(A recent text exchange with my little brother Connor)
Connor: (Star Wars Episode III) Revenge of the Sith is 18 years old!
Me: Finding Nemo is 20 years old.
Connor: Touché
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Elemental (2023)
Category: 3 1/2 Stars
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The Little Mermaid (2023)
Not long into The Little Mermaid, I wondered if I should now be disqualified from reviewing any more of the live action remakes.
As a nineties kid, I am not alone in saying how much Disney meant to me, especially when I think back to the VHS collection I had (no one had a better VHS case like Disney: those things felt bulletproof). Now we are in the remake stage.
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Cocaine Bear (2023)
Not since Snakes on a Plane has a movie’s premise been so wrapped in it’s title more so than Cocaine Bear.
As someone who has never used cocaine (and never plans to), all of my “experiences” with cocaine (or other drugs for that matter) have been through media (though, if I am to believe old rumors, some in my high school graduating class may know something about these endeavors).
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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)
It is feasible to believe that no other MCU film to date has had a bigger emotional mountain to climb than Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
The first film was such a mammoth success (financially, critically, and even Oscar wise) that a sequel was inevitable from the get go. Then, of course, tragedy struck when the world lost Chadwick Boseman in August of 2020, leaving the sequel in serious jeopardy. Also add in the fact that this would be the final film in Phase 4 of the MCU, and you can see why this film had a lot to accomplish.
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The Woman King (2022)
57.
That is the number you should know going into seeing The Woman King, for that is the age of it’s star Viola Davis.
Like many a millennial, I grew associating filmmaker Sam Raimi with the Tobey Maguire Spider-Man Trilogy. While known to be a potent force in the arena of cinematic horror, I sadly have only seen one Sam Raimi horror film as of this writing, The Evil Dead (although one could make the argument Spider-Man 3 was actually a horror in other ways).
Before we saw The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (one of the best movie titles in recent memory), my friend Peter asked an interesting question.
“Who would win in a fight: Nicholas Cage or Chuck Norris?”
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Scream (2022)
Being that I saw the original Scream around the ripe age of 11 or so (it was all the hype in fourth grade), it took me some time to understand the “meta” aspect of the film.
Eventually (after seeing Scream 2, the only sequel I would see until now), I would get the references in the original as I would have seen most of the movies the characters have talked about. Thankfully, one does not need to see any of the other sequels to understand the newest Scream film (technically, “Scream 5”).
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West Side Story (2021)
Note: If you have not seen the original film, I forbid you to read any further until you have seen it. It is on HULU. Get a free trial. Do whatever you have to. I will wait.
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Seriously, go see it.
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Okay, you are back. Now for the review.
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House of Gucci (2021)
It is a bit poetic that House of Gucci was released on Thanksgiving Weekend.
Like a big meal, House of Gucci will look appealing to many who may end up being surprised at the taste. It has parts that will be an acquired taste, while others will find it takes some time to digest.
Nothing else to say 