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The First SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME Trailer Goes Around the (Real) World

Yep, Spider-Man's an actual human built out of flesh again.

Coming off the excellent fantasia of Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse, it can feel simultaneously exciting and disappointing for Spider-Man to show up again on film, played by an actual human man with a physical body. Tom Holland is a good actor and he has a disconcertingly youthful face, but he isn’t made out of four
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THE SISTERS BROTHERS Trailer Gives Off that Old West Goodness

The brothers are here to perk you up as they shoot you down

The Sisters Brothers, based on the novel of the same name by Patrick Dewitt, has landed from stalwart quality picture house Annapurna Pictures. Featuring John C. Reilly (who bought the rights and produces) and Joaquin Phoenix as the titular Sisters, uh, brothers, it lands with a comedic vibe that seems broad here, but which reads
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LIFE Review: The Banal Frontier

It’s a perfectly competent slasher-in-space, but should that be enough?

I have to say this up at the top: I can’t and won’t abide by referring to this sci-fi horror movie by its title. There’s just too large a space for puns and double meanings that would get old even if I was doing my best to avoid them. Whenever it comes up, instead of
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