Tag: film
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A Minecraft Movie
4 outta 5 A Minecraft Movie is a fun, rambunctious and extremely loud adaption of the videogame series. For a videogame that is primarily concerned with building things, this leans more into the videogame character hero vs ugly bad guys trope (although that is a bigger part of the Minecraft: Dungeons spin off). It still…
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Novocaine
4 outta 5 Novocaine is actually a sweet love story wrapped in ultraviolence. The chemistry between the leads is very electric and then that turns into a ton of crazy action scenes. With a weird high concept hook, it gives the movie free license to have some very over the top action as the hero…
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The Electric State
3 outta 5 The Electric State is Netflix’s 300 million plus stab at event filmmaking by the writers and directors of the last two Avengers movies. After all that money and talent thrown around, the result is okay. There are cool robots smashing stuff, even if almost all of them look grungy, but there is…
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Mickey 17
5 outta 5 Writer and director Bong Joon Ho, who won Best Director and Best Picture for Parasite, has a very diverse set of films. He is interested in themes like class struggle, environmental challenges, and settings like sci-fi, post-apocalyptic, action and monsters like his movies The Host, Snowpiercer and Okja. So as wild and…
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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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Captain America: Brave New World
4 outta 5 Captain America: Brave New World is the 4th Captain America movie, coming almost 9 years after the superlative Captain America: Civil War, with this one featuring a new character as Cap. The trade was in Avengers: Endgame, when Steve Rogers gave Sam Wilson the shield, so probably everyone knows why Sam is…
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Love Hurts
3 outta 5 Love Hurts is a straightforward action romp that gets by on some zippy and messy action scenes and a likable lead. It is sort of rudimentary in its plot, the cliché of a gaggle of elite assassins with each more deadly and quirky than the next is worn out, and the unsuspecting…
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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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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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