Tag: Drama

Mother Mary (2026) – Review

Much has been made about the desire to perform art at a certain level and the cinematic effects fame and talent can have on the

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Only Yesterday (1991) – Review

Just because your motion picture is made up of thousands upon thousands of individually hand-drawn pictures, it doesn’t mean you can’t be subtle with the

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The Smashing Machine (2025) – Review

For decades now, Dwayne Johnson – the artist formally known as The Rock – has been something of a poster boy for the modern, blockbuster

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The Exorcism Of Emily Rose (2005) – Review

While it took me some time to spot it, it seems that there’s nothing that Scott Derrickson likes more than to take a typical horror

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Casino (1995) – Review

During the 1990s, Martin Scorsese crafted a gangster movie that became embraced as one of – if not the – greatest mob movie ever made.

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The Karate Kid Part II (1986) – Review

While I’ve always found The Karate Kid to be too twee for my personal tastes, I have to say I do get why the high-kicking

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Presence (2024) – Review

Can we all agree that the next person to randomly slap a “scariest film of the year” label on a horror poster gets to be

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Greystoke: The Legend Of Tarzan, Lord Of The Apes (1984) – Review

Since his inception, Tarzan has been primarily the personification of a pulp adventure hero with such actors such as Johnny Weissmuller, Gordon Scott and the

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Megalopolis (2024) – Review

Once upon a time, a new breed of director descended upon an antiquated Hollywood armed to the teeth with new ideas and visions that would

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Mr. Harrigan’s Phone (2022) – Review

The last time a Stephen King adaption dabbled so blatantly with the notion of the smart phone, we got Cell, a movie about mankind having

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I Saw The TV Glow (2024) – Review

Part of the reason I love horror so much is that it’s just so goddamn pliable. If you want to watch a slow burning, intelligent

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The Bikeriders (2023) – Review

No matter what, even the most scowling, masculine brute needs a sense of belonging to get them through this unfeasibly random shit show we call

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Challengers (2024) – Review

Two opponents stand opposite each other, separated only by distance and a single net. One of them serves and the two embark on an intense

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Spaceman (2024) – Review

Whenever Adam Sandler decides to tackle a role with substance – rather than shape an entire comedy around just him hanging with his mates –

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The Iron Claw (2024) – Review

Anyone even remotely familar with the world of wrestling knows that it’s a life that can cause way more damage than a stiff clothesline or

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The Wrestler (2008) – Review

Until Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler stepped through the ropes to worldwide acclaim back in 2008, transferring the weird world of “Sports Entertainment” to the silver

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Season Of The Witch (1972) – Review

Not to be confused with the Michael Myers-less, third installment of the Halloween franchise or the 2011, medieval, Nicolas Cage clunker, Season Of The Witch

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Oppenheimer (2023) – Review

As clock counted down and the zero hour approached to the release of Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, it became apparent that its power didn’t just lurk

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Backdraft (1991) – Review

Why hasn’t there been more movies about fire fighters?I mean, there’s been tons that involve military personnel and countless films made about policing and police

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Days Of Thunder (1990) – Review

Days Of Thunder should have been an easy slam dunk. Think about it: Top Gun is an awesome movie, right? So what if we took

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