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Gladiator II (2024) movie review

Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal and Paul Mascal dazzle with standout performances, but Gladiator II fails to recapture the original’s epic magic. 24 years later, Ridley Scott has returned to present the sequel to his legacy-defining epic blockbuster, Gladiator. For the ones like me who grew up watching (and quoting) Gladiator, this is kind of a […]

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Le Trou, The Hole (1960) movie review

Le Trou hits hard. A French masterpiece and an authentic, gritty prison escape movie that’s The Shawshank Redemption’s granddaddy. Le Trou is directed by Jacques Becker, an influential director to the French New Wave directors but still remains underrated in the spectrum of well-known foreign filmmakers. Le Trou, his final film is a masterpiece beyond

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Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021) movie review

Think ‘Lethal Weapon’ with a talking alien parasite. Tom Hardy returns as Venom/Eddie Brock, in an action-comedy with stunning visuals and an effectively short runtime. Tom Hardy returned for the sequel to his fan-favourite, critical failure Venom as Eddie Brock and the symbiote living in his body. Initially, Tom Hardy seemed an unusual choice for

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