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The New Hunger Games Worked for Me Until It Didn’t
When the Olivia Rodrigo song began and the credits started rolling, I couldn’t help but scratch my head. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is now in theaters and as a fan of the original films, months and months of trailers had me suitably excited to check it out. But after almost…
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In Roland Emmerich’s Moonfall, the Moon Is Cosmically Pissed Off
Sorry, world. America screwed it up for everyone. In 1969 the U.S. claimed to have put the first humans on the moon — but apparently that was only part of the story. Turns out the astronauts found something there, pissed it off, and now the moon is coming to get us. So yeah. That’s our…
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Moonfall Looks Like Roland Emmerich’s Loudest, Dumbest Disaster Movie Yet
Some men just want to watch the world burn. Or tear itself to pieces. Or explode several million times. One of those men is director Roland Emmerich, whose career mainly consists of disaster movies both large (Independence Day, 2012, The Day After Tomorrow) and small (Midway, White House Down, the godawful 1998 U.S. Godzilla movie).…
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The New Ad Astra Trailer Amps Up Brad Pitt’s Space Angst
As Brad Pitt’s Major Roy McBride ventures into deep space in James Grey’s upcoming space thriller Ad Astra, the famed legacy astronaut’s mind is pushed to its limits both by the unknowable darkness he literally finds himself surrounded by and the metaphorical darkness about his father’s past actions that might have jeopardised all life in…