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Three Thousand Years Of Longing - Movie Review Critics Score - 7 of 10 General Audience Score - 5 of 10 When the Australian writer, director, producer and editor George Miller started working on films back in the 1970’s, he started out small but then he finally hit pay dirt 1979 with Mel Gibson in a little film called Mad Max. Miller collaborated with Gibson twice on Mad Max sequels but in 2015 released another Max Max film, Mad Max Fury Road, which is generally considered one of the greatest action movies of all time. His follow up to that masterpiece of filmmaking is narratively a bit off the beaten path, Three Thousand Years Of Longing, a new film featuring Idris Elba as a djinn, or as they’re commonly referred to in the U.S., a genie. Tilda Swinton is an academic who finds the bootle he inhabits and releases him. This film is engaging, interesting, stylistic and downright weird. I was never bored. The first two acts work exceptionally well from a narrative standpoint but then the f...

Bodies Bodies Bodies - Movie Review Critics Score - 8 of 10 General Audience Score - 9 of 10 Cinephiles readily recognize the studio name A24, but general audiences may not be as aware of this newer film studio, like if you were to say, “the new A24 film”, many would say “what’s that?”. Well, A24 is a movie studio and distributor that has become a mainstay in the world of art house, eclectic and foreign movies and has generally solid filmmaking standards. While they love the horror film genre over there at A24, I haven’t seen them handle many films specifically like their new movie, Bodies Bodies Bodies. It’s more of a Knives Out type of film, a stylish who-dun-it that skews heavily towards a Gen-Z demographic with it’s brilliant cast of younger actors and actresses. Despite it’s appeal to youth, in much the same way Knives Out delivered a combination of suspense and laughs, Bodies Bodies Bodies leaves a trail of murder, mystery and hilarity in it’s wake that will leave audiences of al...

Prey - Movie Review Critics Score - 7 of 10 General Audience Score - 8 of 10 I can still remember the first time I watched the original Predator film, I was on vacation at a hotel and we were watching TNT or TBS or one of those cable channels, for those that remember cable television. The sequence of Bill Duke seeing an invisible creature in the jungle, grabbing that minigun and firing it like crazy, Arnold Schwarzenegger and company joining in and shooting the crap out of the jungle is all still indelibly etched on my memory. From that film, the Predator IP has spawned a couple sequels and a few other iterations of the property as well as some films that tried to stitch the Alien and Predator franchises together. But now 20th Century Fox has unceremoniously dropped the new film Prey, a prequel of sorts for the franchise, onto the Hulu streaming service. The director Dan Trachtenberg (10 Cloverfield Lane) clearly has an eye for the the sci-fi genre, even though this film plays almost l...

Luck - Movie Review Critics Score - 5 of 10 General Audience Score - 5 of 10 Kids Score - 6 of 10 In it’s efforts to reel in subscribers, Apple+ has been getting some pretty great TV shows with some impressive quality in the last year or so. On the movie front, they still have only a handful of original films, some better than others, but they did get Coda, the Best Picture winner from last year to add some clout to their lineup. They now are getting their first digitally animated film, after the wonderfully hand drawn animated Wolfwalkers from a couple years ago, Luck debuts as their first fully CG film. Unfortunately the movie fails to impress on both the animated front as well as much of the story and screenwriting elements. The Skydance Animation studio behind the film clearly had aspirations of an Inside Out part two, but to compare Luck to Inside Out would be an atrocity. While the film struggled just to be average in most every way, to compare it to Pixar’s Lightyear from a coup...