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3 Ninjas Kick Back: They Kicked the Plot Back to the Writer’s Room, Then Burned the Room Down

Ben Dover November 8, 2025 No Comments

From Suburbia to Samurai: The Tum-Tum Trilogy Continues with an All-Expenses-Paid Trip to Tokyo They’re back! Rocky, Colt, and the human stomach Tum-Tum return in 3 Ninjas Kick Back, a…

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3 Ninjas – What if Home Alone met The Karate Kid and then immediately suffered a crippling head injury

Ben Dover November 8, 2025 No Comments

3 Ninjas, a movie that answers the question, “What if Home Alone met The Karate Kid and then immediately suffered a crippling head injury?” Meet the three Douglas brothers—Rocky, Colt,…

Drama Thriller

The Lighthouse (2019): A Dark & Stormy Naptime

Ben Dover November 1, 2025 No Comments

Get ready for a movie experience that’s less a film and more a two-hour-long, black-and-white therapy session for men who smell of brine and regret. The Lighthouse takes us back…

Comedy Horror

Idle Hands (1999) – Will the youth of today finally get off the couch to defeat a demonic force, or will they just smoke more oregano?

Ben Dover October 25, 2025 No Comments

Teen Slackers Learn a Lesson in Homicidal Hilarity in Idle Hands This weekend, prepare for a cinematic experience that proves the old adage: the Devil really does make work for…

Comedy Family Kids Sports

The Mighty Ducks (1992)

Ben Dover October 14, 2025 No Comments

An Ice-Cold Reminder of the ’90s, Where Convicted Drunk Drivers Get to Mold Our Youth… or… How a Quack Echoed Across the Ice? In the age of endless remakes and…

Drama Horror Sci-Fi

The Butterfly Effect 3: The third time is absolutely not the charm

Ben Dover October 9, 2025 No Comments

Another Day, Another Dimension This week, we’re dragged back into the mind-bending, rule-breaking world of time travel with The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations. No, it’s not a good sign when…

Drama Sci-Fi

The Butterfly Effect 2: Some Sequels do NOT need to be made

Ben Dover October 9, 2025 No Comments

Oh, for crying out loud. Another direct-to-video sequel. Do these Hollywood muckety-mucks think we were born yesterday? They take a moderately clever, mildly successful flick from a couple of years…

Drama Sci-Fi

The Butterfly Effect (2004)

Ben Dover October 8, 2025 No Comments

You’d think Hollywood would run out of ways to mess with time, but here we are again with The Butterfly Effect, a so-called “science fiction thriller” starring Ashton Kutcher. Yes,…

Comedy Horror

Death of a Unicorn – NOT your daughter’s Unicorn’s

Ben Dover October 4, 2025 No Comments

This week, Hollywood serves up another “eat-the-rich” horror-comedy—because we haven’t seen enough of those lately—with Death of a Unicorn. It’s a tale as old as time: a working stiff trying…

Fantasy

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

Ben Dover September 24, 2025 No Comments

The Return of the King: More Walking, More Crying, More of Everything Just when you thought it was safe to go home, as if the first one wasn’t long enough,…

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Drama

Braveheart (1995) – Come for the historical inaccuracy, stay for the Testosterone.

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Send Help (2026) – The ultimate corporate downsizing, now with 100% more flying blood!

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211 (2018) – See Nic Cage battle mercenaries, bad effects, and a whiny teenager!

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Sunshine (2007) – It Burns!

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