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4.8

One Battle After Another – MOVIE REVIEW

September 25, 2025

Entertainment, Featured, Film Reviews

Paul Thomas Anderson just made the kind of movie that makes you remember why theaters exist. One Battle After Another blasts out of the gate with a lean premise and then keeps stacking tension and character be...

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Shelby Oaks Haunts Fantastic Fest with a Strong Directorial Debut

September 24, 2025

Featured, Film Reviews, Films

Attendees of Austin's Fantastic Fest loves welcoming bold genre swings and late-night horror discoveries. Shelby Oaks fits right in with the festival premiere of Chris Stuckmann's directorial debut. Stuckmann ...

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WEAPONS (Review): Slow Burn Horror That Sticks With You

August 8, 2025

Featured, Film Reviews

Final Verdict: 4 out of 5 Buckets of Popcorn Zach Cregger might just be the most casually unhinged filmmaker working today. After the curveball that was Barbarian, I walked into an experiential screening of...

Superman (2)

4.3

Superman (2025): AFM Popcorn Flicks Review

July 8, 2025

Entertainment, Featured, Film Reviews, Films

If you grew up watching the Superman: The Animated Series on weekday afternoons with a bowl of cereal, or you were a big fan of the Smallville series with the unwavering belief that truth and justice weren’t j...

F1 (2025) Movie Review: A Formula That Still Works, Thanks to Pitt

June 27, 2025

Featured, Film Reviews

There are movies that try really hard to impress you. Then there is F1. It just walks in cool as hell, gives you a nod, and drops a cinematic gearshift into your chest. It does not reinvent the sports movie pl...

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Mission Impossible The Final Reckoning (2025 Review)

May 30, 2025

Film Reviews, Films

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is technically Part Two of Dead Reckoning, though it seems like the studio would prefer that we forget that. The movie opens with enough exposition to qualify as a doc...

SINNERS (2025) – AFM Movie Review

April 28, 2025

There’s a moment about halfway through Sinners where Michael B. Jordan, playing twin brothers, stares into a cracked mirror. Right then, it hit me — we’re watching something special. Ryan Coogler didn’t just d...

Warfare Review

4.9

Warfare (2025) A24 Delivers The Most Brutal War Film Yet

April 1, 2025

Film Reviews, Films, News

Warfare (2025) is a visceral war action film co-written and directed by Alex Garland and former Navy SEAL Ray Mendoza. Drawing directly from Mendoza’s firsthand experience in the Iraq War, the film is inspired...

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4.9

FRIENDSHIP (Review) – The Funniest Movie of SXSW 2025

March 21, 2025

Featured, Film Reviews, SXSW

Every year at SXSW, there’s always that one film that gets unanimous praise from everyone in the audience. A24's Friendship, the new comedy from director Andrew D. Young, is one of those rare gems. It’s not ju...

Holland SXSW Movie

3.8

HOLLAND Delivers the Thrills and Paranoia at SXSW (2025) Movie Review

March 17, 2025

Featured, Film Reviews, SXSW

I saw a lot of films (12) this year at SXSW, and Holland, was one of my most anticipated films of the festival. Not just because of the cast, including Nicole Kidman, Matthew Macfadyen, and Gael García Bernal,...