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Wicked for Good, mostly.
Rating: ★★★★☆ The year-long intermission is finally over, and director Jon M. Chu has returned to finish what he started with Wicked: For Good . If the 2024 predecessor was the candy-coloured, effervescent setup, this 2025 conclusion is the emotional payload—a darker, richer, and almost satisfying finale, despite a few pacing wobbles along the Yellow Brick Road. When Universal announced Wicked would be split into two films, skepticism ran high. Could the second act of the sta

Denise Breen
11 hours ago2 min read


Predator: Badlands continues the revival started by Prey with this "buddy movie"
4 out of 5 The Predator franchise, much like its titular hunters, has historically stalked the cinematic landscape with stealthy, inconsistent intent. For decades, the series struggled to replicate the primal, sweaty tension of the 1987 original with Arnold Scharzenegger. Then came Dan Trachtenberg’s 2022 masterpiece, Prey , which achieved the seemingly impossible: it stripped away the noise, relocated the hunt to the raw American wilderness of 1719, and delivered a survival

Denise Breen
Nov 216 min read


A Masterpiece Reborn: Guillermo del Toro's "Frankenstein" is a gothic triumph
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ As a teenager, Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus" was one of the first classics I read. I loved it. I devoured it. But I was always disappointed in the various adaptations of the original book. Now we have a new take streaming on Netflix. Guillermo del Toro has always understood the inherent tragedy in the monstrous. His "Pan's Labyrinth" remains one of my all-time favourites and "The Shape of Water" a consummate tale of horror and love. His

Denise Breen
Nov 162 min read
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