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Fire of Love was one of two documentaries released in 2022 about the (R.I.P.) late volcanologist couple, Katia and Maurice Krafft, who died in 1991 while pursuing their passion. The other, by the legendary German filmmaker, Werner Herzog, bears th...

Firestarter, one of Stephen King’s most recognizable titles, reached bookstores in 1980 and was subsequently nominated for several prestigious awards. However, as has often been the case with King’s novels, the movie regurgitation, released in...

Spoiler Alert: When it comes to a movie like “Fresh,” there’s a legitimate question of what constitutes a spoiler. A lot of it depends on how much a reader knows about the film prior to reading the review. Anyone who has been paying atte...

Having recently given up one franchise (the James Bond one), Daniel Craig wasted no time jumping feet-first into another. Although Rian Johnson’s Knives Out, which introduced Craig as super-sleuth Benoit Blanc, arrived in theaters in advance of ...

There’s a reason I’m dubious about using Airbnb for renting a vacation home – it’s because I’ve seen too many horror/thrillers where a double-booking leads to a double-bonking. (Although I have heard there’s also a rom-com out there us...

Good Luck to You, Leo Grande is all about sex. There are no two ways around it – from start to finish, this is about what happens (and doesn’t happen) between the sheets (or on them, or on the carpet, or…). It’s about blowjobs and orgasms....

The Good Nurse is what it appears to be: yet another of those true crime movies that Netflix churns out with regularity. The only difference between this and another of the limitless similar films in the streaming giant’s library is that this on...

Another Netflix would-be blockbuster, another disappointment. According to reports, The Gray Man cost the streaming company close to $200M, which puts it alongside Red Notice as having an MCU-sized budget. Unlike most MCU films, however, The Gray ...

The mention of Pinocchio generally stirs up memories of the 1940 Disney animated feature, which (at the time) was the greatly anticipated follow-up to 1937’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. Today, Disney’s Pinocchio is regarded as one of the...

If one discounts Halloween III, it has taken twelve movies, four timelines, and nearly 45 years to get to this point. If there was such at thing as “truth in advertising” in movie titles, this would be the last bow of one of movie-dom’s long...