Let’s start with this first trailer for the new Planet of the Apes film, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes: I’m a huge Planet of the Apes fan, so I’m excited that a new Apes trailer is in the work!  Will the general audience be interested in a fourth film in this re

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I loved season one of Loki!  It was joyously weird and strange, dipping into obscure corners of the Marvel Comics universe (I never thought the Time Variant Authority would be depicted on-screen!), and it provided a well-deserved showcase for Tom Hiddleston’s villain-who-we-lov

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The Creator is set in 2055, in a world in which A.I. has evolved to the point that robots and humanoid “simulants” look and act very human.  But after A.I. detonated a nuclear warhead in Los Angeles, the United States declared war on all A.I. and used its military might t

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Hypnotic stars Ben Affleck as Danny Rourke, a cop whose daughter mysteriously vanished years earlier.  As the film opens, he and his partner Nicks (J. D. Pardo) are assigned to stake out a bank, because they’ve received an anonymous tip of an impending robbery.  Despite their

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I was blown away by the Barbie movie when I saw it at the end of the summer.  I have some friends who thought this movie wouldn’t be in my wheelhouse… but I’m a big believer in the idea that one can craft compelling, entertaining, and moving stories out of corporate

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Damien Chazelle’s Babylon depicts the world of Hollywood in the late twenties and early thirties, the time when sound was first introduced into movies.  We follow the shifting fortunes of several individuals at different levels of success (or lack thereof) in Hollywood.  Manny

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