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Spider-Man: No Way Home Review: Diving into the Spider-Verse

I’m just going to come out and say it. Spider-Man: No Way Home is the greatest live-action Spider-Man movie of all time. Director Jon Watts delivers all the action, drama, and laughs we expect from a Spider-Man film while taking the superhero genre in a bold new direction. Spider-Man: No Way Home is a pulse-pounding …

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Extraordinary: The Revelations Review: Making Sense of UFOs and Aliens

Extraordinary: The Revelations Quicktake: Experiencers & Whistleblowers Go on the Record Extraordinary: The Revelations doesn’t waste any time diving into a high-stakes world of UFOs and alien life. According to the film, human-alien hybrids are here on earth blending into society. And this alien presence poses a threat, unlike anything humanity has ever faced. At …

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Extraordinary: The Seeding Review: Unpacking the UFO Mystery

Extraordinary: The Seeding Quicktake: Glimpsing Ufology’s Eccentric Side Anyone looking to solve the UFO mystery ends up with more questions than they started with. Or, as ufology historian Richard Dolan puts it, the more we learn about the world we’re in, the greater the mysteries. Dolan is one of the many thoughtful UFO experts featured …

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House of Gucci Review: An Ambitiously Gaudy True-Crime Saga

House of Gucci Quicktake: Committed Performances, Tonally At Odds with Itself, & Way Too Long Heading into the fall, House of Gucci was one of award season’s most buzzworthy contenders. Director Ridley Scott’s Oscar hopeful has the perfect combination of elements to grab moviegoers and awards voters’ attention. House of Gucci features a star-studded cast, …

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The Observers Review: Are We Alone Vs Who’s Here with Us?

The Observers Quicktake: Expert Interviewees, Covers Plenty of Ground, Could Use Alternative Perspectives on the Topic It’s been 80 years since UFOs invaded popular culture. And after all these decades, they’re still on our minds in a big way. UFOs and aliens appear in our most popular movies, literature, and video games. So what is …

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Ghostbusters: Afterlife Review: Reitman Recaptures the Series’ Original Vibe

Ghostbusters: Afterlife Quicktake: Delightful Cast, Witty Script, Intensely Nostalgic How strange is it that we haven’t had a proper Ghostbusters sequel since 1989? We’re up to 26 Marvel movies, and the MCU only kicked off in 2008. Since Ghostbusters II hit theatres, there have been eight Star Wars movies, ten Harry Potter titles, and three …

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Don’t Say Its Name Review: A Cold-Blooded Supernatural Slasher

Don’t Say Its Name Quicktake: Great Performances, Atmospheric, Can’t Quite Stick the Landing As a horror movie diehard, I’ll be the first to admit that the genre is wildly inconsistent. Taking a flyer on an under-the-radar film is rewarding, at times. But most often, these gambles don’t pay off, and I end up sitting through …

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The Medium Review: A Chilling Supernatural Thriller

The Medium Quicktake: Disturbing, Atmospheric, and Way Too Long   No movie this year had me all in and then all out like The Medium. As much as I enjoyed the film early on, I wanted to jump ship 90-minutes in. Banjong Pisanthanakun’s supernatural tale has plenty going for it, so I see why some …

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The McPherson Tape aka U.F.O. Abduction: A Spooky Lost Treasure

The McPherson Tape: Quicktake: Creepy, Lo-fi, Slow-Burn Horror You can’t discuss Dean Alioto’s cult classic, The McPherson Tape, aka U.F.O. Abduction, without talking about the wild story surrounding it. But first, some details about the movie. The McPherson Tape Video Review The McPherson Tape is a lean, mean found footage horror movie about an alien …

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Unidentified with Demi Lovato: Move Over Jacques Vallee, Ufology Has a New GOAT

Unidentified with Demi Lovato Quicktake: Contrived, Misleading, & Self-indulgent Demi Lovato is the greatest UFO investigator the world has ever seen. I have no clue what Stanton Friedman, J. Allen Hynek, and John Mack were doing with their careers because they left this world with more questions than answers. Not Lovato, though. In just four …

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