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Review: Based on Familiar Young-Adult Dystopian Tropes, Uglies Fails to Give the Genre a Makeover

For a young-adult story, the concept of Uglies is certainly intriguing, if somewhat familiar: in a post-scarcity dystopian future, everyone is considered an “ugly,” and the powers-that-be decide that if […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • September 13, 2024
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Nicole Kidman and Zac Efron Fail the RomCom Spark Test in Otherwise Charming, Clever A Family Affair

    It would seem the romcom is having a moment. Not that it’s ever really gone away, of course. But in the post-Nancy Meyers era (she’s still very much alive, just […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • June 28, 2024
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Bullet Train Speeds By With Chaotic Action and Brad Pitt’s Under-Utilized Comedic Wit

    Did you ever have a friend who took one semester of Intro to Psychology and immediately started analyzing themselves and your lives like they wrote the damn textbook? So, that’s […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • August 2, 2022
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: The Worthy True Story of Radium Girls Gets Lost In One-Dimensional Characters and Unclear Stakes

    Radium Girls

    Something I’m seeing more and more of as the pandemic continues to make it impossible or unlikely for an array of new movies to open in physical theaters are films […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • October 20, 2020
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Icy Drama The Lie and Twisted Sci-Fi Black Box Kick Off Amazon Prime and Blumhouse Horror Film Quartet

    The Lie

    During the month of October, Amazon Prime Video will release a quartet of films from Blumhouse Television and Amazon Studios. They’re being promoted as horror films, but the first two […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • October 6, 2020
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