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Category Archives: Movie Reviews
Movie Review: Thor: Love and Thunder
Thor: Love and Thunder is Disney’s latest addition to the MCU and the fourth Thor movie. This is actually a pretty big deal. Thor is the first MCU hero to get a fourth movie outside of the ensemble Avengers films. … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Jurassic World: Dominion
The new Jurassic Park trilogy made big waves when it debuted in 2015. Now, that trilogy has concluded with Jurassic World: Dominion, and things are crazier than ever. This movie has not been loved by the critics, scoring the worst … Continue reading
Movie Review: Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
It’s been three and a half years since the last movie set in the Wizarding World, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. That movie…was kind of a mess. And the state of the fandom has, *ahem* changed significantly since then. … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Spider-Man: No Way Home
Well, it’s about time I got back to these. For those of you who started reading my blog after I started my podcast, I used to do movie reviews pretty often here. It’s just that I’ve hardly seen any new … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Well, here it is: the end* of the Star Wars saga. Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker is the completion of the nine-film series George Lucas originally promised us in 1978. It took 41 years, selling the series to Disney, … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Frozen II
Okay, I would have posted this review a week ago, but my computer actually died while I was at the movie, and I had to get a new one. But for those of you who haven’t gotten around to seeing … Continue reading
Movie Review: Spider-Man: Far From Home
Well, just a few months after Avengers: Endgame, your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is back for his European tour. When Marvel’s schedule of movies was revealed, Spider-Man: Far From Home felt like kind of an afterthought to Avengers: Endgame (not to … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Godzilla: King of the Monsters is this year’s big giant monster movie (obviously). A sequel to the 2014 reboot of Godzilla and Kong: Skull Island, this movie features bigger villains, bigger monsters, and a pretty epic giant monster fight. Honestly, … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Pokémon Detective Pikachu
So, what do you get if you mash together Pokémon, Dr. Dolittle, and a buddy cop film? You get what is probably one of the most ridiculous premises for a movie I’ve ever seen. (For a theatrical release, anyway; Syfy … Continue reading
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