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Movie Reviews

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die Review

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Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die

  • Director: Gore Verbinski
  • Writer: Matthew Robinson
  • Starring: Sam Rockwell, Zazie Beetz, Haley Lu Richardson, Michael Peña, Juno Temple, Dino Fetscher, Georgia Goodman, Dominique Maher, Ethan Saunders

Grade: B+

Between Sam Raimi and Gore Verbinski, the start of 2026 is bringing back the filmmakers of some of the biggest movies of the 2000s to make bold new original movies. In Verbinski’s case, he hasn’t actually made a movie in nine years with the little-seen, albeit big-budget, gothic horror film A Cure for Wellness. While Raimi got the big studio treatment courtesy of Disney’s 20th Century Studios, Verbinski’s latest, the ambitious sci-fi action comedy Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die, doesn’t have the same kind of budget or bigwig Hollywood backing.

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The President’s Cake Review

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The President’s Cake

  • Director: Hasan Hadi
  • Writer: Hasan Hadi
  • Starring: Banin Ahmad Nayef, Sajad Mohamad Qasem, Waheed Thabet Khreibat, Rahim AlHaj, Muthanna Malaghi

Grade: B+

Life under a dictatorship has a range of consequences, both intended and unintended. The President’s Cake, the directorial debut from Hasan Hadi, explores the oft-ignored economic effect of life under the Saddam Hussein regime in the 1990s, but it tells a universal story that can be felt beyond the specific place and time. It’s a quietly radical experiment, eschewing a traditional story structure to make a larger point about governmental control and how it affects the innocent.

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