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Movie Review: The Old Guard

Movie Review: The Old Guard
THE OLD GUARD Genre: Action Rating: R Running Time: 125 mins. Where Can You See It?: Netflix Premise: A team of four immortal mercenaries led by Charlize Theron are joined by a newly immortal soldier (If Beale Street Could Talk’s Kiki Layne) to take down a power-hungry Pharma bro who is hell-bent on using their powers of rejuvenation in a... Read more »
By John Hammerle,
July 14, 2020 at 6:04 pm • 

Movie Review: The Platform

Movie Review: The Platform
THE PLATFORM Genre: International Rating: R Running Time: 94 mins. Where Can You See It?: Netflix Premise: Goreng (Ivan Massague) wakes up in a vertical prison that puts two people per level with an unknown number of levels. Each day, a single platform of food for all of them is lowered down to each level for two minutes. The... Read more »
By John Hammerle,
March 21, 2020 at 9:37 am • 

Movie Review: Sonic the Hedgehog

Movie Review: Sonic the Hedgehog
SONIC THE HEDGEHOG Genre: Family Rating: PG Running Time: 99 mins. Where Can You See It?: In theaters now Premise: Cast out of his home world for his own protection, Sonic (voiced by Ben Schwartz) has been hiding in small town Montana for 10 years. But, when his loneliness gets the best of him, he causes a nationwide... Read more »
By John Hammerle,
February 16, 2020 at 4:54 pm • 
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Movie Review: Horse Girl

Movie Review: Horse Girl
HORSE GIRL Genre: Drama Rating: R Running Time: 104 mins. Where Can You See It?: Netflix Premise: Sarah (Alison Brie), a socially awkward introvert who fancies horses and a TV show called Purgatory, finds her quiet life spiraling out of control when weird dreams she’s been having start creeping into her reality. Convinced she’s the clone of her dead... Read more »
By John Hammerle,
February 14, 2020 at 3:25 pm • 

Best Movies of the Decade (2010-2019)

Best Movies of the Decade (2010-2019)
A little late to the party here, as I think the window for all these “best of the decade” lists was late December or early January according to all podcasts I follow. But, who cares? I just started posting on the blog again last week, so here we are. Best of decade lists are interesting.... Read more »
By John Hammerle,
February 2, 2020 at 8:58 am • 

Summer Movie Forecast 2018

Summer Movie Forecast 2018
If I’m getting a late start on this year’s Summer Movie Forecast, it’s only because the summer movie season keeps getting earlier. With the release of Avengers: Infinity War a week early – on April 26 – summer officially began in April. Soon, we’ll just have huge blockbusters all year round. Black Panther is just... Read more »
By John Hammerle,
May 10, 2018 at 4:26 pm • 
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Movie Review - Avengers: Infinity War

Movie Review - Avengers: Infinity War
AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR Genre: Superhero Action Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 159 mins. Premise: Thanos sets out to collect all six Infinity stones so he can wipe out half of the population on every planet. It’s up to the Avengers to stop him. Behind-the-Scenes: Marvel has been building up to this movie for the past 10... Read more »
By John Hammerle,
April 28, 2018 at 12:58 pm • 

Ready Player One and All of Spielberg's Movies Ranked

Ready Player One and All of Spielberg's Movies Ranked
Ready Player One is in theaters now, and Film Twitter is deeply divided, as it is with nearly everything these days. Well, except for Paddington 2 and Black Panther. I have no interest in any of the hot takes about how it ignores Gamergate, fails to adequately portray The Iron Giant, or relies too heavily... Read more »
By John Hammerle,
April 8, 2018 at 2:12 pm • 

Movie Review: Black Panther

Movie Review: Black Panther
BLACK PANTHER Genre: Superhero Action Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 134 mins. Premise: In the wake of his father’s death, Prince T’Challa a/k/a Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman) assumes the throne and must quickly fend off a series of threats to his kingdom and the people of Wakanda. Behind-the-Scenes: The Black Panther comic was created by Stan... Read more »
By John Hammerle,
February 19, 2018 at 3:29 pm • 
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Most Anticipated Movies of 2018

Most Anticipated Movies of 2018
Now that we’re a few weeks into the new year, and, with the release of The Post and Phantom Thread, can finally put 2017 in our rear view mirror, it’s time to look ahead to the most anticipated movies of 2018! To help out with this post (heck, it was actually his idea to do... Read more »
By John Hammerle,
January 14, 2018 at 4:26 pm •