Movie Review: The Uprising
The Uprising wins the most frustrating Almost Award of 2026. I see Paul Greengrass’s enthusiasm for the story, and even the bevy of themes and …
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Movie Review: Hope (2026)
Picture you’re at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival. Movie prestige incarnate. You’re excited to attend your latest in competition screening with other bourgeois French cinephiles. …
Movie Review: Mayday
Mayday is a lot of fun, which makes me a little sad. I would have gladly gone to the movie theater to watch this action …
Movie Review: The Samurai and the Prisoner
Kiyoshi Kurosawa must have been feeling his last namesake calling. He’s not related to Akira Kurosawa, but he’s got similar gifts as the legendary director. …
Movie Review: The Odyssey
An annual tradition for my family was watching The Ten Commandments on Easter Saturday night. Usually I’m laughing at the distracting blood curdling shrieks during …
Movie Review: Pressure
Oh man, you can feel the Pressure in Hollywood with this one. World War II movies are the “old reliable,” a perfect movie making machine …
Movie Review: Desert Warrior
To know is to understand. Each culture across the planet has so much world history they possess, that not enough people know about. I know …
Movie Review: Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man
British IP holders are the best. When they could so clearly cash in more and more shallow, condescending ways. The controllers always pivot and evolve …
Movie Review: War Machine (2026)
I guess Netflix ran out of titles…and irony. Or Ted Sarandos just forgot? 2017’s War Machine was going for acid tongued satire of the military …
Movie Review: Blades of the Guardians
The best part of most early years is an international movie drop that no one was expecting, but was extremely happy to see. In my …