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“Joker: Folie à Deux” Review

I didn’t enjoy first Joker movie because it was a meandering mess of ideas. The revisionist 1980s tale of the Batman villain was smeared with so much postmodern grime to cover up how empty its commentary was on mental health and the class divide. You could at least tilt your head and squint to see a more profound movie to appreciate performance. But I’d have to twist myself into a pretzel to find anything profound within the sequel, Folie à Deux. It’s just as u...

“Stopping The Steal” Review

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It’s a question that every Trump-loyalist Republican has avoided: Was the 2020 election accurate? The night before writing this review, I watched the Vice Presidential Debate where Tim Walz posed this question to JD Vance. Like clockwork, he avoided the question. It’s that continuous refusal what is what fueled the January 6th ...

“Mr. McMahon” Review

There was the old cry of declaring televised wrestling as fake. Was it scripted? Sure, but the fighting was real. It was so real that when Bill Maher tried to make a snide comment about how fake it was, Rowdy Roddy Piper lifted his shirt to show the wounds he got from matches and brought up how Owen Hart died during an accident preparing for a match. Wrestling is fake in the same sense that Jackie Chan’s movies were fake; reducing them as such removes the pain that was placed in the theatrics.

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“Uglies” Review

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Society places a weird value on beauty that deserves to be dissected and explored. Don’t expect any of that contemplation within Uglies, a young-adult dystopian story that plays like a stereotype of that genre. H...

“Will & Harper” Review

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Everybody knows , but few know Harper Steele. This is partly because she’s only been herself for a few years. For the past few decades, she was known as Andrew Steele, a Saturday Night Live writer fro...

“Lover of Men: The Untold History of Abraham Lincoln” Review

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Was Abraham Lincoln gay? There’s a lot of evidence in the documentary Lover of Men to suggest so, based on the discovered letters of the former president. To many Americans who have grown up with such an iconi...

“His Three Daughters” Review

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Nobody is ready for the death of a parent, even when you know it’s coming soon. His Three Daughters centers around three sisters preparing for the worst. They know their dad will be dying soon and try to make pre...

“The Wild Robot” Review

It’d be so easy to get lost within the woods of The Wild Robot for looking so damn good. The lush visual splendor is enough to make one crave a silent adventure ala Wall-E. Thankfully, this film never becomes that dirivitive, nor does its script aggravate with a simplistic assembly of busywork for the ensemble of robots and critters. There’s a rare charm for a film that looks this good and harbors many strong thematic elements.

Although dense in its philosophy, the story is simple enough to ...

“In A Violent Nature” Review

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“Boy Kills World” Review

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