Tag: reviews
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Scream 4 (2011 review)
4 out of 5 The weird, and interesting, part about Scream 4 is that it’s a sequel that is also a remake. It’s also remake where characters know that they’re in a remake. Hell, even one character empathically says to not screw with the original. It has meta-fictional wheels within wheels within meta-fictional wheels that…
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Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie
5 outta 5 Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie is a gloriously absurd film about yearning for stardom, missed opportunities, the weight of history, pranks, skydiving, documentaries, friendship and the validity of Back to the Future. It is a spin-off / continuation of the TV series dating all the way back to a webseries…
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Send Help
4 outta 5 Send Help is a thriller that is darkly funny as it follows two characters going increasingly bonkers. It has a cascading series of unfortunate events as the audience’s sympathies shift over the course of the film. There is a lot of yelling that gets funnier and intense, as the story which seems…
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All You Need is Kill
4 outta 5 All You Need is Kill is an anime adaption of the Japanese comic book which was previously adapted as the 2014 Tom Cruise starring film Edge of Tomorrow. Since it is about alien invasion time loops, it makes sense there would be multiple adaptations of this story. This anime has a very…
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Edge of Tomorrow (2014 review)
4 outta 5 Edge of Tomorrow is a fantastically zippy film which is quite an accomplishment since the story loops back in on itself yet finding something new each time. Directed by Doug Liman (Go, The Bourne Identity) it’s a great mash-up of sci-fi, D-Day war movies, and time travel narrative bending. Also if you’ve…
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Anaconda
3 outta 5 Anaconda is a decently funny meta take on the corny 1997 Anaconda film. In this movie the characters have a reverence for the original film and debate if they are making a remake, reboot, spiritual sequel, which signals what this is going to be. The chemistry of the leads are very fun,…
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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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Hamnet
4 outta 5 Hamnet is sort of a version of Shakespeare in Love but with only a dash of love at the start and then a whole lot of anguish, obsession, mourning with intense closeups of sadness and a lot of actors wailing in emotional pain. This is certainly a heavy experience that does eventually…
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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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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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