Review – Black Widow (2021)

by Kevin Muller

The essence of family seems to be creeping into big budget films lately. There have been countless memes connecting the word to the Fast and the Furious franchise. Those specific ones are hilarious since, what once was a sincere part of those films, has now become a punchline. In Marvel’s Black Widow, it is used to reduce to coldness of the title character, who was trained to be a heartless killing machine. Does it work? Are people in for a treat after waiting two years for Marvel’s new entry?

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Review – Stranger Things (2016)

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by Henry Hill

The newest Netflix Original series Stranger Things is a terrific throwback to the Spielberg movies of the ‘80s. Think Goonies meets E.T. Meets John Carpenter’s The Thing. Featuring a Carpenter-esque theme song and score, Stranger Things is full of horror, mystery, drama and most of all, fun. It is full of fun easter eggs that will have viewers pausing and rewinding to see what they can spot in the background. Posters for films like Jaws and The Evil Dead hang on the walls in the kids bedrooms and The Clash’s hit 1982 song “Should I Stay or Should I Go” is played on the record player. Needless to say, after five episodes I am hooked.

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