Category: Movies
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Wonder Woman 1984
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Read more: Wonder Woman 1984Life is good but it can be better Maxwell Lord(played by Pedro Pascal), says the above line multiple times in the film and this can be easily used to describe the film “WW84 was decent but it could have been so much more“ Wonder Woman 1984 was a highly anticipated sequel to the first Wonder…
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Dogtooth (2009)
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Read more: Dogtooth (2009)The best way to see the breakthrough feature from Greek filmmaker Giorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster, The Favourite) is to go in without knowing anything about its storyline. If you have not yet seen Dogtooth, I strongly encourage you to stop reading this review and watch it first, preferably without looking up anything else about it.…
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Greenland
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Read more: Greenland“Greenland” – Wanna get away? Greenland is the perfect movie for 2020. It includes needless violence; an idiotic treatment of science, government, and the military; and the end of the world. All I wanted was a big, dumb, loud, fun disaster movie to escape into for a couple of hours. Instead, I was reminded of…
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The Bishop’s Wife: Another Look At The Making Of A Great Film
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Read more: The Bishop’s Wife: Another Look At The Making Of A Great FilmThe Bishop’s Wife puts you in mind of another bit of magical fantasy, Portrait of Jenny. Both films are based on novels by Robert Nathan and both enjoy the idea that a charming almost magical personality can enter your life at the most unexpected moments. The obviously banal aspects to the story are simple. Bishop…
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An Open Letter to David Fincher
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Read more: An Open Letter to David FincherMr Fincher, I must confess this would have been a fan letter to your father had circumstances been different. Mank enjoys a superb screenplay bearing the stamp of its subject matter. It gave us a wonderful sense of period, Hollywood, the studios of the 30s. The Paramount writer’s room had the feel of the press…
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Four Christmases
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Read more: Four ChristmasesTwas the week before Christmas, and all through our house, Not a brain cell was stirring, I felt like a louse.
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Period Of Adjustment
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Read more: Period Of AdjustmentTennessee Williams is undoubtedly best known for A Streetcar Named Desire and other Southern tragedies like The Glass Menagerie and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. His is not a name that many would associate with warm, often comedic Christmas movies like those of, say, John Hughes, Chris Columbus, or even Frank Capra. Still, his…
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A Meowy Christmas Vacation
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Read more: A Meowy Christmas VacationWhen I reviewed the worst Christmas movie ever made, A Meowy Christmas, I had no idea of the massive amount of whiney butt-hurt that would be forthcoming from the movie creators, Steve Rudzinski and the writer of that horrid mess, Bill Murphy. This was 3 years ago and long forgotten until a got yet another…
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The Christmas That Almost Wasn’t
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Read more: The Christmas That Almost Wasn’tChristmas is fast approaching and another year of watching and reviewing Christmas movies is winding down. This movie is yet another recommendation from one of our fine readers. The Christmas That Almost Wasn’t should have been named The Christmas Movie That Wasn’t. So, what went wrong with this wonderful Santa Save Christmas Movie? The short…
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Over The Moon (Netflix)
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Read more: Over The Moon (Netflix)“Over the Moon” – It’s sort of a myth. After the very excellent Klaus last year, I was hoping for a good follow up from Netflix in Over the Moon. By the end of the film, I found myself explaining to my son what is a MacGuffin and why the plot’s urgency makes no sense…