, Stuber is nothing more than a rehash of Schwarzenegger action comedies we’ve seen in the ’90s. Formula filmmaking you can predict before it even happens, with violence that tries to shock but mostly just interrupts whatever is really …
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