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Dr. Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness - Movie Review Critics Score - 7 of 10 General Audience Score - 8 of 10 Since the insane hype surrounding the Avengers Infinity War & Endgame movies from a few years back has died down, I’ve found myself far less enthralled with Marvel filmmaking. I still enjoy some aspects of these superhero movies, but I’ve been shaken out of Disney’s spell of enchantment that was over me. I’ve been freed from my need to see these films immediately, standing in lines and waiting in virtual queue’s to be among the first people on the planet to witness what Marvel secrets were waiting for the masses next. Doctor Strange was the first time I’d been in a theatre for a Marvel film since Endgame. After so many disappointing efforts last year from the studio, it was almost astounding how the direction of Sam Raimi is able to shine through the Marvel/Disney blanket that has stifled so many other unique directorial voices. Sam puts his propensity towards darkness a...

Monstrous - Movie Review Critics Score - 5 of 10 General Audience Score - 4 of 10 The 1950’s were a period of history that is delightful to witness on screen. As I didn’t have the privilege of being alive during the post-WW2 era, I can only get my fix of this bygone era with it’s cocktail dresses and whitewall tires via old movies and archival film footage. In comes Monstrous, a new smaller film from Screen Media set in the same decade that Elvis Presley became famous. Christina Ricci plays a housewife on the run with her young son, but after escaping to a house in the country, some strange things start happening in connection to a pond nearby. While the 50’s nostalgia factor is pretty neat, once the film gets into the horror elements, it becomes this weird concoction of genres that clash more than they fit together. I can’t help but feel the film going full tilt into the horror realm was a mistake, not only because it doesn’t succeed in creating thrills, but because it took itself way...

Kimi - Movie Review Critics Score - 7 of 10 General Audience Score - 7 of 10 In early 2020 the world as we know it had screeched to a halt. Crowded city streets with car horns blaring became scenes out of I Am Legend or another apocalypse film. Buildings normally flooded with office workers and young professionals became a barren wasteland of the occasional security guard and cleaning crew. An industry that also changed gears was the movie business. Major studio blockbuster films took a turn toward smaller budgeted, simpler films with straightforward premises. We went from Star Wars and Avengers in 2019 to more films like The Guilty and Malcolm & Marie, both Netflix titles. Huge casts were replaced with smaller ones and massive sets were traded in for consolidated films that take place in just a couple locations. Which is why we’ve gotten Kimi, one of the latest films to drop on HBO Max. General audiences and critics alike can appreciate the lockdown era style of tight, slimmed dow...

Everything Everywhere All At Once - Movie Review Critics Score - 8 of 10 General Audience Score - 8 of 10 When it comes to movies that explore anything to do with science, space travel and astrophysics, I’m in. Interstellar, Contact, even Stargate, give them to me now. But the multiverse theories and films portraying them have become more popular of late. While most of the ideas of a multiverse we’ve seen in film are related to Marvel, Spider-Man or any of the standard superhero tropes, to deviate and explore this concept devoid of radioactive spiders or supernatural powers is completely unorthodox. It is also incredibly fascinating. The latest film from A24 tries it’s hand at the alternate realities hypothesis and while it does get a bit out of control at times, to say this film is enrapturing is an understatement. It is wildly entertaining. Although the entertainment factor is high, the multiverse premise plays out like a time travel movie, audiences shouldn’t expect every plot point...