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Heist movies are fun. There are few things as satisfying in cinema as a well-executed plan coming to fruition, and the thieves that execute said plan making their getaway into the sunset.  It’s even better if they’re driving a cool car, and get to do a bunch of cool stunts.  Eenie Meanie, the directorial…

Weapons is not a subtle film. It is not difficult to draw a line from its premise -that one night at 2.17 in the morning, 17 children from the same elementary school class woke up, got out of bed, walked out the front door of their homes, and vanished into the darkness like a…

Marvel is, according to most, at a bit of a crossroads.  We spent a few years saturated in their stories post-Avengers: Endgame, and that time has left most of us a bit jaded thanks to what felt like a focus on quantity over quality. In 2025, they’ve promised to get back to a focus…

Spoof comedy is incredibly hard to get right in large part because one must be incredibly smart to write it.  It sounds counterintuitive, but some of the dumbest jokes you can think of require razor-sharp instincts and wit, and those things don’t grow on trees.  It’s not just that fart jokes require excellent timing;…

Handcuffing someone to a bed might be fun, but if you don’t let them go, it becomes a crime, a civil matter, or both.  In either case, this is the centre of the story of Oh, Hi!, the new comedy from director Sophie Brooks, co-written and starring Molly Gordon.  In the film, Gordon plays Iris,…

The Predator franchise is the platonic ideal of an action horror franchise.  There are highly skilled people in the world, and there’s a whole race of monsters that hunts those people for sport. The setup is simple, allowing it to serve as a framework for various kinds of stories.  At their worst, films in…

Sequels and prequels are individually difficult. The former have to carry on story threads and push characters into new places in satisfying ways, the latter have to thread the needle of being their own entity while directly leading into the events that viewers have already witnessed.  Andor season two then faces the difficulty of…