Tag: movies
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Blog: Oscars Catch-Up
Looking at the 96th Academy Awards announcement, I have posted about most of them with reviews for two best animated nominated films, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and The Boy and the Heron. Five Best picture nominees, Barbie, Oppenheimer, The Holdovers, Poor Things, and Killers of the Flower Moon all made it into the Top 10…
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Drive-Away Dolls
4 outta 5 Drive-Away Dolls is a crazy road-trip movie featuring crime, severed heads, lots of cameos, lots of quips and lots of sex for its incredibly zippy hour and twenty-four minutes. Directed and co-written by Ethan Cohen (his first film without his brother Joel) it has the bizarre absurdist energy, dialogue patter, dopey crime…
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Madame Web
3 outta 5 Madame Web, the latest attempt by Sony pictures to spin-off multiple Spider-Man supporting characters into their own franchise is ok. Its not terrible or terrific. It has nifty moments, lots of pointless bits and is a tad too long even at under 2 hours. This is basically a supernatural vision of the…
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Role Play
2 outta 5 Role Play is a film that seems like it should be funnier than the premise/title/trailer leads one to believe. Even the tagline, Every Couple Has Their Secrets and the premise seem like a lower budget version of True Lies which handles the action and comedy much more deftly. There are still funny…
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Rebel Moon: Part 1 – A Child of Fire
3 outta 5 Director Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon: Part 1 – A Child of Fire is a dystopian sci-fi opera that feels about as Zack Snyder-y as one could imagine. As Snyder has had the idea for years, and once pitched it as a Star Wars movie to Lucasfilm, there is a lot of Star…
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Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
3 outta 5 Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom is apparently the final entry in the latest version of the DC Cinematic Universe that (retroactively) started with Man of Steel with yet another DC universe reboot on the horizon. The slate 2023 of DC films, Shazam: Fury of the Gods, The Flash and Blue Beetle, has…
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