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THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS – Review by Valerie Kalfrin

July 23, 2025July 24, 2025 Valerie Kalfrin Ebon Moss-Bacharach, joseph quinn, marvel, Matt Shakman, mcu, Pedro Pascal, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, vanessa kirby

The film’s true superpower is its grounded, heartfelt tone. Director Matt Shakman leans into the source material’s wackier elements with an unironic touch that makes the performers and emotions shine. The four look out for each other as a family—and consider the world as their family too. At a time when real headlines can be depressing, The Fantastic Four: First Steps celebrates thoughtfulness and empathy with a can-do attitude and sense of community that never goes out of style.

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THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS – Review by T. J. Callahan

July 23, 2025July 24, 2025 T. J. Callahan Ebon Moss-Bacharach, joseph quinn, marvel, Matt Shakman, mcu, Pedro Pascal, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, vanessa kirby

When someone with superpowers says they’ll move the Earth for you, take them seriously.
In The Fantastic Four: First Steps that’s exactly what Reed Richards is trying to do…move the Earth to save the planet and its people…from the gargantuanly gluttonous Galactus…a being who needs to feed on other worlds with an appetite that is never satisfied.

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THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS – Review by Susan Kamyab

July 23, 2025July 24, 2025 Susan Kamyab Ebon Moss, joseph quinn, Pedro Pascal, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, vanessa kirby

While I loved Superman, the same can’t be said about the newest superheroes movie to hit the big screen. The Fantastic Four always struggles to make a successful adaptation. They seemingly find the right cast, but the wrong script. The Fantastic Four: First Steps is headed in a better direction than its predecessors but lacks the charm that typically leaves audiences wanting more.

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HOARD – Review by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

August 29, 2024August 29, 2024 Alexandra Heller-Nicholas Hayley Squires, Hoard, joseph quinn, Lily-Beau Leach, Luna Carmoon

Sweeping the 2023 Venice Film Festival with its winning streak of no less than four awards, writer-director Luna Carmoon’s feature debut Hoard is one hell of a calling card.. Carmoon aggressively rejects the fetishization of poverty that is so typical of much British cinema and instead affords her characters extraordinary grace and dignity that feels not merely precious but legitimately magical

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A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE – Review by Valerie Kalfrin

July 1, 2024July 5, 2024 Valerie Kalfrin A Quiet Place: Day One, franchise, horror, john krasinski, joseph quinn, Lupita Nyong'o, Michael Sarnoski, Pat Scola

The trailers don’t prepare you for the strikingly emotional human story at the heart of A Quiet Place: Day One, a phenomenal film that subverts expectations in rich and affecting ways.

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A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE – Review by T.J. Callahan

June 27, 2024 T. J. Callahan A Quiet Place: Day One, franchise, horror, john krasinski, joseph quinn, Lupita Nyong'o, Michael Sarnoski

Even though it’s the third film in the franchise, A Quiet Place: Day One is the prequel to the first two that followed the Abbott family as they tried to stay one step ahead of the invading Death Angels…sightless aliens who hunt by sound and won’t rest until humanity is destroyed. Day One takes place at the beginning of the invasion when the armor-plated creatures with impeccable hearing first landed on Earth. The story follows Sam, a terminally ill woman living with her cat in a hospice just outside of New York City. She and a group of residents go on a field trip to the city just hours before the alien attack occurs, leaving them fighting for their lives again…in a totally terrifying way.

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MAKE UP – Review by Sarah Ward

March 26, 2020March 26, 2020 Sarah Ward 0 Comments Ania Pryzgoda, claire oakley, joseph quinn, make up, molly windsor, stefanie martini

To first-time feature writer/director Claire Oakley, her debut film Make Up and the movie’s 18-year-old protagonist Ruth (Molly Windsor), the roar of the Cornish seaside is equally unnerving and alluring — a force that threatens as much as it calms, and entices while splashing its dangers anywhere and everywhere.