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Madeleine’s Score: Loved it—telling everyone about it! (5/5 cool points) Love and Monsters came out in fall 2020, which means it may have slipped under your radar due to pandemic craziness. If so, you’ve been missing out. I’ve only ever applied the term “cute” to two post-apocalyptic movies. The first
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Madeleine’s Score: Enjoyed it—would watch it again (4/5 cool points) Dune. Sci-fi fans everywhere know how loaded of a title it is, and most of us have strong emotions attached to it—either positive or negative with little middle ground. I’ll save my review of the novel Dune for another day
Madeleine’s Score: Loved it—telling everyone about it! (5/5 cool points) The sequel to A Quiet Place came out way back in May of this year, and even though I watched it right when it came out, I somehow waited until now to review it. Over Halloween weekend when social folks
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Madeleine’s Score: Loved it—telling everyone about it! (5/5 cool points) A few weeks ago, I decided to rewatch Netflix’s Daredevil series. I devoured each season when they originally came out several years ago, and I’ve rewatched them individually at one point or another. But upon my recent binge of the
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Madeleine’s Score: Enjoyed it—would watch it again (4/5 cool points) Gus is just a normal kid. He loves his dad, reading books, playing with his stuffed animal named “Dog,” and guzzling sugar. There’s just one thing… He’s part-deer. The world fell ten years ago during “The Great Crumble” when a
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Madeleine’s Score: Made myself finish it (2/5 cool points) Welcome to New World, a recently colonized planet where all male humans and animals have “noise” that everyone can hear and see. “Noise” is comprised of a man’s innermost thoughts, which appear in both audio and visual forms around his head at
Madeleine’s Score: Loved it—telling everyone about it! (5/5 cool points) A Quiet Place is in my top five favorite post-apocalyptic movies of all time, and because A Quiet Place: Part II heads to theaters at the end of May 2021, it seemed an excellent choice for my first movie review.
Continue readingA Quiet Place: Familial Love Amid Terrifying Silence