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Hot Take: The Mummy was a poor attempt to launch a franchise that forgot it should try and be a good movie. Heck, based on the resulting film, they might not have even cared if they made a good movie. The next one in Universal’s Dark Universe should be free to all The Mummy ticketholders… If they are willing to risk wasting another 2 hours of their life.

The beginning of The Mummy is terrible… then it got worse… and worse… and worse. It’s so bad that I’m throwing out the “Spoiler Free” nature of these reviews and might end up giving away some information that might reveal tidbits of the film. Don’t worry, though. You can’t spoil something this rotten. Read More →

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Between last week and this week, 21 movies have become available for your home viewing pleasure. The list isn’t the best but there’s at least plenty to choose from. If you’re questioning whether you should read further, realize there are movies starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jean-Claude Van Damme on this list. (I’m not sure if that’s a selling point or a caution.) Here’s what to buy, rent, stream and skip for the weeks of June 6 & 13:Read More →

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Hot Take: More hopeless than horror with an ending that leaves you asking yourself, “Why bother?” There’s no payoff and I didn’t lose a second of sleep over the events that transpired.

One thing I expect to happen when watching a horror film is, soon after, I will lose a little bit of sleep over something I’ve seen in it. Even some of the worst horror films have moments that shake my nerves enough to cause me to lose a few minutes of sleep. (Although, to be fair, since I’ve given up caffeine, hardly anything can stop me from sleeping.) Nothing even close to that happens in It Comes At Night, a dark, hopeless, post-apocalyptic horror film that attempts to be more cerebral than visual in its attack on your nerves. Read More →

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Hot Take: Wonder Woman is a wonderful film. It even overcomes comic film fatigue… and that’s saying a lot. Best film of the year (as of June 4) but 2017 still doesn’t have a 5 star movie yet.

The best part of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice was the first appearance of Wonder Woman. At the time, seeing Gal Gadot don the tiara and knowing there was a future solo film was exciting. Add in the fact that 2017 has been particularly bereft of great films and Wonder Woman was primed for a turn in the spotlight. By weekend’s end, it looks like the origin story of this DCEU character is likely to top $100 million at the box office which will not only be considered a pretty big success for the film, it’s also the highest grossing opening weekend for a film directed by a female. The bigger question, though, is was Wonder Woman any good?
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Hot Take: If you want to see the difference between a movie that is juvenile and a movie that celebrates juvenile, see Captain Underpants. It’s an overall harmless good time at the movies for all ages but especially kids.

Make no mistake about it, Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie is geared toward the younger set. Filled with potty humor and outlandishly imaginative vignettes, the movie, based on a best-selling children’s novel series by Dav Pilkey, is fully loaded to be an onslaught on a kid’s funny bone but also not so immature that an adult can’t find it funny, too. It also doesn’t try overly hard to put something in there for adults but rather focuses on being smarter in its juvenile humor to offer itself as an opportunity for adults to remember what it was like to be a kid and get lost in the friendship of George and Harold.
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The June box office will likely cash in on Wonder Woman, Transformers: The Last Knight and Despicable Me 3 but it is Baby Driver that has MHT excited. There’s a total of 32 movies due to come out in some capacity in June and here are the trailers for all of them as well as what MHT is most (and least) excited for:Read More →