Posts Tagged ‘Bill Skarsgård’
Film Review – Boy Kills World
There are a lot of ideas running all throughout Boy Kills World (2023). Maybe too many. This is a delirious, hyperactive, and blood splattered revenge tale. It takes several concepts and references and tosses them into a melting pot of violence and mayhem. You maybe thinking, “Well,…
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Film Review – John Wick: Chapter 4
The John Wick series started as a small revenge tale and has grown to become one of the definitive action franchises of the new century. Incorporating muscular hand to hand combat, gun choreography, and awe-inspiring stunts, each entry upped the ante in terms of death-defying acrobatics. Beyond…
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Episode 88 – Eternals and Titane
For this podcast episode, we review Marvel‘s new team-up adventure, Eternals. We also catch up with this year’s much-buzzed-about Palme d’Or winner, Titane. For our streaming homework, we review the 1955 Frank Sinatra drama, The Man with the Golden Arm. Download the episode here.
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Film Review – Nine Days (Second Take)
Think back to how many films depict the afterlife or pre-life. Every screenwriter or filmmaker has an idea of what it would be like, whether guided by religion or not. These films bubble over with creativity and some original ideas; some rely on special effects…
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Film Review – Nine Days
What does it mean to be alive? What does to mean to have a soul? Is there more beyond the time of being born and passing away? These are just a few of the questions that permeate writer/director Edson Oda’s impressive feature length debut, Nine Days (2021).…
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Film Review – The Devil All the Time
The title The Devil All the Time (2020) is an apt description for the story it tells. This is a brutal tale of despicable characters doing despicable acts to one another. Those that populate it are either the perpetrators of cruelty or the victims of…
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Episode 19 – It Chapter Two
On this episode of the podcast, we talk about the new installment of the Stephen King epic, It Chapter Two. We also discuss talks of a Tank Girl reboot, a possible Rod Serling biopic, and a Face/Off remake. As our Netflix homework, we review the…
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Film Review – It Chapter Two (Second Take)
The film adaptation of It by Stephen King began in 2017, and the first film broke records making it the highest-grossing R-rated horror film of all time. The collision of a terrifying clown, hysterical comedic elements, and excellent casting of young actors who gelled and acted…
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