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Continue reading →: Review: ‘Mission: Impossible- The Final Reckoning’ is as big a finale as Cruise can deliver, for better (and slightly for worse)Tom Cruise, a man who more likely is made of steel and adrenaline than bones and blood, has made it his mission for the last 30 years to be the king of movies, putting his body through endurance tests that could destroy the strongest and fastest creatures on earth. It’s…
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Continue reading →: Review: ‘Final Destination: Bloodlines’ Knows Exactly What It Is and Doubles DownThe Final Destination franchise, originally the spawn of an X-Files spec script, has historically been both ridiculed in the critic community and beloved in the horror community. As independent online journalism and film criticism have collided more and more in the last decade, as well as once-young teens howling at…
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Continue reading →: 2024: Personal AwardsYes, yes, yes. It’s May of 2025 and we’ve moved on from last year. I’ve even shared these nominations on social media, but I would like to start this and work my way backwards as just a fun feature on this blog. I’ve been pretty adamant about catching up with…
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Continue reading →: Review: ‘Thunderbolts*’ is Not to be Underestimated as Typical MCU Fair36 movies into a franchise seems a bit much, right? For about 2/3 of its run, the Marvel Studios machine has been coasting on success after success, mildly switching tones and genres, but rarely straying from the same gloss and shine storytelling it began with. The last few years post-Avengers:…
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Continue reading →: Review: ‘Sinners’ allows Coogler pure, bloody creative freedomIt’s impossible to discuss the plot of Ryan Coogler’s new original thriller Sinners without digging into, at least, the specific entity that causes the conflict: vampires. Yes, this was made clear in the original announcement of the film’s production, it was made clear in the advertising (and not even remotely…
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Continue reading →: Review: ‘Warfare’ is unrelentingly bleak, tense horror“The horror…” We can only imagine what Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now had experienced through his unforgettable monologue. Directors Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza want to give you a front row seat to it. Based on Mendoza’s own memories, and the memories of his Navy Seal squad in 2006, of…
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Continue reading →: Review: ‘Drop’ is pure, fun nonsenseAs we continue to approach the impending future where technology takes over our everyday lives, in the moment, tech-based horror stories are all the rage, intending on warning us of the dangerous side effects to technology dependency. There’s even a new season of Black Mirror that just dropped at the…
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Continue reading →: The Films of 2025: Quarter 1 in Review (Top 5 Best and Bottom 5 Worst, Best Performances)Oscar season has finally passed, clearing the air for new films to introduce themselves to the world and hope to stay alive in the conversation throughout the year and beyond. Typically, three months into the year, you’re lucky to get one major film that stands out, but with studios less…
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Continue reading →: Review: ‘Black Bag’ is the pseudo-60s spy thriller we’ve desperately neededSteven Soderbergh announced retirement nearly a decade ago and ever since, he’s been the most creatively charged he’s been in decades, pumping out interesting idea after interesting idea, sometimes twice a year, and adding a surplus of fresh titles to his gargantuan filmography. His newest, Black Bag, may be the…
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Continue reading →: Final 97th Oscars Winner PredictionsWe’re finally here in the homestretch! Now, I was going to write a whole piece, but truthfully, all of this is going off of gut feeling and prior precursor obviousness. What I’ll say is I spent weeks battling with myself over the categories of Best Actress, Best Documentary Feature, Best…
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EDITOR, SITE WRITER
Jakob Kolness
Minnesota Film Critics Association Member. Graduate of Film Studies, writer, novelist, filmmaker.
CURRENT 2026 OSCAR PREDICTIONS
“Bugonia”
“F1”
“Frankenstein”
“Hamnet”
“Marty Supreme”
“One Battle After Another”**
“The Secret Agent”
“Sentimental Value”
“Sinners”
“Train Dreams”
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