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Daredevil TV Show: Great Series, But The Finale Has Some Problems...
Don't worry. I'm going to keep this spoiler-free.The concern here is the costume. What I loved about Daredevil was that it had a gritty and reasonably realistic feel to it. Sure there were outlandish...
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Caught Some Films From Last Year: Alan Turing Biopic, Loud Rude Jazz...
The Imitation Game (2014)I stayed away from this film longer than I might have because I heard that it depicted Alan Turing as a soviet spy. This is absolutely not the case. We've no reason to think...
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Starting A Tumblr....
Okay, so it hasn't escaped my notice that livejournal's becoming a pretty lonely place these days. While I've got plenty of people I still like to follow here, the communities are all pretty dead.As...
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Pixar's New Mind-Bending Movie Is Pretty Awesome!
Inside Out (2015)The recent criticism of Pixar has been that, having resorted to sequels to movies other than Toy Story, they are lacking the originality and the creativity we used to take for...
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Birdman Is A Bleeding Daft Film, But Pretty Entertaining All The Same...
Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)Alejandro González Iñárritu was known for a series of connecting-story films which were visually impressive and even well acted, but often didn't...
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Thai Film Facing Censorship Has Some Cool Scenes About Buddhist Monks And...
Syndromes and a Century (2006)A film dealing with some censorship issues in Thailand, but not actually a film with a clear message, plot and with some characters I find frankly unbelievable.One doctor...
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Classic Award-Winning Hitchcock-esque Movie Starring Sidney Poitiers: "In The...
In The Heat Of The Night (1967)I'd seen this once before, but I'd forgotten how fantastic it was. I think time (and perhaps teaching high school children about Martin Luther King has helped me to...
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Bully Apologism
There are a variety of kinds of people and contexts in which people will make excuses for bullying. It’s pretty shocking to me. And strangely some of the apologists were even bullied as children...
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Gena Rowlands' Performance Makes For A Seriously Engaging Film. But The Rest...
A Woman Under The Influence (1974)A film about a woman who behaves very strangely and just doesn't seem to fit in with everyone else.I heard this film mentioned in a review on Letterboxd and discovered...
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Julie Christie Is Still Awesome In "Away From Her", But The Script Feels...
Away From Her (2006)I had high expectations.for this one. Julie Christie is portraying dementia and in an early scene in a doctor's office we get a wonderful characterisation of a dementia patient...
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The Latest Marvel Superhero Movie Is A Bit Meh, But Not Really All That Bad...
I have mixed feelings on this one. I was very upset when Edgar Wright left this project because I was very excited about what he would do with it, but I heard from a friend that this was actually...
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Surprised There Wasn't More Praise For Felicity Jones, Or For The Film As A...
Wow, people can be seriously petty about awards nominees can't they? And once again I'm completely at odds with popular opinion. I thought Imitation Game was pretty damn great while I found Birdman...
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Citzen Kane Is Incredibly Over-Hyped - But Is Actually Great Anyway....
Citizen Kane (1942)Citizen Kane has long been synonymous with 'great movie'. When critic Mark Kermode asserted that Michael Bay could one day make Citizen Kane, he wasn't reporting that Platinum Dunes...
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"The Big Sleep" Has A Really Interesting Style, But The Plot Isn't Really All...
The Big Sleep (1946)This is my first Humphrey Bogart film. Sure, the Bogart movie most often recommended is "The Maltese Falcon", but this is the one I found in a bargain bin so there you go.To cut to...
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Dude Bros Party Massacre 3 Is Wonderfully Nuts, But Nowhere Near Consistently...
Dude Bro Party Massacre IIISpoofs can get carried away with making commentary on the original material and bringing in wacky randomness so they forget to be genuinely funny in their own right and sadly...
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"Find Me Guilty" Has A Remarkably Charismatic Vin Diesel, But Is Bizarrely...
Find Me Guilty (2006)Vin Diesel gives a surprisingly cool turn as a mafia stooge with a quirky persona who represents himself in a trial against the mafia as a whole. He's genuinely charming and funny...
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"Predator Dark Ages" Is Pretty Great By Predator Movie Standards, But It's...
BTW if the crusades have already begun, your film isn't actually set during the dark ages. Just saying...Alternative title: "Predator vs The Living History Association"Clearly the filmmakers had a lot...
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My Top 10 Favourite Movies of 2013 (Plus an honourable mention)
I'm actually quite proud to say that I haven't included Marvel Studios superhero movies in any of my 'very best movies' lists from 2008 to 2013. While I'm glad they are holding expensive disposable...
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"The Apostle" Has A Great Performance From Robert Duvall But A Very Confused...
A hypocritical Pentecostal preacher is a complete douche. His douchiness leads him to find himself on the run from the police.Once on the run, he decides to try to set up a Church before the police...
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American Gangster Showcases An Incredible Array Of Black Acting Talent....
American Gangster (2007)Possibly my favourite Ridley Scott film. Even as a sci-fi fan I've never been hugely fond of Ridley Scott’s far more lauded “Alien” or “Blade Runner”; two very atmospheric films...
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