All posts by Chase Gifford
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Nerdlocker Movie Review: Glass
“You know what the scariest thing is? To not know your place in this world. To not know why you’re here. That’s just an awful...
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Nerdlocker Movie Review: The Upside
Brief rant, please bear with me for a moment… One thing I feared as I started reviewing films on a regular basis was that my...
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Nerdlocker Presents: Chase’s Top Twenty-One Films of 2018
What a year this was… the good, the bad, the Trump… the movies, the tv shows, the music… So much to love, so much to...
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Nerdlocker Movie Review: Bird Box
So many movies have companion pieces that are completely unrelated yet have everything to do with one another. Volcano/Dante’s Peak, Armageddon/Deep Impact and so on;...
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Nerdlocker Movie Review: Welcome to Marwen
This is a film that has left me a bit conflicted. On one hand the story is fascinating and the man that inspired the film...
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Nerdlocker Movie Review: Aquaman
The DCEU is a limping animal that needs to be put out of our misery. Wonder Woman is a shining beacon in an otherwise dismal,...
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Nerdlocker Movie Review: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
“With great power comes great responsibility.” -Stan Lee (R.I.P.) I’ve always felt that Spider-Man is one of the most inspirational characters in the MARVEL-verse. So...
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Nerdlocker Movie Review: Roma
Alfonso Cuarón is an auteur with the films he creates but that has never been more true than with his latest and most personal project,...
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Nerdlocker Movie Review: Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle
The Jungle Book story is becoming just like the Robin Hood franchise; it’s so-called refreshed approaches all end up achieving the same exact thing. And...
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Nerdlocker Movie Review: Creed II
Creed II is a great example of a formulaic storyline still managing to be effective. With strong enough character progression and a focused story the...
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Nerdlocker Movie Review: Widows
The mark of a true filmmaker is their ability to adapt their own style to any genre and make it something special. Steve McQueen is...
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Nerdlocker Movie Review: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Full disclosure: I’m a bit of a fanboy of this whole Wizarding World thing so my opinion may be (it is) a bit biased. I...
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Nerdlocker Movie Review: Instant Family
A comedy with heart and a message is always a welcome thing and Instant Family is exactly what it needs to be. If you watch...
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Nerdlocker Movie Review: The Girl in the Spider’s Web
If this is what comes forth in the thaw, please, let it snow. Had this been the first American remake I would have considered it...
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Artist Interview – Instant Family Writer and Director Sean Anders
It’s moments like this interview with writer and director Sean Anders, that really make this world feel small. Almost ten years to the day one...
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Nerdlocker Movie Review: Overlord
Say what you will about the man, J.J. Abrams has a knack for creating interesting new properties. They may not all be winners (The Cloverfield...
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Nerdlocker Movie Review: Halloween (2018)
“I met him, 15 years ago; I was told there was nothing left; no reason, no conscience, no understanding in even the most rudimentary sense...
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Nerdlocker Movie Review: Apos✞le
Sometimes the lines drawn by genres are so blurred it’s difficult to label a certain movie a singular genre. For example look at The Raid,...
