Tag: Tetris
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Gran Turismo Aimed To Borrow The Best Parts Of Top Gun
Video games are the new superheroes, in that every Hollywood studio seems to want their own film adaptation to cash in on the success and the acclaim of movies like “Sonic the Hedgehog” and shows like “Arcane” or “The Last of Us.” Sure, while the so-called “video game curse” has finally been disproven, we still…
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‘The Beanie Bubble’ Review: Elizabeth Banks Carries Conventional Biopic
This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the film being covered here wouldn’t exist.The so-called year of the “brand” movie continues and after the varying successes of films like Air, BlackBerry, Flamin’ Hot, and Tetris, we now have The Beanie…
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‘The Beanie Bubble’ Review: Zach Galifianakis Leads a Modest Comedy About History’s Biggest Toy Craze
As cute and understuffed as the plushies alluded to by its title, Kristin Gore and Damian Kulash, Jr.’s “The Beanie Bubble” is a dramatic comedy born from the collision between two different fads: The Beanie Baby mania of the late ’90s, and the corporate biopic craze of the early 2020s.Like “Air,” “Barbie,” “Blackberry,” and “Tetris”…
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This Apple TV+ True Crime Miniseries Is Still Worth Tuning in For
Last year, AppleTV+ delivered a terrific six-episode psychological crime drama miniseries called Black Bird. It stars Taron Egerton in the lead role of Jimmy Keene. We have seen him most recently in another AppleTV+ movie, Tetris, just a few months ago. Egerton is solid per usual, but this show is all about the unheralded performance…
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This Is the Reason Why 2023 Is the Year of Toy Movies
I love toys, they were a formative part of my childhood and even as an adult, there’s something about them that just fascinates me. It seems that, at the moment, Hollywood feels the same way because there are a lot of recent and upcoming movies this year that are based on some kind of nostalgic…