MOVIE: Boy Kills World (2024)

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Boy Kills WorldYear: 2024Rating: RLength: 111 minutes / 1.85 hours Video game movies are gaining some respect after the disastrous jump to the silver screen in the 1990s. It's interesting, then, that Boy Kills World (2024) takes all the cliches of the beat-'em-up and hack-and-slash video games from the arcades and makes a movie out of a game that doesn't exist. The problem is this movie also adheres to a lot of the tropes that made the video game movies of the 1990s sub-par to the ones that exist today. Don't get me wrong here. Boy Kills World is fun if you just turn off your brain and enjoy the ridiculous ride. Bill Skarsgard is great as the "silent protagonist"—made even better by H. Jon Benjamin's narration of the character's internal thoughts. The action is intense and there are a few set pieces that play to the strengths of the more interesting characters. And as a video game movie, its structure of...
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MOVIE: The Bob’s Burgers Movie (2022)

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The Bob's Burgers Movie Year: 2022 Rating: PG-13 Length: 102 minutes / 1.70 hours Let a television show get popular enough, and eventually, you'll see a movie get made of it. This is true for older shows like Get Smart (2008) as well as modern shows like Bob's Burgers. It seems that animated shows have finally "made it" when they get their first animated movie. South Park, The Simpsons, and SpongeBob SquarePants are among the ranks of well-known animated sitcoms that made the leap to the big screen. Now Bob's Burgers joins their ranks with The Bob's Burgers Movie (2022). The challenge for a 30-minute animated show expanding to a feature-length movie has always been the strength of its intertwining plotlines. For this movie, introducing an enormous sinkhole that's blocking the entrance to the restaurant ups the scale of normal shenanigans, especially on the first day of summer when people are ready to go out to eat. Add to this a murder mystery that the...
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