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New Release: The Bride! Review
The Bride! showed promise but had one too many fumbles. Wanted to love it but couldn’t. The Bride! (2026) The Bride! is a gothic horror-romance take on Bonnie & Clyde for us oldsters, or Wild at Heart/Thelma and Louis for those, well, I guess, still old. What works: It’s difficult to give Christian Bale and Jesse Buckley anything that they won’t shine in, but this movie does test the boundaries of that. You do have two of the best-skilled actors in this movie, along with so

Janelle
16 hours ago2 min read


How To Make A Killing Review
How To Make a Killing made the cardinal sin when it comes to A24 Studio Films...it forgot to be weird. Glen Powell in How To Make A Killing (2026) How To Make a Killing is an A24 dark comedy that broke the golden A24 rule…it forgot to get weird. I think if Glen Powell has a devoted audience, they’ll find a way to see this under-promoted movie. This movie didn’t work, and, unfortunately, after The Running Man, Glen Powell is 0-2 in his leading-man gig. He’s proven to work grea

Janelle
7 days ago2 min read


Movie Generator Pick: The Nightingale
Aisling Franciosi in The Nightingale (2018) The Nightingale is not for the faint of heart at all. Once again, this is a movie that the movie randomizer website suggested, & since I don’t click until I see something I want, this is the risk I run. The Nightingale is a brutal, honest look at English colonization of Tasmania and the Aboriginal people who lived there. The Nightingale is unrelenting in its necessary brutality Aisling Franciosi, Baykali Ganambarr, and Sam Claflin

Janelle
Feb 272 min read


Crime 101 Review
Le sigh... It's just that time of year. We have to slog through this part before the hits start rolling in. It's not that the movies are BAD, per se, but they do tend to be a bit underwhelming right now. Good actors, meh movie (Crime 101) Which leads us to Crime 101, starring Chris Hemsworth, Halle Berry, Mark Ruffalo, Barry Keoghan, Monica Barbaro, and Nick Nolte. Yes, that Nick Nolte. Crime 101 is your typical heist, cat-and-mouse movie, but unlike its muse, Heat, this ca

Janelle
Feb 172 min read


A Practice in Mindfulness: The Talented Mr. Ripley
Let me be upfront...I haven't actually seen THAT many movies. DON'T JUDGE ME Before I started this movie gig lol I will always, unapologetically, consider myself a reader before a watcher, but having enjoyed a lot of both in recent years, I realize I love art. No matter what form it takes. So I've been on a quest to see as many movies as I can, rewatching some I've seen, experiencing some for the first time... I fully believe we're becoming a consumption society. We're losin

Janelle
Feb 92 min read
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