Category: Movie Review
The Sheep Detective | Movie Review
by Ted Giese The Sheep Detectives (2026) Director: Kyle Balda Writers: Craig Mazin (screenplay), Leonie Swann (novel) Stars: Hugh Jackman, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Bryan Cranston, Nicholas Braun, Nicholas Galitzine, Molly Gordon, Tosin Cole, Hong Chau, Emma Thompson, Chris O’Dowd, Regina Hall, Patrick Stewart, Bella Ramsey, Brett…
Gladiator II – Retrograde Heroism: From Virtue to Vice
by Ted Giese Gladiator II is set about around the year 200 A.D., around twenty years after the events of 2000’s Gladiator. Director Ridley Scott again gives audiences a man with a secret past and a dead wife travelling on a grief-stricken path of vengeance…
Joker: Folie à Deux: “A Clown with His Pants Falling Down”
by Ted Giese Imprisoned in Gotham’s dismal Arkham Asylum for the criminally insane, Arthur Fleck awaits trial for multiple counts of murder. There, in a music program in the minimum security wing, Fleck meets Harleen ‘Lee’ Quinzel. The disturbed Fleck and psychotic Quinzel fall into…
In Review: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
by Ted Giese As advanced apes struggle to live together, an unexpected human, Mae, seeks access to an item she believes can give humankind a critical advantage against apes in a bid to regain control over the earth. The fourth film in the modern Planet…
Civil War: A Measured Warning
by Ted Giese In the not-too-distant future, the states of California and Texas succeed from the union and wage a civil war against the United States government and a beleaguered America. This is the setting of the film Civil War. No back story is provided…
In Review: Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
by Ted Giese Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire picks up two years after Ghostbusters: Afterlife (the true sequel to the 1980s films, sidestepping the divisive 2016 reboot Ghostbusters: Answer the Call). The Spenglers have moved from the farm in rural Oklahoma and fully embraced ghostbusting. As the…
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