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Predator: Badlands Review - A deviation from the past, Trachtenberg creates rich, new ground to explore
"A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree." - Helen Keller Few franchises get the kind of leeway like the Alien and Predator franchises. Most potentially burgeoning franchises are lucky to get one shot, maybe two if the first is well-received. However in Hollywood, although it may be unfair to put profit before art, it is a business and the studio execs expect a return on their investments. Even if a movie gets stellar

Chase Gifford
2 days ago6 min read


Mayor of Kingstown - Season 4 Recap & Review: Episode 402 - Promises to Keep
“The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.” - David Hume Just to list a few of the insane amount of projects Taylor Sheridan is working on: six Yellowstone spinoffs including 1883 , 1923 , and in development, 1944 , The Madison , Y: Marshals , and another tentatively titled Dutton Ranch . He also helped create Landman , Tulsa King , Lioness , and the reason you’re here, Mayor of Kingstown . I think the most amazing aspect of so many projects in various

Chase Gifford
6 days ago4 min read


Best Final Girls In Horror
"Get away from her, you bitch!" - Ellen Ripley (Aliens, 1986) There are male dominated horror films and there are female. Like it or not, the man is expected to be the hero. Unfair? Yeah but it is what it is. But the Final Girl is a fantastic horror trope that subverts expectations creating an unexpected twist on what characters may initially be perceived as damsels in distress. Well these eleven damsels have had enough and will stand ten toes down against their most daunting

Chase Gifford
Oct 306 min read


Mayor of Kingstown - Season 4 Recap & Review: Episode 401 - Coming 'Round the Mountain
“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” - John Dalberg-Acton Just to list a few of the insane amount of projects Taylor Sheridan is working on: six Yellowstone spinoffs including 1883 , 1923 , and in development, 1944 , The Madison , Y: Marshals , and another tentatively titled Dutton Ranch . He also helped create Landman , Tulsa King , Lioness , and the reason you’re here, Mayor of Kingstown . I think the most amazing aspect of so many projects

Chase Gifford
Oct 264 min read


Frankenstein Review - Beautiful, Tragic, Gothic, Perfection.
“Beware; for I am fearless and therefore powerful.” - Mary Shelley Some filmmakers are born for certain projects. David Fincher and Zodiac are peanut butter and jelly. Tim Burton and Beetlejuice is Coca-Cola on ice. Guillermo del Toro and Frankenstein is apple pie and ice cream. (This is making me hungry.) The very themes of Frankenstei n, despite being written in 1816 by Mary Shelley, are themes del Toro has explored many times before. Man & monster, life & death, immo

Chase Gifford
Oct 175 min read


Black Phone 2 Review - The Grabber Returns!
“People find it difficult to let go of their pain. They prefer familiar suffering because they fear the unknown.” - Thich Nhat Hanh If there was ever a movie I never imagined a sequel for, it would be The Black Phone . The first ties everything up perfectly with anything left unsaid left not so much for interpretation but something more like hoping for the best. You hope their father either learned his lesson or Finney grew up enough to set him straight one day. You hope th

Chase Gifford
Oct 154 min read


Roofman Review - An absurd story. Funny, poignant, and somehow... all true.
“He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.”...

Chase Gifford
Oct 105 min read


Tron: Ares Review - Plenty of spectacle with a phenomenal soundtrack keeping afloat a lackluster story
“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.” - Albert Einstein In 1982 Tron premiered. When it...

Chase Gifford
Oct 85 min read


One Battle After Another Review - A Modern, Masterful & Sweeping Epic
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” - John F. Kennedy Talent is attainable no matter...

Chase Gifford
Sep 255 min read


The Terminal List: Dark Wolf Series Recap & Review - Episode 107: The Wolf You Feed
"Brothers in arms are brothers for life." - Clone Cadets I’ve heard series like this referred to as “dad shows.” Prime Video’s Reacher ,...

Chase Gifford
Sep 234 min read


HIM Review - A Twisted Glimpse of Gladiatorial Glory on the Gridiron
“ Glory is sacrifice, glory is exhaustion, glory is having nothing left to give. ” - N.D. Wilson The subgenre of sports-horror is...

Chase Gifford
Sep 184 min read


The Terminal List: Dark Wolf Series Recap & Review - Episode 106: Pawns & Kings
"Brotherhood in war proves that humanity thrives even in the darkest places." - unknown I’ve heard series like this referred to as “dad...

Chase Gifford
Sep 164 min read


The Long Walk Review - Challenging, Violent, Captivating
“It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.” – J.R.R. Tolkien Isolation thrillers are limited by the...

Chase Gifford
Sep 125 min read


The Terminal List: Dark Wolf Series Recap & Review - Episode 105: E & E
"The battlefield is where friendships are forged and brotherhoods are tested." - unknown I’ve heard series like this referred to as “dad...

Chase Gifford
Sep 94 min read


The Terminal List: Dark Wolf Series Recap & Review - Episode 104: The Sound of Guns
“ Brotherhood is the very price and condition of man’s survival." - Carlos P. Romulo I’ve heard series like this referred to as “dad...

Chase Gifford
Sep 24 min read


The Wizard of Oz at Sphere (Review) - Colossal Spectacle 86 years in the making
“I've always taken 'The Wizard of Oz' very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow. And I've spent my entire life...

Chase Gifford
Sep 17 min read


Caught Stealing Review - Aronofsky's funniest effort still provides plenty of thrilling drama
“Don’t fear the enemy that attacks you but the fake friend that hugs you.” - Obameso Sunkanmi We are in a new era of the “one-man army”...

Chase Gifford
Aug 315 min read


The Terminal List: Dark Wolf Series Recap & Review - Episode 103: What's Past is Prologue
"Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts." - Max Lerner I’ve heard series like this referred to as “dad...

Chase Gifford
Aug 264 min read


The Terminal List: Dark Wolf Series Recap & Review - Episode 102: The Audition
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." - Martin Luther King Jr I’ve heard series like this referred to...

Chase Gifford
Aug 264 min read


The Terminal List: Dark Wolf Series Recap & Review - Episode 101: Inherent Resolve
"In death as in life, we stand together, always a family, always a team. The brotherhood never dies." - Marcus Luttrell I’ve heard series...

Chase Gifford
Aug 264 min read
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