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Kevin Smith’s Smodcast Cinemas is Struggling

AlexGherzo | Jan 7, 2024 | 2

In 2022, Kevin Smith and some friends bought Atlantic Cinemas, a movie theater in Atlantic Highlands near Smith’s hometown of Red Bank, New Jersey. The idea was to preserve a treasure of his youth, and since rechristening it Smodcastle Cinemas, Smith has played classic movies – along with some o...

REVIEW: Extraction 2 (2023)

AlexGherzo | Jun 16, 2023 | 2

Extraction 2 lives up to its promise; it’s an exhilarating action movie that manages to top its excellent predecessor in both suspense and spectacle. It also features three-dimensional characters who feel like real people with human motivations and desires amid the fantastical action sequences, an...

Final Extraction 2 Trailer Doesn’t Stop Moving

AlexGherzo | May 17, 2023 | 1

Tyler Rake is bringing the summer movie season to the small screen. Netflix has released the final trailer for Extraction 2, the sequel to their 2020 action extravaganza. Produced by the Russo Brothers (and written by Joe Russo), Extraction 2 follows Australian mercenary Tyler Rake, fully recovered ...

Community Movie Delayed by the Writers’ Strike?

Jed | Hollywood Scholar | May 6, 2023 | 0

Will Abed’s hopeful prophecy of “six seasons and a movie” ever come to pass? Because at every turn, the announced Peacock Community movie has been delayed or put in jeopardy by constant issues. After an entire decade, the promised film is closer than it has ever been. Yet, the wr...

Extraction 2 Trailer is Invincible

AlexGherzo | Apr 3, 2023 | 2

What John Wick is doing at the theater, Tyler Rake is about to do for streaming. Netflix has released a trailer for Extraction 2, the sequel to their hit action movie from 2020. Little is known about the plot of Extraction 2 other than it features Tyler Rake once again rescuing someone from a danger...

Extraction 2 First Look Promises More Action

AlexGherzo | Sep 24, 2022 | 0

Part of Netflix’s Tudum event – and by far the part that most interests me – was a behind-the-scenes “first look” video describing the making of Extraction 2 (which looks like it’ll be the official title). There are plenty of shots of Chris Hemsworth in action as Tyler Rake, the mercenar...