Posts Tagged ‘Zendaya’
Film Review – Spider-Man: Brand New Day
***Minor Spoiler Warning: This review assumes you have seen Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)*** There are multiple story threads happening throughout Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026). The most compelling one involves Peter Parker, aka our Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man (Tom Holland) reeling from the events of No Way Home (2021).…
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Film Review – The Odyssey
How does Christopher Nolan follow up his Oscar-winning work in Oppenheimer (2023)? By tackling one of the great foundational works of Western literature, that’s how! In a strange way, Homer’s ancient Greek poem The Odyssey is tailor made for Nolan’s sensibilities. He has always been a filmmaker whose ambition knows no bounds.…
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Film Review – Challengers
Director Luca Guadagnino (Call Me by Your Name, Suspiria) tackles the world of competitive tennis and complicated relationships in Challengers (2024), with a script by Justin Kuritzkes. Somehow, a trio of actors that most of us would not think to put together into this kind of film works (and it really works), but…
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Episode 93 – Spider-Man: No Way Home & The Matrix Resurrections
The first episode of 2022 features reviews for Spider-Man: No Way Home and The Matrix Resurrections. We also think of a couple of pitches for buddies movies starring actors of our choice. For our streaming homework, we review the 1995 cyber-punk action movie, Johnny Mnemonic, which also stars Keanu…
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Episode 87 – Dune
For this episode of the podcast, we review Denis Villeneuve‘s adaptation of the epic science fiction novel, Dune. We also list our all-time favorite title sequences and movie openings. For this week’s streaming homework, we review the 2020 Danish drama, Another Round, starring Mads Mikkelsen. …
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Film Review – Dune
The history of Frank Herbert’s novel Dune being adapted to the big screen has had its fair share of ups and downs. Alejandro Jodorowsky made an attempt only for the project to fall apart. David Lynch released his version in 1984 to critical and financial…
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Film Review – Space Jam: A New Legacy
The cringe runs deep throughout Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021). Not only for the non-stop nostalgia factor, but for how Warner Brothers shamelessly pats itself on the back. The film constantly references its parent studio, inserting characters and scenes from a vast array of titles. We…
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Film Review – Spider-Man: Far From Home
Just a couple of months separated from the release of Avengers: Endgame, we’re back to pick up the pieces in a Starkless world through the prism of our friendly neighborhood Spider-Man in Spider-Man: Far from Home. Not that he’s particularly interested in being our tour…
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