Posts Tagged ‘John Boyega’
Episode 147 – Oppenheimer & They Cloned Tyrone
In this week’s podcast, we review Christopher Nolan‘s Oppenheimer and the Netflix original sci-fi comedy, They Cloned Tyrone. For our streaming homework, we review the 1977 hockey film, Slap Shot, starring Paul Newman. Watch the video episode on youtube. Download the episode here.
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Film Review – They Cloned Tyrone
They Cloned Tyrone (2023) is a clever, entertaining, and imaginative movie. In his feature length debut, director Juel Taylor (who also cowrites with Tony Rettenmaier) gives respect to a whole plethora of genres. There are references to everything from blaxploitation, sci-fi, and horror films. While watching it, I was…
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Film Review – Breaking
Bank heists have long been a familiar premise in movies. However, in Breaking (2022) this set up takes a secondary role to more pressing matters. Directed by Abi Damaris Corbin (who also cowrites with Kwame Kwei-Armah), this examines the true-life tale of Brian Brown-Easley, a Marine war veteran who attempted to…
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Episode 30 – Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker and Uncut Gems
Welcome to the new decade! In this episode of the podcast, we talk at length about the final film in Disney‘s new Star Wars trilogy, The Rise of Skywalker. We also review the Adam Sandler crime drama Uncut Gems and we discuss the upcoming films…
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Film Review – Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker
I resisted watching the new Star Wars movies for a long time because I am a grumpy middle-aged lady who really doesn’t care about this particular intellectual property. I don’t hate the original trilogy, but the prequels kind of sucked. Not because of their dumbass…
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Film Review – Pacific Rim: Uprising
What to say of Pacific Rim: Uprising, the big, dumb sequel to Guillermo del Toro‘s big, dumb robots vs. monsters spectacle of 2013? (I know the original has its defenders and I find his output, in general, worth a watch but ultimately discarded Rim as a feast…
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Film Review – Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Ever since A New Hope was released in 1977, every Star Wars film followed the same basic formula: operatic space battles between good and evil, with a central character being pulled in both directions, whose final choice could decide the fate of all. From the…
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Film Review – Detroit
The tragedy of Kathryn Bigelow’s Detroit (2017) is that – despite the fact that the events it depicts took place fifty years ago – the country still sees similar occurrences happen this very day. Racism is an ugly stain on the legacy of America, a…
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