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Author: Dan Scully

Dan Scully is a film buff and humorist living in a tiny apartment in Philadelphia. He hosts the podcast I Like to Movie Movie and is the proud father to twin cactuses named Riggs & Murtaugh. Also, he doesn't really mind when Batman kills people. Follow him on Twitter and Letterboxd.
Film Reviews

Oxygen (dir. Alexandre Aja): Film review

Dan Scully May 12, 2021 No Comments

This solid thriller had reviewer Dan Scully clenching his clenchables much harder than he expected

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The Mauritanian
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The Mauritanian (dir. Kevin Macdonald): Film review

Dan Scully May 11, 2021 No Comments

The Mauritanian is very worth watching, but it feels like it exists just a few years too late.

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Film Reviews

Wrath of Man (dir. Guy Ritchie): Film review

Dan Scully May 8, 2021 No Comments

WRATH OF MAN, the British gangster-heist-revenge film from Guy Ritchie, is a legitimately great movie

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Mortal Kombat (dir. Simon McQuoid): Film review

Dan Scully April 22, 2021 No Comments

It’s never easy to adapt a video game to film, mostly because the fun of a game is typically not the plot, so much as…

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Godzilla vs. Kong (dir. Adam Wingard): Film review

Dan Scully March 31, 2021 No Comments

This clash of the titans is absolutely wonderful to behold

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NOBODY (dir. Ilya Naishuller): Film review

Dan Scully March 28, 2021 No Comments

If someone told me that the cinematic trend kicked off by Liam Neeson in which a middle-aged gentleman with a certain set of skills has…

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CRISIS (dir. Nicholas Jarecki): Film review

Dan Scully March 18, 2021 No Comments

Crisis does for the opioid crisis what Crash attempted to do for race relations in America.

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100 Days to Live (dir. Ravin Gandhi): Film review

Dan Scully March 16, 2021 No Comments

In the absence of resources, all you really need is a good story and the desire to tell it

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Film Reviews

SLAXX (dir. Elza Kephart): Film review

Dan Scully March 15, 2021 No Comments

A pair of possessed jeans comes to life and starts killing the staff in delightfully brutal ways

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Sacrifice (dir. Andy Collier, Toor Mian): Film review

Dan Scully February 18, 2021 No Comments

Takes its time getting to the scary stuff, but uses that time to ratchet up the dread in a big way, leading to a surprising finale that chills to the bone.

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greenland
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Greenland (dir. Ric Roman Waugh): Film review

Dan Scully February 14, 2021 No Comments

Worth checking out before the world ends

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BLISS (dir. Mike Cahill): Film review

Dan Scully February 5, 2021 No Comments

An empty novelty, presented in a way that can only keep the audience at a distance

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The little things
Film Reviews

The Little Things (dir. John Lee Hancock): Film review

Dan Scully January 26, 2021 No Comments

I have a feeling that The Little Things is going to be a bit of a critical punching bag, but I enjoyed the film

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Film Reviews

Psycho Goreman (dir. Steven Kostanski): Film review

Dan Scully January 18, 2021 2 Comments

It’s hard to overstate how wonderfully fucked up this movie is.

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Theater

One Night in Miami (dir. Regina King): Film review

Dan Scully January 15, 2021 4 Comments

A fictionalized meeting of Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Jim Brown, and Sam Cooke, adapted from the play by the same name.

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Theater

Wonder Woman 1984 (dir. Patty Jenkins): Film review

Dan Scully December 23, 2020 No Comments

Exactly what I needed during this atypical holiday season

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Theater

Promising Young Woman (dir. Emerald Fennell): Film review

Dan Scully December 20, 2020 No Comments

A stylish, angry feminist thriller/dark comedy with attitude to burn.

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News of the World (dir. Paul Greengrass): Film review

Dan Scully December 20, 2020 No Comments

The kind of movie that’s totally worth watching while simultaneously being nothing at all to write home about.

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Theater

Vanguard (dir. Stanley Tong): Film review

Dan Scully November 17, 2020 No Comments

Jackie Chan, who is now in his sixties, shows us he can still exchange punches and kicks with the best of them.

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Theater

FREAKY (dir. Christopher Landon): Film review

Dan Scully November 12, 2020 No Comments

By mashing up horror tropes with sci-fi concepts, Christopher Landon creates movies that are fun to watch, above all else

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