Five Nights at Freddy's
SimilarA Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), BloodRayne: The Third Reich (2010), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992), Dawn of the Dead (2004), Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990), Jennifer's Body (2009), Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004), Resident Evil: Vendetta (2017), Silent Hill (2006), Snakes on a Plane (2006), The Shining (1980), The Sixth Sense (1999), The X Files: I Want to Believe (2008), Wild Things (1998),
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Barbie (2023) Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023),
Oppenheimer (2023) Saw X (2023), The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023), The Marvels (2023),
StudioBlumhouse Productions,
I have never played Five Nights at Freddy’s. I need to make that abundantly clear before proceeding with this review. Continue Reading →
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
SimilarAlex Strangelove (2018), Billy Elliot (2000), Bring It On (2000), Dazed and Confused (1993), Enchanted (2007), Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), Grease (1978), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005), Nowhere (1997), Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006), Twilight (2008),
StarringColman Domingo, Sam Richardson,
Studiodentsu,
It’s not easy being a teenager. It’s especially not easy being a teenager like the titular protagonist of Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken. As that title would suggest, Ruby Gillman (Lana Condor) is a Kraken living in a seaside town with her family. Her parents and younger brother seem to have no trouble assimilating to the broader world, while Ruby struggles. All she wants is to blend in as a normal human-- albeit one with blue skin and no spine. However, to be an average teen, she’ll likely have to break some of her mom’s strict rules, namely, never going near the ocean. Continue Reading →
To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb
SimilarSissi: The Fateful Years of an Empress (1957),
To The End opens with activist Varshini Prakash, leader of The Sunrise Movement, as she tours the destruction left in a wildfire’s wake. A bleak landscape meets her. There are houses burned and left in ruin. A car drives into the area, flames licking at the road as smoke covers the terrain. It’s a hell of a stirring beginning to Rachel Lears’ timely and extensive climate change documentary To The End. Continue Reading →