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Haunted Mansion
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Read more: Haunted Mansion“Haunted Mansion” – Disney Scary. The Haunted Mansion ride at Disneyland was my favorite ride when I was a kid. I loved it so much that I would listen to my 78-rpm story-book record over and over until I fell asleep at night. And don’t think that I’ve grown out of it. I own Haunted…
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Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One – Judgement Day
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Read more: Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One – Judgement Day“Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” – Judgement Day. For more than seventy years, Hollywood has been fascinating and frightening people with various representations of artificial intelligence (AI). Sometimes the AI is good or well-intentioned, but more often the AI is sinister and trying to eradicate a few humans, if not all of humanity.…
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No Hard Feelings
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Read more: No Hard Feelings“No Hard Feelings” … Oh, the humanity. After reading the synopsis of No Hard Feelings I immediately wondered why an established and renowned actor like Jennifer Lawrence would choose to star in a film with all the hallmarks of a soiled diaper. It’s an understatement to say this kind of film is beneath Lawrence at…
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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
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Read more: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny“Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” – The last, last, last crusade. Dear Indiana Jones Fans, First, we’d like to thank you for supporting Indiana Jones. Without fans like you, Dr. Jones’ rich world universe of movies, comic books, novels, video games, pinball machines, a television series, a theme park ride, a stunt show,…
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
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Read more: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” – Great expectations. Five years ago, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse surprised us in theaters, then surprised us again by winning the Oscar for Best Animated Feature. Like all great films, it did something new, namely an animation style that looked like it leapt from the pages of a comic book. It…
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The Boogeyman (2023)
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Read more: The Boogeyman (2023)“The Boogeyman” – Reliving childhood fears. My first scary movie was the original Poltergeist. I was around eight years old at the time and my dad thought it would be a good idea to let me watch it. He was wrong. I distinctly remember being terrified by the scene where Robbie is dragged under the…
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The Little Mermaid (2023)
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Read more: The Little Mermaid (2023)“The Little Mermaid (2023)” – The Voice. With the release of the live-action remake of The Little Mermaid, Disney will almost assuredly see its last billion-dollar box office remake of a beloved classic. Like The Lion King, Aladdin, and Beauty and the Beast before it, The Little Mermaid will benefit from my generation reminiscing about…
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Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 3
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Read more: Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 3Audiences seem genuinely confused by the current slate of MCU offerings and what to expect going forward. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever were both quite good. But Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania was only okay, Ms. Marvel was a waste of time, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law did not…
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Sisu (2022)
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Read more: Sisu (2022)“Sisu” – Silence is golden. Aatami (Jorma Tommila), the main character in Sisu, has two lines of dialogue in the film’s entire ninety-minute runtime. Both of them occur at the film’s end and neither of them define the word sisu. According to another character, Aino (Mimosa Willamo), sisu is a Finnish concept that cannot be…
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Quasi
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Read more: QuasiComedy troupe Broken Lizard has been trying to recapture the magic of their one legitimate hit – Super Troopers – for twenty-two years and five movies. Hoping the sixth time is a charm, they bring us Quasi. As in Quasimodo, the hunchback of Notre Dame. And they bring it to us via Hulu. That’s just…