This week, it’s double the Cinema, double the Vino. We present you with two Star Wars pods.
Todd Wofford
The Rise of Skywalker knows all the proper ingredients to use. It just doesn’t know when to stop pouring them into the vat.
I’ll just go ahead and join the cat-cophony: The decision to slather Cats in creepy CGI hobbles it right out of the gate.
6 Underground continues the eternal battle, wherein Michael Bay pits sound and fury against mind and spirit. There can be no doubt who will win in the end: After 128 minutes of relentless pummeling, my brain resembled that pink slime they use to make McNuggets. Dizzying but never dazzling, frantic but never exciting, 6 Underground squanders the…
While Jumanji: The Next Level hits a lot of the same high notes as its surprisingly tolerable predecessor, it also feels overlong, mechanical, and contrived.
I’ve seen it twice now, and the second swirl and sniff really opens the bouquet of just how pungent this monsterpiece really is.
When it comes to ratings, sequels like Frozen II present a unique conundrum: This movie treads the same trodden path that showered its predecessor with box office billions, but it does that with meticulous skill and self-confidence. It also feels strangely disposable, like those plastic cameras they used to hand out at wedding receptions. So...do we dock…
For this week’s episode of Cinemavino, Sean Jordan joins us as we drink some delicious red wine and discuss Chapter Five of The Mandalorian
Brittany Runs a Marathon wasn't made by Judd Apatow, but it has a lot of the same look and feel: Its titular heroine lives somewhere between always being drunk and always being hungover. She scarfs down junk food and scoffs at any loser who dares to do any kind of actual adulting. Like her spiritual…
