Posts Tagged ‘The Empire Strikes Back’
Film Review – The Old Guard 2
***Warning: This Review Contains Mild Spoilers*** Charlize Theron once again brings her unique set of action skills to The Old Guard 2 (2025). This is a sequel to the Covid-era hit The Old Guard (2020), which I wasn’t the biggest fan of. It had some decent set pieces and Theron…
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Film Review – A Family Affair
A Family Affair (2024) is the kind of rom-com that could’ve done gangbusters about twenty to thirty years ago. All the ingredients are there: big name stars dressed in fancy outfits, a plot that is way more convoluted and messier than it needs to be, and…
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Film Review – Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) is such an explosion of kinetic energy – both in its visual design and in its storytelling – that the result borders on creative overload. Where Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) feels like a living, breathing comic book, Across the Spider-Verse acts like an amalgamation…
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Film Review – Machete Kills
The Robert Rodriguez/Quentin Tarantino pet project Grindhouse went mostly unsung, but even its detractors seemed to share a fondness for the faux trailers that hinged the two films. Fan outcry soon led to a full-fledged Machete feature, an over-the-top “Mexplotation” flick starring the always stoic…
READ MOREAn Introduction
Hi, my name is Benjamin Nason. I am a new writer here on The MacGuffin website as well as a new writer over at The Backroom Comics website. I also am the writer of an independently published comic book mini-series entitled, The Serpent Whispered. I…
READ MOREEpisode 18 – The MacGuffin’s Top 25 Sequels
Spencer and John Portanova, of Adler and Zenith, share the MacGuffin Podcast’s Top 25 Sequels. The list was inspired when Spencer and John discussed Empire magazine’s list of the top 50 sequels in Episode 13. Here is the final List: 25. Gremlins 2, Kill Bill…
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