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Film Critic | Radio Host | Critics Choice Association | Houston Film Critics Society | Latino Entertainment Journalists Association | Rotten Tomatoes

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Emma loved animals. She was always rescuing pets. I hope to start a non-profit in her name, providing Emma's care kits to people adopting pets from the local shelters. Please keep me in your thoughts and prayers. I need strength. Thanks.

07.07.2025 14:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Emma Friar Obituary - Victoria, TX Celebrate the life of Emma Friar, leave a kind word or memory and get funeral service information care of Rosewood Funeral Chapel.

We lost our beautiful daughter Emma in an accident. She was a compassionate, loving person who always put others first. For those messaging me about donating to her funeral costs, here is a link. Keep us in your prayers.
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07.07.2025 12:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Can't wait. Love this show. Time to say goodbye.
New Trailer: bit.ly/4ld5ntg
#DowntonAbbeyTheGrandFinale

30.06.2025 15:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Can Ryan Gosling save us? 11.9 light-years from home. 6th grade science teacher. 1 chance to save us all. Watch the trailer: www.facebook.com/FlixwithJoeF...

30.06.2025 15:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Materialists has earned the Critics Choice Seal of distinction. The Critics Choice Seal of distinction is given to new movies receiving a high Critics Choice Rating score in the weekly voting by the Critics Choice Association. #materialists
Review: bit.ly/44arNFs

30.06.2025 14:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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'Ballerina’ Review: Ana de Armas plays the latest assassin driven by vengeance in the fifth film in the thrilling franchise Ana de Armas’s character Eve sucks as a ballerina, but we’re not here to watch “Swan Lake.” Her skills as a novice assassin are much better in the spinoff

The film belongs to Ana de Armas, who doesn’t need Baba Yaga to bear the burden of carrying it. The Cuban-born actress is Latina, so Ruska Roma, hold my beer.

12.06.2025 03:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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On the latest 2 MOVIE GUYS PODCAST, we discuss Ballerina, The Phoenician Scheme, Dangerous Animals, The Ritual, Predator: Killer of Killers, and I Don't Understand You. Listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Links below.
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11.06.2025 16:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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On this episode of the 2 MOVIE GUYS PODCAST, we discuss Bring Her Back, Karate Kid Legends, Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, Tornado, Sister Midnight, and Mountainhead. Listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.
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04.06.2025 18:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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‘Bring Her Back’ Review: The latest Philippou monstrosity is nightmare-inducing thanks to a wicked Sally Hawkins and a story balanced by heartache and horror Twin brothers Michael and Danny Philippou return with another shocker. The Australian filmmakers behind 2023’s “Talk to Me,” about teenagers using an

‘Bring Her Back’ Review: The latest Philippou monstrosity is nightmare-inducing thanks to a wicked Sally Hawkins and a story balanced by heartache and horror

03.06.2025 20:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Dead is just a word. #BLACKPHONE2 10/17/25

02.06.2025 01:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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‘Tornado’ Review: A teenage samurai carves a path of destruction while avenging her father’s murder in John Maclean’s first-rate British western Named after nature’s most violent storm, a rebellious sixteen-year-old carves a path of destruction across the British countryside while avenging her

‘Tornado’ Review: A teenage samurai carves a path of destruction while avenging her father’s murder in John Maclean’s first-rate British western. #tornadomovie

02.06.2025 01:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Review: Chan, Macchio, and newcomer Ben Wang make ‘Karate Kid: Legends’ a fun way to kick off the summer When you're five installments in, not to mention a successful series with 65 episodes, you have to pull out all the punches. “Karate Kid: Legends” does

Review: Chan, Macchio, and newcomer Ben Wang make ‘Karate Kid: Legends’ a fun way to kick off the summer
#KarateKidLegends

02.06.2025 00:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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30 years later, now more than ever, we must continue  to support diversity in all human beings. Welcome to Pride Month.🏳️‍🌈

01.06.2025 16:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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First Look: GOOD FORTUNE
A well-meaning but rather inept angel named Gabriel (Keanu Reeves) meddles in the lives of a struggling gig worker (Aziz Ansari) and a wealthy venture capitalist (Seth Rogen). Check out the trailer
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28.05.2025 15:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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THE PICKUP starring Eddie Murphy, Pete Davidson, Eva Longoria, and Keke Palmer | Coming to Prime Video August 6, 2025

28.05.2025 14:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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HOUSE ON EDEN | in theaters 7/25/25
From Social Media Sensations Kris Collins and Celina Myers, paranormal investigators Kris, Celina, and their videographer Jay expect the usual scares when they set out on their latest case. Watch the trailer here:
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27.05.2025 16:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Thurs May 29th at 8pm ET AMERICAN CATS will premiere virtually in the US with a livestream discussion following the film with lead subject Dr. Jennifer Conrad, moderated by Danielle Bays (Cat Protection & Policy, Humane World). Watch with your favorite feline friend. Visit tinyurl.com/american-cats

27.05.2025 16:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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In GOOD FORTUNE, a well-meaning but rather inept angel named Gabriel (Keanu Reeves) meddles in the lives of a struggling gig worker (Aziz Ansari) and a wealthy venture capitalist (Seth Rogen). Written and Directed by: Aziz Ansari.
ONLY IN THEATERS OCTOBER 17

27.05.2025 16:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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HBO's HARRY POTTER television series has cast screen newcomers Dominic McLaughlin as Harry Potter, Arabella Stanton as Hermione Granger, and Alastair Stout as Ron Weasley. The series will be a faithful adaptation of the beloved Harry Potter books, written by and executive-produced by J.K. Rowling.

