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The Summer 2025 Box Office Breakdown

As August comes to a close, the weather starts to change, and so do the blockbuster movies playing in theaters. 2025’s summer blockbuster season saw live-action remakes of beloved children's movies, original horror films, superhero movies, and more. With the summer...

Rehashed ‘Rebirth’ is another low for the Jurassic franchise

Jurassic World: Rebirth (1 star out of 4) We’re seven films into the Jurassic Park/World franchise, and the filmmakers still don’t have any new ideas. “Jurassic World: Rebirth” feels like an excuse to make money without trying, and it deserves to join the fossil...

Why you need to watch “Kubo and the Two Strings” (2016) now that it’s back on Netflix!

Premise A young storyteller, Kubo (Art Parkinson), lives the truth of his stories as he must find an ancient suit of armor to fight against the vengeful Moon King (Ralph Fiennes). A Dying Art https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r01mk6F_Pk See how stop-motion played a...

Weak ending undermines suspenseful ‘Heretic’

Heretic (2 ½ stars out of 4) During the two years I spent as a missionary in Northern Illinois, I would occasionally wind up at an appointment where the investigator clearly wasn’t interested in learning about the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ. In the best cases,...

‘Love and Thunder’ is a step down from ‘Ragnarok,’ but pretty good for post-‘Endgame’ MCU

Thor: Love and Thunder – 3 stars out of 4 For the “Thor: Love and Thunder” soundtrack, director Taika Waititi uses Guns ‘n Roses the same way he used Led Zeppelin for “Thor: Ragnarok” in 2017. Guns ‘n Roses was a great band, far superior to most all its peers, but it...

Podcast: Halloween episode!

There's no better way to enjoy the candy-passing-out hours than with the latest Halloween episode from the Flix Junkies. Ghost stories, scary movies and some talk about "Cocoon," this latest episode has it all.  If you've ever wondered what it's like to grow up in a...

Podcast: a very bad day

In true, very bad day fashion, everything goes wrong for this week's episode. Scheduling, location, babysitting arrangements, hardware malfunctions, software configuration issues, and probably things we have yet to discover. But we still manage a great show with two...

Where are the Flix Junkies!?!

We apologize for the sporadic schedule we've been keeping lately. This weekend marks the end of a lot of travel for the team and stories we've been trying to cover, so we should be back on a weekly schedule starting Friday the 10th. Thanks for listening, thanks for...