Paramount Pictures
Hit Me Hard and Soft doesn’t ever hurt for visual explosiveness, and it hits like a punch to the gut, saying in plain language that it is something truly special.
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The Naked Gun doesn’t want to do anything but give us a good time and an escape from our present day, rolling constant laughs into its blessedly short runtime.
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Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is straight-up movie magic, a hell of a statement on fighting the good fight and staying on the right side of history, orders be damned.
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“I live in the weak and the wounded… Doc.” — Mary Hobbes This quote from Brad Anderson’s criminally underseen and underappreciated Session 9 kept coming to me throughout my viewing of Smile 2. I could almost hear Jurian Hughes’ eerily disjointed voice winding its way through my mind, especially considering the themes of trauma that […]
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Starting with The Transformers: The Movie, the toy line and cartoon series has evolved a dubious cinematic life. The 1986 animated film was a childhood classic that still holds up, thanks to its outstanding voice cast (which includes Leonard Nimoy and Orson Welles, for cryin’ out loud!) and the hand-drawn visuals that endeared us to […]
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I’m wondering if A Quiet Place is going to become the new Friday the 13th franchise, deposited almost yearly into theaters to scare teen audiences. They share the same distributor – Paramount, who gave us the first eight Friday the 13ths, seven Paranormal Activitys, and is also giving us the eighth Mission: Impossible movie next […]
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The name alone – Bob Marley – is enough to ignite memories in your head. Most of the time, these memories bear happy feelings, because it’s the kind of music great for chilling out or having a drink with friends. (Or, if it’s legal where you are, rolling a “bob.”) Whether it’s hearing him for […]
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When the original Mean Girls made its debut in April 2004, it found an audience eager for its classroom drama and its comedy which showed us at our backbiting worst. Twenty years on, its legacy can be found in the numerous “Get in, loser, we’re going _____” memes that pervade social media and the evergreen […]
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As the father of two children, I am somewhat familiar with Nickelodeon’s “PAW Patrol” series. Both my daughters have progressed past the age range intended for the series, but my youngest, Ari (who turns 11 a day or two after this goes live), asked to join me for a screening of the new film, PAW […]
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As someone who lived through the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles surge of the late 1980s, three theatrically-released live-action films, numerous video games (at home and in the arcade), multiple animated iterations, and a series of Michael Bay-produced films, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is everything I could possibly have hoped it would be. Loose, […]
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