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Immaculate - Movie Review

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Immaculate - Movie Review Critics Score - 8 of 10 General Audience Score - 7 of 10 The horror film genre has mixed religious themes and church elements together with its scares for decades upon decades. From The Exorcist to modern films like Saint Maud and The Nun films, weaving thrilling elements into the topics of God/Satan, religion, the occult, demons and the supernatural go together like a hand in a glove. The latest film to try its hand at some crazy horror within the realm of a convent of Nuns is Immaculate, a new horror film from Neon studios, starring Sydney Sweeney. The film starts out with it’s eye on the ball of being a straight up thriller with a some startles up it’s sleeve and it works hard to create a eerie atmosphere, putting the audience on edge. But as the second act winds down this film begins to morph into an almost horror/comedy, where some of the line deliveries and gory scenes are fantastically amusing, making me laugh out loud several times. This film might be ...

Love Lies Bleeding - Movie Review

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Love Lies Bleeding - Movie Review Critics Score - 7 of 10 General Audience Score - 7 of 10 Kristen Stewart is an actress that has continuously been turning in superior performances since her early days working in the Twilight films, which are regularly mocked. Although she almost reverted to her twilight days with her Crimes Of The Future performance, her work in Personal Shopper, Clouds Of Sils Maria and most recently for her Oscar nominated role in Spencer, she has really taken her acting game to the upper tier. Stewart’s latest film drops into theatres this weekend, from A24 studios we get Love Lies Bleeding, where she works with the director Rose Glass, who directed Saint Maud. Although for brief moments through Bleeding we get a few of the Stewart eye flutters and it seems like she may revert to her previous acting style, she keeps it together and manages to sell us on this gym manager from New Mexico. This film is violent as times, sexy in others, very weird in one specific insta...

Dune 2 - Movie Review

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Dune 2 - Movie Review Critics Score - 10 of 10 General Audience Score - 10 of 10 Perfect cinema exists. When Thomas Edison and his assistant William Dickson developed the first kinetograph back in the late 1800’s, they couldn’t have possibly imagined what the medium would unlock for humanity. But sometimes, just sometimes, the human race is given a glimpse of something that we’ve never seen before via this cellulose nitrate vehicle. From the bow of the Titanic to the trenches of World War One, from the surface of the moon to the realm of Middle-Earth, we can now add the desert planet of Arrakis to the places we’ve been transported to thanks to the new film from Denis Villeneuve, Dune 2. The sequel to his prior film which primarily used its runtime to provide exposition to an enormous world and characters, this second part surpasses the first in its splendor and tenacity by getting to the meat of the Frank Herbert novel. And when I say “getting to the meat”, I mean, we feast. This film ...

Robot Dreams - Movie Review

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Robot Dreams - Movie Review Critics Score - 8 of 10 General Audience Score - 8 of 10 Kids Score - 7 of 10 Isaac Asimov was a Russian science fiction writer who passed away in the early 1990’s. He wrote quite extensively about the future and discussed A.I. and robots in many of his stories. As much of his work was written before our modern world of robot vacuum cleaners and self driving cars, much of Asimov’s work, including a short story called Robot Dreams, was theoretical in nature and speculated on what the future of technology might hold. The book Robot Dreams inspired the movie, I, Robot starring Will Smith from a couple decades ago, but the new film from Neon with the same name, Robot Dreams, dabbles in Asimov’s speculative ideas about what a Robot intelligence might “dream” about. This film is a relatively simple story of a dog in search of a friend, so he purchases a robot and assembles him. But all the adventures and experiences the dog and robot have mirror real life and the ...