Tag: movies
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The Accountant (2016 review)
3 outta 5 The Accountant features high-stakes accounting, number crunching and bone breaking violence, which sort of evens the whole thing out. The flick is a bit of a slow burn, some plot threads don’t have a satisfying resolution, it’s too long, and lingers a bit too much on secondary characters anguished monologues. But if…
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Sinners
5 outta 5 Sinners deftly balances a musical, jazz, history about life in the US South in 1930s and turns into an incredibly intense vampire movie. Twisting from one genre to another has been done before; the closest comparison is obviously From Dusk Till Dawn that turns from a road trip crime movie to vampire…
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The Amateur
3 outta 5 The Amateur is a formulaic throwback with some cool spy revenge bits and lots of the cool moments are already in the trailer. Lead actor Rami Malek brings weird energy to potentially seem like his character can snap at any moment. This follows a tried-and-true revenge movie formula that doesn’t break any…
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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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Snow White
3 outta 5 Snow White is yet another in Disney’s seemingly endless parade of Live Action Remakes, and even though the original Snow White and the Seven Dwarves is a technical classic that moved the animation medium forward, it isn’t exactly resonating with audiences for today. For proof, one has to look at the remake’s…
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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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Black Bag
4 outta 5 Black Bag is a spy thriller that doesn’t go very hard on any spectacle “spy movie” moments, and this film even has a James Bond in it. It is more about the lies that people in espionage tell each other. There isn’t exactly any firearms going off except for a brief 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: The First Avenger (2011 review)
4 outta 5 While Captain America: The First Avenger does threaten to drown in patriotism at times, overall it’s a neat WWII-era twist on the superhero formula. And the last 20 minutes downright rock. Also: Hugo Weaving as a bad guy is never a bad idea. And if you know your Marvel Cinematic Universe Easter…
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