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The Forever Purge - Movie Review Critics Score - 4 General Audience Score - 6 Since The Purge first hit theaters and brought financial success back in 2013, Universal Studios has cranked out a film for the franchise almost every other year since it’s inauguration. While the original film had an interesting enough premise of temporary legalized crime and Ethan Hawke to lead the charge, the rest of the series has floundered at attempts to recapture that creativity and put different spins on the “Purge World”. The new film in the series The Forever Purge, is more of the same, heavy on the action and ultraviolence, light on script, character development and plot holes all over the place. The movie plays fast and the hour and fifty minute run breezes by with action and firefights aplenty but anyone in search of commentary on anything deeper need look further. The film hints around at addressing topics of prejudice, inequality and racial violence but if you want to get anything more than a f...

Malignant - Movie Review Critics Score - 7 of 10 General Audience Score - 7 of 10 The Horror genre has been around for so long and provided us with scares aplenty, but original ideas are more difficult to find these days with sequels, prequels and reboots providing a decent portion of the market for thrills. Even if a film isn't able to bring something amazing, new, fresh and original to the table, there's still different ways to put spins on things to keep them interesting and engaging. That is exactly what the new horror film Malignant on HBO Max is able to do. While it does provide some interesting twists, turns and reveals as it goes, if you're a huge horror buff you'll probably see some of them coming. But where this film succeeds is trying new things, things I don't believe I've ever seen before in a horror film and while some of it is conventional, it's fun, paced well and offers a few jump scares and creeps that'll crawl under your skin like a Ma...

Cry Macho - Movie Review Critics Score - 3 General Audience Score - 3 Clint Eastwood has been a staple of the film industry longer than many reading this have been alive. From acting in to directing some truly fantastic films, including Best Picture winners and nominees, Clint has a legacy in film that is almost unsurpassed. But Cry Macho, the latest acting/directing effort by Mr. Eastwood that just dropped last weekend on HBO Max, rather than add to his legacy, it only serves to solidify the argument that his work took a sharp turn for the worse in his final years. With Million Dollar Baby, Changeling and American Sniper in the last couple decades, he’s proven he’s capable of producing cinema at a very high level, but Cry Macho is pedestrian storytelling at it’s finest. This film looks and feels like a product that a new director from the 80’s would bring to the table, and while Clint still has some of the Macho materials leftover from his younger years, the rest of this film mainly m...

The Colony - Movie Review Critics Score - 5 of 10 General Audience Score - 4 of 10 The post-apocalyptic earth movies are often fascinating takes on what possibilities may lie down the line for humanity. To see what’s left of a global catastrophe, to get a writer’s or director’s take on how people are surviving and what life could be like fifty, a hundred or more years from now, those visions have helped produce some incredible moments in cinematic history. Now we get The Colony, a new film about the bleak future of our planet after it’s been destroyed by disease, war and climate change making our current residence uninhabitable. The film combines various elements and inspiration from many others movies, mainly Waterworld, but also Children Of Men, Oblivion, Planet Of The Apes and even Wall-E. But despite gathering inspiration from many sources, the film feels surprisingly uninspired in much of it’s dialogue and writing choices. If you really love yourself some sci-fi, apocalyptic, futu...

Cruella - Movie Review Critics Score - 6 of 10 General Audience Score - 6 of 10 Before the modern animated Disney classics existed such as The Lion King and Beauty & The Beast, there were the original classics, the movies you owned on VHS as a kid growing up. Animated masterpieces like Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Pinocchio, The Jungle Book and 101 Dalmatians. Many of these films are being rebooted as Disney sees fit, although for the 101 Dalmatians franchise, Cruella slides in as a live action prequel more than a retelling of an original. But there’s something unsettling about many of the modern versions of animated classics, when new versions of films change things from the old, it’s as if Disney is the oil company and to get their pipeline through an area they’ll just need to run it through an Indian graveyard and pave over the hallowed ground without regards to the feelings of those who hold them sacred. Thankfully Cruella dodges many of the bullets that Disney reboots have fal...

Mortal Kombat - Movie Review Critics Score - 4 of 10 General Audience Score - 6 of 10 Video game adaptations to the big screen have a very spotty track record at best, from some of the original NES games getting adapted back in the 90’s, through to today, with a resurgence of popular games from Sonic to Resident Evil to a Tomb Raider reboot finding space on the big screen. But these films are often cash grabs with a marketable name and already established fan bases to secure dollars in the bank for studios looking to make a quick couple million, with very little quality going into the overall product. In comes the new Mortal Kombat film, ready to take on all comers with it’s spine ripping, blood soaked and fatality loving fan base hoping to make an inspired transferral to the theatrical. With two other Mortal Kombat films that predate our current century and are generally regarded as low caliber movie fare, can this new outing into the Earthrealm improve in elevating the brands video g...

Worth - Movie Review Critics Score - 7 of 10 General Audience Score - 7 of 10 How many dollars is a human life worth? Is the answer to that question dependent on personal details of the individual? How much they made each year, how many dependents they had, how old they were, their skin color, religious beliefs or sexual orientation? Those questions are ones the new film Worth that just dropped on Netflix tinkers with, which is interestingly enough based in reality. The true story covers the U.S. governments hiring of Ken Feinberg and his attempts to pay off relatives of those that died in the attacks of September 11, 2001, to prevent lawsuits and fallout that could result in an economic crisis. The movie feels like a Spotlight Jr., expanding on a story based on actual events from the early twenty-first century, hitting some of the same emotional beats along the way and also starring Michael Keaton and Stanley Tucci. The film succeeds in selling the drama of the events post 9/11 being ...