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Gary Larson's The Far Sidehas always managed to take the most mundane aspects of life and put them through an absurdist lens, and the trappings and tropes of pop culture are no different. Among the ...

Mafia Mamma (2023) Film Review, a movie directed by Catherine Hardwicke, written by Amanda Sthers, J. Michael Feldman and Debbie Jhoon and starring Toni Collette, Monica Bellucci, Sophia Nomvete, ...

Mafia Mamma coulda been a contender, a sharp idea to throw an unsuspecting wife, mother and frustrated businesswoman into a new life as the head of an Italian crime family. Instead, though blessed to ...

Director Catherine Hardwicke is not known for making comedies, unless you count “Twilight” (2008), the first of several laughable films in the “Twilight” series of teen-vampire romance films. She’s ...

It feels odd to say it, but one expected more from Mafia Mamma. It was unlikely to be the next comedy masterpiece, but it still could have been disposable fun. After all, even the most flawed of ...

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Thomas Butt is a senior writer. An avid film connoisseur, Thomas actively logs his film consumption on Letterboxd and vows to connect with many more cinephiles through the platform. He is immensely ...

You never want bad films to happen to great actors, but every once in a while one of your favorites inevitably turns up in an unfortunate and miscalculated clunker. Sadly, Catherine Hardwicke’s “Mafia ...