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| By Hannah Mevorach, Business Manager, and Lili Temper, Media & Communications Manager

Hannah Mevorach '25 and Lili Temper '25 watch bad new releases so you don't have to.

Entertainment & Media

Guy Ritchie’s ‘Fountain of Youth’ Doesn’t Immortalize the Action-Adventure Genre

On May 23rd, 2025, director Guy Ritchie’s most recent project, Fountain of Youth, was released . . .

| By Hannah Mevorach, Business Manager, and Lili Temper, Media & Communications Manager

Entertainment & Media

‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is A Startling Feat of Haphazard Plot Construction

“The Minecraft movie feels so hard to criticize once you've actually watched it because it's [sic] mission objective is to be as stupid as humanly possible and it's hard to say if there was . . .

May 2025 | By Hannah Mevorach, Business Manager, and Lili Temper, Media Manager

Entertainment & Media

Hulu’s Sci-Fi Musical ‘O’Dessa’ Struggles to Find Its Rhythm

O’Dessa, which was released on Hulu and Disney+ in March, is a sci-fi musical that takes place in a post-apocalyptic, dystopian society ruled by entertainment king Plutonovich (Murray Bartlett) . . .

April 2025 | By Hannah Mevorach, Business Manager, and Lili Temper, Media Manager

Entertainment & Media

87North’s Hitman Action-Comedy ‘Love Hurts’ Takes Many Shots—And Misses Most of Them

In his recent review of 87North Productions’ all-new comedy-action film, Love Hurts (2024), Rolling Stone’s David Fear wrote, “Love may hurt, sure. But it’s not nearly as painful as being forced . . .

March 2025 | By Hannah Mevorach, Business Manager, and Lili Temper, Media Manager

Entertainment & Media

Netflix’s ‘Hot Frosty’ Is a Hot Mess

This November, Netflix released Hot Frosty, a bizarre Christmas rom-com directed by Schitt’s Creek’s Jerry Ciccoritti. The film follows Kathy (Lacey Chabert), a young widow in the small town of Hope Springs, as she falls in love with a snowman she accidentally brings to life (Dustin . . .

February 2025 | By Hannah Mevorach, Business Manager, and Lili Temper, Media Manager

Entertainment & Media

‘Red One’ boldly asks the question: How much money is too much to spend on a Christmas movie?

“My grandma called it a new christmas[sic] classic and my dad called it one of the top 5 worst movies he’s ever seen in his life, so honestly a success.” That’s X user @wisetruecorrect’s . . .

December 2024 | By Hannah Mevorach, Business Manager, and Lili Temper, Media Manager

Entertainment & Media

Wait, what just happened? The fever dream that is Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis’

“Megalopolis is a lot of things, and one of them is like if Baz Luhrman[sic] made a Batman movie but lost the rights halfway through production.” That’s how X user @danielleradford describes . . .

November 2024 | By Hannah Mevorach, Business Manager, and Lili Temper, Media Manager

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