Movie Review

Critique Revolve: ‘The Last Voyage of the Demeter’ [Review]

The director’s approach to Dracula, diverging from the norm, aimed to capture the character’s monstrosity over romanticism, resulting in a nihilistic incarnation of evil Welcome to Critique Revolve! In this episode, the hosts review and discuss The Last Voyage of the Demeter Synopsis: A crew sailing from Carpathia to England finds that they are carrying…

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Critique Revolve: ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem’ [Review]

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are back and better than ever Welcome to Critique Revolve! In this episode, the hosts review and discuss TMNT: Mutant Mayhem Synopsis: The film follows the Turtle brothers as they work to earn the love of New York City while facing down an army of mutants. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:…

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Critique Revolve: ‘Oppenheimer’ [Review]

Oppenheimer is a masterpiece. It feels like all of Christopher Nolan’s work, beginning with Memento, has laid down the path to this film. It is a movie directed by an auteur who has experimented with narrative form and visual metaphor to the point that he has become a profound and relevant storyteller. Welcome to Critique…

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Critique Revolve: ‘Fast X’ [Review]

Fast X proves to be a self-indulgent spectacle, overflowing with an excessive display that aims to artificially propel the franchise to epic status but ultimately falls short due to its contrived and forced nature Welcome to Critique Revolve! In this episode, the hosts review and discuss Fast X Synopsis: Dom Toretto and his family are…

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Critique Revolve: ‘Citadel’ [Review]

Citadel is an action smorgasbord of adrenaline and derivative plot gimmicks  Welcome to Critique Revolve! In this episode, the hosts review and discuss Citadel  Synopsis: Global spy agency Citadel has fallen, and its agents’ memories were wiped clean. Now the powerful syndicate, Manticore, is rising in the void. Can the Citadel agents recollect their past…

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Critique Revolve: AI Authorship in Hollywood – The Pros and Cons

As AI technology makes advances in the arts and other forms of media, we are left with big questions pertaining to what we as a culture will leave behind: will it be a human or synthetic culture? Critique Revolve is a film and media podcast dedicated to the discussion of film, television, and media as…

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Critique Revolve: ‘Renfield’ [Review]

Nicolas Cage brilliantly evokes the abject and uncanny pedigree of Bela Lugosi’s Dracula in an otherwise ho-hum comedic, gore-fest sequel to the 1931 Dracula film  Welcome to Critique Revolve! In this episode, the hosts review and discuss Renfield Synopsis: Dracula‘s lackey, R. M. Renfield, finds a new lease on life in modern-day New Orleans when…

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Critique Revolve: ‘The Super Mario Bros. Movie’ [Review]

The Super Mario Bros. Movie is an avalanche of nostalgia and fun Welcome to Critique Revolve! In this episode, the hosts review and discuss The Super Mario Bros. Movie  Synopsis: The story of The Super Mario Bros. on their journey through the Mushroom Kingdom. The Super Mario Bros. Movie is a 2023 American computer-animated adventure film based on Nintendo’s Mario video game…

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Critique Revolve: ‘Air’ [Review]

Air‘s all-star cast puts the movie as an early front-runner for multiple Oscar nods Welcome to Critique Revolve! In this episode, the hosts review and discuss Air Synopsis: Air follows the history of shoe salesman Sonny Vaccaro, and how he led Nike in its pursuit of the greatest athlete in the history of basketball, Michael…

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Critique Revolve: The 2023 Oscars – Part 3

In this episode of Critique Revolve, the hosts discuss the 2023 Oscar Winners and Losers. This is part 3 of a 3-part Oscar special. Welcome to Critique Revolve!  The hosts for this discussion: Mike, Thomas, Steve, Dave  You can listen to part 1 here You can listen to part 2 here RAIN MAN DIGITAL’S RATING…

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