About the film (courtesy of Universal Pictures): M3GAN is a marvel of artificial intelligence, a life-like doll programmed to be a child’s greatest companion and a parent’s greatest ally. Designed by brilliant toy-company roboticist Gemma, M3GAN can listen and watch and learn as she becomes friend and teacher, playmate and protector, for the child she …
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Time for a Reel DON’T WORRY DARLING review
About the film (courtesy of Warner Bros.): Alice (Pugh) and Jack (Styles) are lucky to be living in Victory, the experimental company town housing the men who work for the top-secret Victory Project and their families. Life is perfect, with every resident’s needs met by the company. All they ask in return is unquestioning commitment …
Time for a Reel BARBARIAN review
About the film (courtesy of 20th Century Studios): A young woman traveling to Detroit for a job interview books a rental home. But when she arrives late at night, she discovers that the house is double booked, and a strange man is already staying there. Against her better judgement, she decides to spend the evening, …
Time for a Reel FALL review
About the film (courtesy of Lionsgate): For best friends Becky (Grace Caroline Currey) and Hunter (Virginia Gardner), life is all about conquering fears and pushing limits. But after they climb 2,000 feet to the top of a remote, abandoned radio tower, they find themselves stranded with no way down. Now Becky and Hunter’s expert climbing …
Time for a Reel BULLET TRAIN review
About the film (courtesy of Sony Pictures Entertainment): Brad Pitt stars as Ladybug, an unlucky assassin determined to do his job peacefully after one too many gigs gone off the rails. Fate, however, may have other plans, as Ladybug’s latest mission puts him on a collision course with lethal adversaries from around the globe—all with …
Time for a Reel VENGEANCE review
About the film (courtesy of Focus Features): This is a darkly comic thriller about Ben Manalowitz (B.J. Novak), a journalist and podcaster who travels from New York City to West Texas to investigate the death of a girl he was hooking up with. I enjoy the big flashy film productions as much as the next …
Time for a Reel WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING review
About the film (courtesy of Sony Pictures Entertainment): This is the story of Kya, an abandoned girl who raised herself to adulthood in the dangerous marshlands of North Carolina. For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” haunted Barkley Cove, isolating the sharp and resilient Kya from her community. Drawn to two young men from town, …
Time for a Reel SCREAM review
About the film (courtesy of Paramount Pictures): Twenty-five years after a streak of brutal murders shocked the quiet town of Woodsboro, a new killer has donned the Ghostface mask and begins targeting a group of teenagers to resurrect secrets from the town’s deadly past. Let’s get this out of the way since I’ve been stewing …
Time for a Reel THE 355 review
About the film (courtesy of Universal Studios): A dream team of formidable female stars come together in a hard-driving original approach to the globe-trotting espionage genre The 355. When a top-secret weapon falls into mercenary hands, wild card CIA agent Mason “Mace” Brown (Jessica Chastain) will need to join forces with rival badass German agent …
Time for a Reel NIGHTMARE ALLEY review
About the film (courtesy of Searchlight Pictures): An ambitious carny (Bradley Cooper) with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychiatrist (Cate Blanchett) who is even more dangerous than he is. Bradley Cooper first game onto my radar when he played a meek reporter in J.J. Abrams’ …