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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) Review

OF DARKNESS, MADNESS, AND MULTIVERSE STRANGENESS   In 2016, Marvel Studios released Doctor Strange, the fourteenth installment in the shared cinematic universe of comic book superheroes and opened up the doorways to the mystic arts of magic and sorcery into the MCU. Directed by Scott Derrickson, the film, which starred Benedict Cumberbatch, Rachel McAdams, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Mads Mikkelsen, and Tilda

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Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) Review

INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE   Back in 2017, Spider-Man: Homecoming was definitely a fun and entertaining way for the comic book character of Peter Parker (aka Spider-Man) to star in his own standalone feature film within the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Of course, this wasn’t the first time that Spider-Man (played by actor Tom Holland) graced the screen as he debuted back in Captain

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The Courier (2021) Review

A RESPECTABLE (YET FAMILIAR) ESPIONAGE DRAMA   History has recounted the events of the Cold War as a geopolitical between the Soviet Union and the United States and their respectable allies. Taking place after the events of World War II and beginning (more or less) from the Truman Doctrine in 1947 to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991,

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The Mauritanian (2021) Review

A HARD-HITTING (YET MEANINGFUL) POLITICAL LEGAL DRAMA   As many theatrical feature film endeavors have delved into fictional arena to find its narrative storytelling, others have taken strides into the more “real world”, with various accounts (albeit through a cinematic filmmaking lens) of depicting / examining lives and events of world and how sometimes the truth (the real truth) comes

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The Grinch (2018) Review

A CHARMING, MODERN RETELLING OF A HOLIDAY CLASSIC   The stories and books of Dr. Seuss have enchanted readers around the world, seeing multiple generations enjoying the imaginative worlds that Seuss created and of its playful rhyming tales and colorful characters. Of the plethora of books that have been published by him, none is more famously known that Dr. Seuss’s

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