Can Jeremy Allen White step into the shoes of the Boss in Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere? Even with additional modernizing layers, Hedda feels stuck on the boards. Nobody Wants This season 2 is fun but it feels like the show is starting to run its course.
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Jeremy Allen White tries to step into the shoes of The Boss in Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere. Rose Byrne gives a brilliant and stress inducing performance in If I Had Legs I'd Kick You.
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We figure out how to elevate Good Fortune to great with some casting tweaks, and praise the specificity of If I Had Legs I'd Kick You but also have some warnings about emotional bandwidth.
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Keanu Reeves gives a divine performance in the new comedy Good Fortune, but is the film as a whole a slam dunk?
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The theme of the week is apparently: stars in their 50s who look great but were probably miscast. We're talking Jared Leto in TRON: Ares and Jennifer Lopez in the latest adaptation of Kiss of the Spider Woman.
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TRON: Ares is gobbledygook that fails to add anything meaningful to the franchise (except maybe a great soundtrack). Roofman is a criminally fun tie at the movies (but more fluff than anything else). Kiss of the Spider Woman gets bogged down in its own attempted grandeur. Boots is a brilliant balance of themes and tones.
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This week brings three projects based on true stories that all slightly miss the mark in various ways they go about telling them. We're breaking down:The Smashing Machine, The Lost Bus, and Monster: The Ed Gein Story .
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The Smashing Machine is a slightly disjointed but overall serviceable sports biopic. The Lost Bus succeeds at the macro storytelling but goes astray in the purported main conceit.
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One Battle After Another might be Paul Thomas Anderson's most accessible work yet. Alien: Earth was a crash landing of a finale. All of You didn't quite get all of us.
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An action packed special episode 600 with director Kenji Tanigaki for his relentless and entertaining thriller, The Furious.
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In a small Southeast Asian country, skilled martial artist Wang Wei’s daughter Rainy is abducted by a child trafficking ring. Wang Wei sets out on a rampage, confronting both the corrupt police and the criminals, determined to rescue his kidnapped daughter. In the process, he encounters Navin, a journalist tirelessly trying to solve his wife’s disappearance. Together, the two unleash their formidable combat skills, fighting their way through dangerous obstacles and manage to unravel crucial clues and successfully rescue Rainy and a group of innocent children, dismantling the notorious human trafficking syndicate and bringing justice to the exploited and vulnerable.
More about Kenji Tanigaki
Kenji Tanigaki is a Japanese director, action director, and fight choreographer. From a young age, he was captivated by action cinema and was particularly influenced by Hong Kong films. After training at the Kurata Action Club in Japan, he moved to Hong Kong to pursue his career.
He became the only Japanese member of the Hong Kong Stuntman Association and gained early experience working on the martial arts drama series "Fist of Fury" (produced by ATV), where he met Donnie Yen. This led to numerous collaborations on Donnie’s projects, further honing his craft.
Tanigaki’s long-standing expertise in action choreography has been widely recognized. He won the Taiwan Golden Horse Award for HIDDEN MAN in 2018, and the Hong Kong Film Award for both RAGING FIRE in 2021 and TWILIGHT OF THE WARRIORS: WALLED IN in 2024. His notable credits include the RUROUNI KENSHIN series (2012–2021), SNAKE EYES: G.I. JOE ORIGINS (2021), and his directorial debut feature ENTER THE FAT DRAGON (2020).
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Paul Thomas Anderson is in fighting form with One Battle After Another. Brett Goldstein brings the romance to All of You. Eleanor the Great is anything but impressive.
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We're not mad, we're just disappointed about HIM's inability to commit to a theme. And even our favorite weirdo, Dan Stevens, can't save Swiped from its banality.
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Unfortunately HIM has a great premise but spirals out in the end. Gen V does not suffer from a sophomore slump. We're swiping left on the Bumble / Tinder cofounder biopic Swiped. Rebel Royals: An Unlikely Love Story is borderline propaganda for the subjects but a fascinating watch.
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Stephen King's The Long Walk proves as timely a film adaptation as there could be. Also two films made as (perhaps unnecessary) fan service with Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale and Spinal Tap 2: The End Continues
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We're seeing double with Twinless and triple with The Threesome. Can The Paper cement itself as more than just a spinoff of The Office?
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A pair of adaptations is up for review this week, both with all star casts: The Roses and The Thursday Murder Club.
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Brian Volk-Weiss is here to chat about The Toys that Made Us as a form of business school, the future of the NacelleVerse, and of course Star Trek.
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Peacemaker is back but trying to break our multiversal brains. Alien: Earth already has us worried about an action overload.
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A jam packed week (for better and for mostly worse) with the animated epic Ne Zha 2, the Margaret Qualley led Honey Don't, Ron Howard's the trouble in paradise catastrophe - Eden, the crime thriller Eenie Meanie, and finally the brilliant and heartfelt Long Story Short.
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We're diving into all things Xenomorph and all things synthetics / hybrids / cyborgs with Noah Hawley's Alien: Earth and trying to map where it will fit in the greater lore.
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