27.05.2025 16:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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‘Jane Austen Wrecked My Life’ Review: Camille Rutherford delights in the breezy romantic comedy, sure to charm fans of the English novelist Camille Rutherford’s sensibility and awkward charm make her the perfect protagonist (it makes sense) in the modern romantic comedy “Jane Austen Wrecked My

“Jane Austen Wrecked My Life” is a charming rom-com full of laughs, desire, and passion. Camille Rutherford delivers a captivating performance. She’s delightful and alluring. Charlie Anson and Pablo Pauly are enjoyable, rounding out the love triangle dynamic.

27.05.2025 15:44 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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‘Lilo & Stitch’ Review: Disney’s live-action reimaging is less calamity, more family I will always be a fan of hand-drawn 2D animation. That being said, of all the Disney live-action reboots, “Lilo & Stitch” is the best. Directed by

The story stays true to the original while incorporating a few changes and adding some new characters. Less cosmic calamity, more grounded family, with our six-year-old protagonist giving Experiment 626 a run for his money in the mischief department.

27.05.2025 15:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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‘Hurry Up Tomorrow’ Review: More visual album than narrative film, this one’s strictly for fans of The Weeknd Abel Tesfaye, known to pop music fans as The Weeknd, portrays a fictionalized version of himself in the brooding psychological thriller “Hurry Up

It’s dark, surreal, and filled with The Weeknd's songs. Perhaps vain, fans will appreciate it the most; yet, despite the lack of plot, the film draws the viewer into a world of pain and beats, heightened by Jenna Ortega and the always reliable and intriguing Barry Keoghan.

27.05.2025 15:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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‘Caught By the Tides’ Review: Jia Zhangke captures China’s transformation over the last two decades using characters from his past films for the stunning docufiction drama Reminiscent of Richard Linklater’s “Boyhood,’ which was shot in spurts over 10 years as we watched Ellar Coltrane grow up before our eyes, director Jia

“Caught By the Tides” serves as a form of closure for fans of Jia Zhangke’s filmography. Driven by Zhao Tao’s nuanced performance, stunning visuals, and a laid-back ambiance, this ambitious project depicts the rise and fall of a city, a country, and a couple.

27.05.2025 15:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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‘Final Destination Bloodlines’ Review: Death returns with a vengeance for the sixth installment in the horror franchise You won’t get bored to death watching “Final Destination Bloodlines,” a lively addition to the horror series that takes the established cheating death

Directors Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein have fun instilling us with paranoia by using everyday objects, from pennies and wedding rings to body piercings, transforming them into the Grim Reaper’s playthings. It’s a blood-splattered hullabaloo that proves people are squishy.

27.05.2025 15:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Cinéma condense: Movie Reviews [05.09.25] SHADOW FORCERegarding movies about married assassins, “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” and “True Lies” come to mind, along with the more recent “Black Bag,”

Movie Reviews [05.09.25] This week focusing on the new releases Shadow Force, Fight or Flight, Clown in a Cornfield, Magic Farm, Lilly, and Bonjour Tristesse.

10.05.2025 21:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Let's talk movies! On this week's 2 MOVIE GUYS PODCAST, we discuss Thunderbolts*, The Surfer, Another Simple Favour, and On Swift Horses. Listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.
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07.05.2025 18:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Just received the 40th Anniversary 4K restoration of Re-Animator, approved by producer Brian Yuzna. The 1985 cult classic looks terrific. www.ignite-films.com/products/re-...

07.05.2025 18:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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‘The Surfer’ Review: More breaking point, less point break Lorcan Finnegan’s “The Surfer” stars Nicolas Cage as a father determined to connect with his estranged teenage son (Finn Little) by purchasing his

‘The Surfer’ Review: More breaking point, less point break

07.05.2025 17:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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BRING HER BACK, a twisted new possession horror from ‘Talk to Me’ directors Danny and Michael Philippou. Starring Billy Barratt, Sora Wong, Jonah Wren Phillips, and Sally Hawkins. — IN THEATERS EVERYWHERE MAY 30

07.05.2025 17:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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After nearly twenty years, two-time Academy Award winner Denzel Washington reunites with the legendary Spike Lee for a new joint, HIGHEST 2 LOWEST. In theaters 08.22 and on APPLE TV+ 09/05

07.05.2025 17:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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