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Box Office Report: ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Breaks Second-Weekend Record

By Matthew Moorcroft After it’s already impressive first weekend, Top Gun: Maverick flies away with the competition once again with record-breaking drops. Let’s break it down. 1 – Top Gun: Maverick ($86 million) The already amazing performing Maverick continued it’s early summer dominance into it’s second weekend. Bolstered by a lack new of releases, fantastic…
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Film Review: Top Gun: Maverick

By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Directed by Joseph Kosinski Starring Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Val Kilmer PG-13 What makes a legacy sequel a “legacy sequel”? That term has been thrown around quite a bit over the past few years for any sequel that comes out decades after the original but I think it’s…
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Box Office Report: ‘Top Gun’ Soars to Career Best for Tom Cruise

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TV Review: Obi-Wan Kenobi, Episodes 1-2

By Matthew Moorcroft Part I – Strong RecommendationPart II – Strong Recommendation Directed by Deborah Chow Starring Ewan McGregor, Rupert Friend, Moses Ingram, Vivien Lyra Blair TV-14 I’ll be the first to admit that Star Wars hasn’t exactly impressed me as of late. Sure there has been some episodes of The Mandalorian that were strong…
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TV Review: Arcane Season 1, Episodes 7-9

By Matthew Moorcroft Episode 7 (The Boy Saviour) – Highest RecommendationEpisode 8 (Oil and Water) – Highest RecommendationEpisode 9 (The Monster You Created) – Highest Recommendation Directed by Pascal Charrue & Arnaud Delord Starring Hailee Steinfeld, Ella Purnell, Kevin Alejandro, Katie Leung TV-14 When Ekko first shows himself again after an entire act of disappearance,…
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Film Review: Men

By Matthew Unsure Directed by Alex Garland Starring Jessie Buckley, Rory Kinnear, Paapa Essiedu, Gayle Rankin R What’s great about Alex Garland as a writer is the fact that every work of his is a massive swing. He’s more like a star baseball player then that of a genre fiction creator in that, when up…
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Star Wars Wednesdays: Revenge of the Sith

By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Welcome to Star Wars Wednesdays! Every Wednesday I’ll be talking about/looking at a new piece of Star Wars media, starting with the movies and going onwards into the shows, games, and maybe even comics and books if people are interested. These will work differently from my normal reviews as they…
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Box Office Report: ‘Doctor Strange’ Stays Put, ‘Firestarter’ Fizzles

By Matthew Moorcroft A new release this weekend goes to battle against reigning champion Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Does it work out? Let’s break it down. 1 – Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness ($61 million) Unsurprisingly, Doctor Strange held onto the first place spot in it’s second weekend, albeit with…
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TV Review: Arcane Season 1, Episodes 4-6

By Matthew Moorcroft Episode 4 (Happy Progress Day!) – Highest RecommendationEpisode 5 (Everybody Wants to Be My Enemy) – Highest RecommendationEpisode 6 (When These Walls Come Tumbling Down) – Highest Recommendation Directed by Pascal Charrue & Arnaud Delord Starring Hailee Steinfeld, Ella Purnell, Kevin Alejandro, Katie Leung TV-14 Progress is a bitch, isn’t it? I…
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Film Review: Firestarter (2022)

By Matthew Moorcroft Screw This Directed By Keith Thomas Starring Zac Efron, Ryan Kiera Armstrong, Sydney Lemmon, Michael Greyeyes R We live in a weird age of Stephen King resurgence where pretty much everything that he has adapted is either getting brought back for a do-over or some kind of continuation. And with the amount…