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‘Primetime’ Is What Happens When Real Crime Becomes Entertainment
Robert Pattinson plays up To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen’s moral ambiguity in Lance Oppenheim’s Primetime.
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Zach Cregger Breaks the Video Game Curse with ‘Resident Evil’
Austin Abrams is a medical delivery driver having a terrible, no-good, very bad day in Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil adaptation.
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Buddy is a Delightfully Deranged Horror Comedy
A lovable children’s TV show character becomes increasingly unhinged in the new horror comedy Buddy from Too Many Cooks director Casper Kelly.
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‘The Paradise’ Falls Victim to the Pan-India Curse
Nani and Srikanth Odela give pan-India spectacle, but The Paradise lacks in emotional substance.
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South Korean Creature Feature ‘Hope’ Is Truly Wild
With breathtaking landscapes and a breakneck pace, Na Hong-jin’s Hope might be one of the craziest films you see this year.
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Big Screen ‘Backrooms’ An Unsettling But Uneven Debut for Kane Parsons
Kane Parsons becomes the latest (and youngest) in the YouTuber-to-horror-filmmaker pipeline with the A24 adaptation of his Backrooms liminal space series.
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‘AIR’ Gives Loving Legacy to Jordan’s Mother
AIR is a very satisfying watch for fans of Jordan-era basketball, or anyone curious about how a kid from North Carolina became the icon of such an enormous brand.
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‘The Super Mario Bros. Movie’ A Nostalgia Feast
Kids are likely to love The Super Mario Bros. Movie but adults craving cleverness over nostalgia might be a bit let down.
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‘Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves’ Brings Fantasy Fun
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is a fantasy story more in line with Guardians of the Galaxy than Lord of the Rings. Frankly, that type of lighthearted movie is a welcome one in a landscape where every PG-13 adventure feels weighed down with franchise expectations.
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‘Tetris’ Blends Nostalgia and Political Intrigue
Tetris is not a video game movie, though it is a movie about a video game. It turns out, the international intrigue surrounding how this addictive game came into all of our lives is much more fascinating than some manufactured video game movie plot.
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Whatcha Watchin: No Oscars For You, Steven Spielberg!
Alexis and Kim talk about the Oscars, Shazam: Fury of the Gods, 65, John Wick Chapter 4, and the new Netflix series Rana Naidu on the latest episode of the Whatcha Watchin podcast.
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Whatcha Watchin: A Coked-up Bear Made Movies Fun Again
In the latest episode of our Whatcha Watchin podcast, Kim talks Cocaine Bear and Creed III. Meanwhile, Alexis was sick at home and rewatched the YRF Spy Universe movies.
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Whatcha Watchin: The Most Mediocre Marvel Movie Ever?
In the premiere episode of the new Whatcha Watchin podcast, Trashwire editor Alexis Gentry and Geek Girl Authority critic Kim Pierce discuss Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantimania and why it’s starting to feel like Marvel is losing its magic.
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‘Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania’ More Mediocre Marvel
Maybe it’s superhero fatigue or the recent string of disappointing movies, but ‘Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania’ feels like another day, another mediocre Marvel movie.
