Posts Tagged ‘Stanley Tucci’
Film Review – The Electric State
Anthony and Joe Russo’s directorial output post Avengers: Endgame (2019) have been, well, uneven to say the least. Sadly, that trend continues with The Electric State (2025). This is a big sci-fi adventure loaded with special effects, well-known stars, and plenty of splashy set pieces. And yet, it lacks thrills, excitement,…
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Top 15 Films of 2024 – Allen’s Picks
Normally, when I sit down to write these end of year lists, I have a fairly good understanding of where certain films will land. The top five to seven entries are usually locked into place, and it’s just a matter of sorting out the remaining…
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Episode 122 – Weird: The Al Yankovic Story & Black Adam
In this week’s podcast, we list our favorite Weird Al parodies and review his new comedy biopic, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story. Keith also gives us his solo review of the new DC superhero movie Black Adam. For our streaming homework, we review the 1996…
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Film Review – Worth
Worth (2021) asks an impossible question: How much is a human life worth? This isn’t just a philosophical debate. Director Sara Colangelo examines the challenge of assigning a monetary value to a person. In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the government established the September…
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Film Review – A Private War
Look, protestations of “Fake News” being the “Enemy of the People” can take a flying leap. At its best, journalism can be a noble profession which seeks to both inform and enlighten its audience. One of the most important roles it can serve is to…
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Film Review – Transformers: The Last Knight
With fireballs hurling through the air and explosions sending knights in hoards sailing in opposing directions, Michael Bay marks the opening of his claimed to be last outing in the Transformers franchise with as signature a flair as Bay could probably muster. The time is…
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Film Review – Beauty and the Beast (2017)
Disney is on a live action(ish) remake kick of their classic animated films. Cinderella, The Jungle Book, and now Beauty and the Beast. The original is a Disney classic, which opened in theatres in 1991, and garnered two Academy Awards and was nominated for two…
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Film Review – Spotlight
Spotlight‘s greatest strength is showing that investigative journalism is a lot of work and that secrets have many layers where the answer can be right in front of you and sometimes it is merely a lack of action that can cause the truth to remain…
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