Road House (2024) Movie Review
The remake of Road House is the movie version of the Ryan Reynolds “But why?” gif. From its first scene to its last, this movie will constantly perplex anyone who’s seen the 1989 original starring Patrick Swayze and Sam Elliott.
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The Gentlemen (Season One, 2024) Mini TV Review
Despite being a spin-off rather than a sequel - as I would’ve preferred - to Guy Ritchie’s popular 2019 film The Gentlemen, Netflix’s series of the same name still intrigued me for a multitude of reasons. My primary curiosity was
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Revisiting the 95th Academy Awards One Year Later | AJP #15
With the 96th Academy Awards airing tonight (March 10), we thought we'd jump back a year and revisit the 95th edition. After all, it ended up being largely a one-movie show, with Everything Everywhere All at Once nearly sweeping the
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Monsieur Spade (Limited Series, 2024) Mini TV Review
While True Detective: Night Country was getting all of the headlines and social media mentions, AMC+ had a murder-mystery show of its own running concurrently and under the radar. Created by Scott Frank and Tom Fontana, Monsieur Spade is a
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True Detective: Night Country (2024) TV Review
I was hoping to maintain my gaze on True: Detective Night Country in this review, but seeing as seemingly everyone else has already had a say, I thought I’d offer my observations via a different prism. If you haven’t heard,
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Echo 3 Goes Weapons Free on Apple TV | AJP #14
When it was announced that Mark Boal, the award-winning writer of films like The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty, was creating a show for Apple TV+, we were incredibly excited and knew we had to cover it here on
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A couple of weeks ago, I went and saw Michael Mann’s first movie in nearly nine years, Ferrari. Prior to that film, the last one Mann had directed was Blackhat,... Read More
Making a so-bad-it’s-good action movie isn’t rocket science. For starters, you have to find a screenplay that’s simple but intelligible, and most importantly, that leans into the bombast with humor... Read More
Words cannot adequately describe how ecstatic I was to watch Ferrari, the first film in eight years from my favorite filmmaker, Michael Mann. Yet, I knew going in that this... Read More
I pressed play on the first episode of Slow Horses’ third season before the person whom I was with could see what we were watching. What followed were ten minutes... Read More
I’m in the midst of a disheartening streak. The last three movies I’ve reviewed have been, to varying degrees, pretty disappointing. That’s because each one was directed by a renowned... Read More
Written and directed by Academy Award-winner Brian Helgeland, Finestkind is the latest in a long line of crime dramas by the veteran filmmaker. This is the guy who penned L.A.... Read More