Movie Review: Spider-Man: Brand New Day (Minor Spoilers)
by G.E. Uke, Reporter I recently had the pleasure of seeing an early press screening of Spider-Man: Brand New Day, and after a full night of rolling around on the floor in a post-ComicCon nerd daze, I’ve managed to master…
Movie Review: The Odyssey
by G.E. Uke, Reporter When I heard that Christopher Nolan was producing The Odyssey, I knew it would be something special. He loves to use flashbacks, massive cinematic effects, and heavy intellectual themes in everything he makes. And Nolan absolutely…
Movie Review: Moana (2026)
by G.E. Uke, Reporter The story of Moana is well known by now. The animated movie came out a decade ago, and earned its place as one of Disney’s most iconic and successful IPs in the last 30 years. This…
Movie Review: Supergirl
by G.E. Uke, Reporter DC has had a hard time coming out with consistently good movies for a while now. This is not to be contested. There were a few hidden gems here and there, but the overall quality of…
Movie Review: The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
by G. E. Uke, Reporter, Video game movies and TV shows are getting a lot of traction these days. This wasn’t the case until fairly recently. Before we had shows like Castlevania on Netflix, Fallout on Amazon Prime, or The…
Movie Review: Now You See Me: Now You Don’t
by G.E. Uke, Reporter, I am one of those unfortunate people who “missed” the first two Now You See Me movies. And this is a pity, because they belong to that special genre of “heist” films that only come out…
Movie Review: Ballerina
by G. E. Uke, Reporter When John Wick’s story ended with the fourth movie…I was pretty heartbroken. Not just because I loved those movies and the world they created, but because I feared that there would be no more of…
Movie Review: Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning
by G. E. Uke, Reporter, Tom Cruise is getting on in years. This isn’t a bad thing, considering we all do it eventually. But at the ripe old age of sixty two, there are limits to the daredevil shenanigans he…
Movie Review: A Minecraft Movie
by G. E. Uke, Reporter Certain subjects and intellectual properties are hard to represent in mainstream media because they have a large diverse fanbase. If you get anything wrong at all, you run the risk of fan backlash. While there…
Movie Review: A Working Man
by G. E. Uke, Reporter Jason Statham has created so many macho kung fu movies over the years that you can immediately get a sense of the movie’s tone if you see he’s in it. As an actor, he’s reached…
Movie Review: Death of a Unicorn
by G. E. Uke, Reporter, Walking into Death of a Unicorn, I expected an absurd monster movie like Cocaine Bear or Under Paris. I thought the premise that unicorns were horrible monsters instead of gentle angelic creatures didn’t leave a…
Movie Review: Mickey 17
by G. E. Uke, Reporter Most movies these days try to impart a moral lesson, or at least provoke the viewer to think about important life issues. Some do it better than others. At the low end of the spectrum…
Movie Review: Sonic the Hedgehog 3
by G. E. Uke, Reporter Sonic the Hedgehog is one of those wacky characters from the early video game era that somehow went mainstream, despite making very little sense. People decided to build on his lore with comics, cartoons, and…
Movie Review: Kraven the Hunter
by G. E. Uke, Reporter Walking into Kraven the Hunter, I found myself not expecting much. Sony has a poor track record for Spider-Man spinoffs, and for those who know the lore behind this character…it’s a tall order to make…
Movie Review: Gladiator II
Let me begin this review by saying that Gladiator II is a DIRECT sequel to the first movie. It includes many of the same characters, references the events of the previous movie directly, and shows the aftermath of General Maximus’ death attempting to restore democracy to Rome. Ridley Scott does a brilliant job spinning a romantic narrative of power, corruption, and the very real struggle of idealism in the face of nihilistic apathy and greed. The one thing I applaud this movie for above everything else (and there is much to applaud), is its dedication to that ideal. Gladiator II is “ABOUT” something, even when things get weird or require a healthy dose of suspension of disbelief. And in my eyes that means it can get away with a lot.