Posts Tagged ‘Glen Powell’
Film Review – Twisters
The latest trend of legacy sequels continues with Twisters (2024). This time, rather than bringing back familiar actors from the 1996 hit Twister, the production decided to create a standalone narrative with new characters. Of course, that doesn’t mean we don’t get our fair share of references to…
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Episode 127 – Avatar: The Way of Water & Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
For this week’s episode, we review the long-awaited blockbuster sequel, Avatar: The Way of Water by James Cameron and Rian Johnson‘s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. Also, for our streaming homework, we discuss Richard Linklater‘s animated love letter to 1960s suburban life, Apollo 10 1/2:…
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Episode 108 – Top Gun: Maverick
For this week’s podcast, we review the long-awaited action sequel Top Gun: Maverick, starring Tom Cruise and Miles Teller. We also cover the latest movie news, and for the streaming homework, we discuss James Mangold’s 1997 crime-thriller, Cop Land. Download the episode here.
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Film Review – Top Gun: Maverick
There has been a lot of talk lately describing Tom Cruise as “The Last Great Movie Star.” While that distinction can be debated, what’s hard to argue is that Cruise – who will be turning 60 this year – is the ultimate showman. Where other movies rely…
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Film Review – Hidden Figures
Hidden Figures tells the true story of three black women in the early days of NASA who rose through the glass ceiling of race and gender to become important people in the U.S. space race. In the politics of 2016, reminders of what it used…
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Film Review – Everybody Wants Some
If you read the movie trades like a respectable and not at all nerdy human being, you’ve probably heard director Richard Linklater describe his newest film, Everybody Wants Some, as a “spiritual sequel” to Dazed and Confused and rejoiced in your not at all dimly…
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