Tag: 2024
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Blog: 97th Oscars Catch-Up
With more than a few 2024 films under my belt, I have tried to play catch-up with a few of the Academy Award Nominees, finding some surprises, some good, some bad, some really interesting and some a drag. Then I bet on a few and try to make some cash! Best Animated Film Nominees Having…
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Best of 2024 Films
Honourable Mentions: The Substance, Transformers One, The Fall Guy, Furisoa: A Mad Max Saga, Kinds of Kindness, Alien: Romulus, Saturday Night, Venom: The Last Dance, Gladiator II, Civil War 10. Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story A documentary about the life of actor and activist Christopher Reeve, that bounces between two distinct phases of his life;…
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The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
4 outta 5 As a cinematic return to the world of Middle-Earth, The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim is an interesting experience. This is not the first time the world of J.R.R. Tolkien has been in an animated form, there are some, uh, really unique animated film adaptations decades ago, although…
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Kraven The Hunter
3 outta 5 Kraven The Hunter is the latest, and potentially final, attempt by Sony Pictures to spin off various Spider-Man characters into their own franchise, without actually using the webbed wall-crawler himself. The Venom series has been consistently fun and wacky throughout all three installments, although it has been more mixed (to say politely)…
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Nutcrackers
4 outta 5 Nutcrackers is one of those comedies about a busy working guy who, for various reasons, must learn to settle down as they inherit guardianship of rambunctious children, which has been done many, many times before. Now Nutcrackers may not get many points for originality, but it does have a sort of chaotic…
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Moana 2
3 outta 5 Moana 2 is a decent sequel to Moana, a film that was released in 2016 and has gone on to become one of the most streamed movies of all time (couple of dozens of billion views). So, the sequel was inevitable, even if it was originally announced as a Disney Plus spinoff…
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Gladiator II
4 outta 5 Gladiator II may be guilty of copying and pasting a few things from the 2000 original Gladiator film but it’s okay because one is going to want to see Gladiator stuff in a Gladiator film. There is a lot more flab on this sequel even if the movies are pretty much the…
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Spellbound
3 outta 5 Spellbound is a film by Skydance Animation that was released exclusively on Netflix that is trying really hard to emulate the singing Disney princess animated formula. And it kind of succeeds! It may be a bit basic copy and paste in some places, the wistful princess with a cutesy animal sidekick, transformative…
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Red One
3 outta 5 Red One is an action-comedy Christmas film, which feels a lot like the superhero FX blockbusters of the last few years, with big brawls and lots of quips. It is trying so hard to be bombastic and outsized it ends up being a bit too long, cutting out about fifteen minutes from…
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Brothers
4 outta 5 Brothers is an amusingly zany movie about low rent crooks that also doubles as a dysfunctional family reunion story. It is billed as an “action comedy” but there probably isn’t a lot of action, aside from one madcap chase on a golf course, and the finale features some big mishaps involving a…
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