“War of the Worlds” (2025) Review
Screenlife might not be the best genre for adapting H. G. Wells’s classic sci-fi story, The War of the Worlds. This fascinating story of an alien invasion highlighted the grotesqueness
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“The Naked Gun” (2025) Review
The Naked Gun movies have always been like a machine gun of jokes, firing a perpetual spread of visual gags and silly dialogue for the highest amount of laughs per
“The Fantastic Four: First Steps” Review
The Fantastic Four hasn’t had the best track record with movies, but the fourth time (or fifth if you count the unreleased Roger Corman film) is the charm. First Steps
“Sorry, Baby” Review
As the directorial debut of Eva Victor, Sorry, Baby effortlessly navigates the minefield of staging a dramedy around rape and power dynamics. Terrible things happen to the unfortunate Agnes (played
“I Know What You Did Last Summer” (2025) Review
“Nostalgia is overrated,” states the returning Jennifer Love Hewitt during the climax. I agree with her, but I don’t think this clumsy legacy sequel to I Know What You Did
“On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” Review
There’s a quiet absurdity to how death and trauma are treated in On Becoming a Guinea Fowl. As the film begins, Uncle Fred is dead. He doesn’t die surrounded by
“Superman” (2025) Review
While James Gunn’s work on recent DC Comics projects like The Suicide Squad and Peacemaker was loaded with a refreshing divergence of misfit anti-heroes, they still had heart. Gunn’s take
“Heads of State” Review
John Cena and Idris Elba showcased great comedic chemistry in The Suicide Squad, and some of that energy carries into Heads of State, a good-but-not-great action vehicle. The duo is
“Jurassic World Rebirth” Review
Jurassic World Rebirth shares less in common with Jurassic Park and more DNA with the Godzilla movies, with intoxicating monsters and uninteresting humans. Part of the charm that kept me
“M3GAN 2.0” Review
The sequel to the tongue-in-cheek sci-fi/horror M3GAN feels less like an expansion of the story and more of a stress test for the titular terror. The acid-spitting killer AI of