Category: John
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Cinema Royale: Talking ‘F9’ And Justice For Han, ‘The Ice Road’, ‘Loki’, Canon Films
This week on Cinema Royale we check the latest 1/4 mile time with F9, the latest in the Fast & Furious franchise, and just end up missing Gal Gadot’s Giselle. *sniff* Please come back, Giselle! Then we ponder how Liam Neeson is still a believable action star in his 70’s in The Ice Road which…
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Review: ‘Edge of the World’
Jonathan Rhys-Meyers and Dominic Monaghan Lead A Solid Adventure Through Defiance
Review: Edge of the World I don’t know about you guys, but I’ve been dying to finally see a film about the first white rajah of Sarawak in Borneo. I’m talking, of course, about Sir James Brooke, a British explorer from the 19th century who would have been the kind of guy Indiana Jones grew…
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Review: ‘The Amusement Park’
George A. Romero’s long lost film drops you head first into a Rockwellian acid trip, and just gets weirder from there.
A film whose backstory is as strange as its content The Amusement Park is finally available for wide consumption on Shudder. Billed as George A. Romero’s lost feature The Amusement Park was shot in 1973 as a commission done by Romero for The Lutheran Service Society of Western Pennsylvania and the Pitcairn-Crabbe Foundation. That bit…
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Cinema Royale: Talking ‘A Quiet Place Part II’, ‘Cruella’, Amazon/MGM, JJ Abrams ‘Star Wars’ Plan, & More
On this week’s Cinema Royale, we’re talking the triumphant premiere of A Quiet Place Part II and its impact on the box office. But does John Krasinski’s long-awaited sequel make as much noise as the first? Plus, Disney’s latest reclamation project Cruella has Emma Stone as the iconic 101 Dalmatians villain, but should you care…
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Review: ‘High Ground’
Stephen Maxwell Johnson Tells A Jarring Tale About Loyalty From The Dark Side of Australia’s History
Of all of the under-represented and underserved in the history books Australia’s Indigenous people must be somewhere near the top. Perhaps in Europe they learn more about what these people have gone through at the hands of British colonialism, but somehow, I doubt it. Even sitting here writing this, I don’t know very much in…
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Review: ‘Tyger Tyger’
Kerry Mondragon Abandons a Relevant Plot In Favor of Pretty Pictures
COVID-19 hasn’t even slowed and already we’ve had a handful of pandemic films of varying quality, but we haven’t had THE pandemic movie yet. It’s really not fair for me to put Tyger Tyger in that group, yes it does have a devastating pandemic at the heart of it’s story but the film was made…
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Review: ‘Wrong Turn’
Mike P. Nelson Delivers a Terrifyingly Gory Remake That Hits Its Marks
It really seems like every day there is something else that’s meant to make me feel old. Until now, reboots and remakes were a slice of comfort. The source was always some film or franchise from my childhood, and that was just fine by me, but we’ve turned a corner my friends…now movies made in…