Posts Tagged ‘Transformers’
Episode 142 – Flamin’ Hot & Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
For this episode of the podcast, we review the Hulu original biopic, Flamin Hot, and Keith gives us a solo review of Transformers: Rise of the Beasts. We also celebrate Pride month with a review of the 1994 Aussie drag comedy, The Adventures of Priscilla,…
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Film Review – Honey Boy
The perils of child stardom is the subject of any number of tabloid magazines and clickbait listicles. Morbid curiosity seekers can’t help but be fascinated when they learn their former favorite Disney icon gets a DUI or has to take a job at The Gap…
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Film Review – Hobbs & Shaw
Of all the things the Fast and Furious franchise is concerned with, continuity falls way down at the bottom of the list. This series started out with a simple cops and robbers premise. It’s now changed to over the top action with spy agencies, counterespionage,…
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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 – Dunkirk
Where do I even begin? Christopher Nolan is a rare breed. He is one of the few filmmakers that has successfully crossed the line between independent art and mainstream appeal. His films are uniquely his own, and yet he has the ability to invite audiences…
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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 – Power Rangers
As a kid, the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers television show existed as a means to distract myself during its thirty-minute timeslot. I didn’t commit to watching it whenever it came on. Sometimes I would stop to catch it while flipping channels. I didn’t have a…
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Film Review – Fantastic Four
Ugh. Especially in a world where even the most diehard fan feels superhero movie fatigue we don’t have time to waste on a lackluster project that plays loose with the source material and doesn’t even have the passion to limp across it’s own finish line.…
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