NOTE: Here is my review from Soda & Telepaths that was posted back on April 8th, 2021
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier S01E02 Review and Recap
NOTE: Here is my review from Soda & Telepaths that was posted back on March 31st, 2021
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier S01E01 Review and Recap
NOTE: Here is my review from Soda & Telepaths that was posted back on March 24th, 2021
About The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier is a Disney+ series set in the Marvel Cinematic universe, six months after the events of Avengers: Endgame. This six-episode miniseries aired the first episode on March 19th, meaning we have new Friday night appointment television now that WandaVision’s finished
No Time to Die (2021) – Timeless
Released: 11th November 2021
Seen: 24th February 2022
Since his first appearance in film in 1962, James Bond has been a staple of cinema. Over 25 outings he has been the first image we think of when we think of spies, with his gadgets and his Bond Girls and his dry martini that’s shaken but not stirred. He’s an icon who has been so powerful that he has somehow survived through a half-dozen different actors playing him over his long film career. The most recent actor to drive the legendary Aston Martin, Daniel Craig, decided that the latest film No Time To Die would be his final time playing the legend with the license to kill and god damn is he going down swinging.
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Blood Moon (2021) – Blood Moon Rising
NOTE: Here is my review from Soda & Telepaths that was posted back on March 22, 2021
The Into the Dark series is a monthly anthology on Hulu centered around the idea of holidays. Every month a new film would be released around some random holiday, this has been the way things were since October of 2018… until, ya know, the plague happened and they took a break between August 2020 and Jan of this year. Well, now it’s March and Into the Dark is back with another holiday film, in this case, inspired by the Spring Full Moon, Blood Moon.
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Slaxx (2021) – Fashionably Fun Horror
NOTE: Here is my review from Soda & Telepaths that was posted back on March 17, 2021
It’s the night before a trendy fashion outlet launches its new line and everyone is required to be on hand to help restock the store with the brand new product. What’s the product? Why it’s a pair of jeans that forms perfectly to your body type giving you the best possible shape that anyone could ever hope to have. They’re stylish, slimming, sexy and sentient. That’s right, due to the power of “Do you care why?” the jeans are alive and hungry for blood and they’re going to start with the fashion store workers and the high paid influencers, as all jeans-based murder sprees should!
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Boulevard! A Hollywood Story (2022) – Ready For My Close Up!
Seen as part of the Mardi Gras Film Festival
In 1950, the glorious film noir, Sunset Boulevard was released. A film about an aging starlet who sees one final chance to regain her stardom, the film briefly revitalised the career of the legendary silent film actress Gloria Swanson. To this day Sunset Boulevard is revered as a classic of cinema and was the inspiration for the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical of the same name (that will apparently be turned into a movie for Glenn Close to star in and hopefully win the damn Oscar she’s long overdue). However, before Andrew Lloyd Webber even had the idea of putting the story of Sunset Boulevard to music, Gloria Swanson herself tried to pull it off and the story behind what happened to that show feels all too familiar.
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Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022) – This Blade Is Dull
Released: 18th February
Seen: 20th February
There has been a trend in horror films lately where a classic slasher franchise will do a sequel starring the original cast set about 40 years after the original film that ignores every other sequel that came before it. This trend has given us absolutely brilliant films like the 2018 Halloween and it’s given us reasons to despise the very concept of cinema with things like I Spit On Your Grave: Deja Vu. It’s a high risk-high reward concept because it will pull in fans who want a heavy hit of pure nostalgia but you then have to give them a film that somehow honours the original while also being something new and fun. Texas Chainsaw Massacre does none of that, it just exists in a boring way that makes me wonder why this franchise keeps on going.
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The Tragedy Of Macbeth (2022) – The Scottish Film
Released: 14th January
Seen: 19th February
If one were to take a wild guess at who was the most frequently performed and adapted writer in history, chances are good your first guess would be Shakespeare and you would more than likely be right. His work is incredibly malleable and easy to adapt into anything you want. His works can be turned into cartoons about a pride of lions (Lion King = Hamlet), it can be a fun 90s romcom (10 Things I Hate About You = Taming Of The Shrew) or it can be a classic Hollywood musical (West Side Story = Romeo & Juliet).
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Lava (2021) – It’s De-Lava-Ly
NOTE: Here is my review from Soda & Telepaths that was posted back on March 17th, 2021
The story of Lava starts like a lot of weird stories begin, with a trip to the tattoo artist. In this case, the tattoo artist is Deborah (Janeane Garofalo) who is trying to live a normal life like any other person of this generation. She goes to work, tattoos people, then comes home to hang out with some friends and watch a pirated copy of the latest episode of Game of Clones (which is apparently just like Game of Thrones but with sentient vegetables, if the Veggetales people could get on making that a reality I would be very happy).
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