Tag: film
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Best of 2025 Films
Honourable Mentions: KPop Demon Hunters, 28 Years Later, A Minecraft Movie, Thunderbolts*, The Naked Gun, Predator: Badlands, Superman, Black Bag, John Candy: I Like Me, Companion, Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, Hamnet, Avatar: Fire and Ash, The Long Walk 10. Mickey 17 Director Bong Joon Ho (Parasite) provides a sci-fi tale of space travel,…
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Blog: Whole Bloody Affair musings
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair was basically an unseen cinematic legend, only shown a few times at Quentin Tarantino’s personal theatre, until the entire four-and-a-half-hour version was released a few weeks ago. It is basically just like the two volumes back-to-back but with some new flourishes. But the best thing about seeing it as…
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Avatar: Fire and Ash
4 outta 5 With the third Avatar movie, director James Cameron once again delivers a spectacular visual journey into the world of humans and Na’vi. The films have gotten a little less awe inspiring as they’ve gone on and the simplicity of the first film’s story makes it the best. There’s a lot more characters…
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Avatar: The Way of Water (2022 review)
4 outta 5 After more than a decade, the sequel to the highest grossing movie of all time arrives with Avatar: The Way of Water. The length of time in between installments basically makes this a legacy sequel, focusing on the next generation. Director James Cameron (Terminator 2, Aliens, Titanic) is very much in love…
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Avatar (2009 review)
4 out of 5 After a more than a decade, James Cameron returns to fiction filmmaking with Avatar. There is the inevitable comparison to Aliens because it’s a Cameron film about marines vs. aliens, but that’s unfair because Aliens is one of the greatest goddamn movies of all time and Avatar . . . isn’t. …
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Five Nights at Freddy’s 2
2 outta 5 Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 is a limp entry in the film adaptation of the videogame series. Both films are overtly mopey emo slogs in a series that really should be more concerned about animatronic carnage. It is a sequel to the 2023 film but even in a sequel there should be…
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Wake Up Dead Man
5 outta 5 With the third Knives Out Mystery, writer/director Rian Johnson once again jumps genres, defies expectations, and has a great mystery with Wake Up Dead Man. While the 2nd film, Glass Onion, went full bonkers comedy, this is more of a gothic horror film with ruminations upon faith and control. But there is…
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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (’22 review)
5 outta 5 Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is a fantastic sequel to the fantastic original movie, Knives Out. This doesn’t simply repeat the murder mystery formula of the first film, this murder mystery has a unique tone and structure. With a lot of Rian Johnson’s output, like The Last Jedi or Looper, he…
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Knives Out (’19 review)
5 outta 5 Writer and director Rian Johnson (Brick, The Last Jedi) returns with the peppy and hilarious murder mystery Knives Out. Like all his work, this takes a few genre conventions and then twists them on its head unexpectedly, sometimes doing exactly what a murder mystery would do and then swerving. It is sold…
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Sisu: Road to Revenge
4 outta 5 Sisu: Road to Revenge is fun theatrical counter-programing to Wicked for Good. It is probably accurate that Sisu features more bloody mutilations and gunfire. Sisu: Road to Revenge isn’t a film with much depth as this is basically just action and mayhem hung together. But the first Sisu film was basically that…
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