Author Archives
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Old Henry
Tim Blake Nelson has the true grit as a farmer with a secret. Probably my favorite performance from Tim Blake Nelson comes from “O’Brother Where Art Thou,” which was a Coen Brothers version of “The Odyssey.” He was excellent in… Read More ›
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Lamb
A strange movie that will leave ewe curious and stunned at the same time. I wasn’t exactly sure how the set-up of “Lamb” was gonna go down. The trailers made it look like childless parents finally having a child with… Read More ›
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No Time to Die
It’s worth the wait to see Daniel Craig playing James Bond one last time. It’s about bloody damn time, if you ask me. “No Time to Die,” which is the last 007 movie to star Daniel Craig, is finally coming… Read More ›
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Venom 2, Many Saints of Newark, and I’m Your Man Podcast Reviews
CJ dishes movies about anti-heroes, gangsters, and robots on the air. I’ve joined a radio station known as NewHD, which will not only hire people on the Autism spectrum, but will also have me doing podcast movie reviews for them…. Read More ›
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Titane
A girl goes from brat to killer in this WTF French import. “Titane,” the French film that made writer/director Julia Duccourna (“Raw”) the second female director to win the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, is a bizarre and… Read More ›
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Venom: Let There Be Carnage, The Many Saints of Newark, and I’m Your Man Video Reviews
CJ’s video reviews star Tom Hardy, Ray Liotta, and Dan Stevens. This week’s video reviews consist of the sequel “Venom: Let There Be Carnage” with Tom Hardy and Woody Harrelson, the prequel to the “Sopranos” show “The Many Saints of… Read More ›
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Venom: Let There Be Carnage
It’s better than the first, which isn’t saying much. I’ve said “Venom” was “a mean-spirited and noisy debacle with unlikable characters, bad special effects, pointless violence, and no plot. It ranks with some of the worst superhero movies in recent… Read More ›
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Mayday
A war you can’t win. The initials for the title “Mayday” are repeated as “Mary,” “Alpha,” “Yankee,” “Delta,” “Alpha,” and “Yankee.” And they’re echoed until we see the person speaking those words on the radio. “Mayday” is a drama fantasy… Read More ›
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Midnight Mass
Mike Flanagan’s Netflix series has its angels and demons. Mike Flanagan is known for directing such horror films as “Oculus” and “Doctor Strange,” and shows like “The Haunting of Hill House.” Now, he has a new show on Netflix,” which… Read More ›
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The Many Saints of Newark
It woke up this morning and got itself some popcorn. “The Sopranos” is the next live-action series to get a movie, following “The X-Files,” “Sex & The City,” “Veronica Mars,” and “Downton Abbey,” but this one is a prequel known… Read More ›