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The Whale - Movie Review Critics Score - 9 of 10 General Audience Score - 8 of 10 The topics of diet, weight loss, weight gain and body image are among some of the most interesting yet delicate topics that are prevalent in society today. While there are those that say that physical beauty can be found in anyone, persons of all shapes and sizes, society and especially the food industry is hell bent on assisting anyone with an appetite, (raises hand), to consume massive amounts of unnecessary, unhealthy and even addictive foods and drinks of all kinds. The latest film from Darren Aronofsky is The Whale, a curiously double entendre title about an extremely obese man who is grappling with several different issues while his diet and health problems have him staring death in the face. Brendan Fraser is fantastic and does some truly impressive and career defining work as Charlie, the film’s central character and the man we can’t seem to take our eyes off of whenever he’s on screen. I found al...

Holy Spider - Movie Review Critics Score - 9 of 10 General Audience Score - 8 of 10 Every year we get a host of crime/thriller films, the basic premise we’ve seen a thousand times. There’s a murder to kick things off. A protagonist detective or police officer walks a crime scene to begin the film and the standard formula of a cat and mouse game begins to play out, usually culminating in some kind of epic showdown. Sometimes films like Se7en, Silence Of The Lambs and even The Batman from earlier in 2022, find ways of reimagining and elevating this age old material into something exciting and different. A new film from Iranian director Ali Abbasi called Holy Spider is a wildly different approach to an age old genre film. Midway through the second act the movie hits the point where a normal crime thriller would culminate, I began to wonder what they could possibly do with the remaining forty-five minutes of runtime. But the film twists, turns. and only became more fascinating and challeng...