Category: Blog Articles
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Nominees & Winners of The 4th Annual WBAMMYs
These are all our nominees and winners of our annual award show, the WBAMMYs. Watch the video podcast episode here:
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Our Top TV Shows of 2022
Here are our favorite TV shows of 2022, a collective list based on our individual top 10s from our 2-parter podcast episode you can check out below. 12. Irma Vep Part meta commentary on the state of the film and TV industry, part ethereal meditation on artists’ lives, Irma Vep is a triumph of the streaming era…
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Our Top Albums of 2022
Here are We Bought A Mic’s collective Best Albums of 2022, based on the separate top 10s shared during the two episodes you can listen to below. 15. the overload yard act pool kids pool kids 14. We’ve been going about this all wrong Sharon Van Etten The unraveling of PUPtheband PUP NOT TiGHT dOMi…
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2022 Critics Association of Central Florida (CACF) Award Winners
This past year we were honored to have joined the Critics Association of Central Florida, an amazing community of film lovers now ready to announce our picks for the best of 2022. Here are the winners of this year’s awards. Best PictureWinner: Everything Everywhere All at OnceRunner-up: Top Gun: Maverick Best DirectorWinner: Daniels, Everything Everywhere…
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The magical melancholy of ‘The Fabelmans’ – Review
The butterflies in the stomach from the anticipation of a new Steven Spielberg movie are a singular feeling. No matter how spotted his recent pictures have been, there’s always the promise of something special around the corner. After all, he has given us some of the greatest movies of all time. In the 21st century,…
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‘Ticket to Paradise’ is a refreshing delight – Review
When we first saw George Clooney and Julia Roberts on-screen together, the year was 2001. The film was Ocean’s Eleven, director Steven Soderbergh’s pitch perfect heist caper and gold standard for movie star power. It arrived at a time when we took for granted movies like the duo’s latest pairing, Ticket To Paradise. Romantic comedies…
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‘Black Adam’ is a boring disaster – Review
The hierarchy of power in the DC universe was supposed to change. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson promised us so in the lead-up to his 15-years-in-the-making superhero outing as the titular Black Adam. The walking, talking ultra-workout one-man brand (it’s about drive, it’s about power) has been hyping up his first official entry into the superhero…
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The Banshees of Inisherin – Review
A hundred years ago on an island off the coast of Ireland, the quiet and quaint village of Inisherin has one single pub that serves pints of dark beer alongside the occasional fiddle song or friendly squabble between old pals. One such pair of friends gets into a spat every couple of years, and it…
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Thor: Love and Thunder – Review
The Marvel Cinematic Universe has entered its flimsy phase. Gone are the days of a consistent throughline and a high floor of appeal that could reach the widest possible audience. There now seems to be more folks growing impatient with these films, and understandably so. Thor’s latest adventure is a mindless and breezy hair metal…
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“You make me brave” – Analyzing Bo Burnham’s EIGHTH GRADE
We have all been young before. Most of us have been in middle school. And I guarantee you it wasn’t the most glamorous or precious time of our lives. It’s a time of change and evolution, and not in an exciting way. But it’s instrumental in how our adolescence is shaped. We learn and grow…
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