Category: Young Adult
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Review: Ensemble Ensemble
BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE (2024) First off, I must note that I am not the biggest Tim Burton fan. I like my scary to be scary and free from whimsical Danny Elfman soundtracks telling me it’s all going to be okay. As a child I actually preferred the Beetlejuice cartoon to the movie, because, well hell, each…
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Incoming Movie Review: Supergood
INCOMING (2024) Yes, we’ve been here before: A first week of high school teen comedy with an intimidating older kids’ party setting, crushing crushes on the just-beyond-your-reach dream girl, nerds, etc. Every generation cries out for an awkward insecure group of freshmen to navigate drugs, girls, bullies and diarrhea to commiserate with (or at least…
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Uglies Movie Review: No Pug Fuglies
UGLIES (2024) Being an average looking dystopian movie in this bigger, better, hotter, appearance-oriented movie sphere can be really really hard. Unfortunately for Joey King (who proves once again that she can carry a film), Uglies fails to glow up. Mostly because it excited us with current issues such as our obsession with beauty, plastic…