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A Disturbance in the Force: How the Star Wars Holiday Special Happened 2023
Starts strongly with a retrospective of 70s variety and the context from which the holiday special arose, but becomes repetitive and much less interesting in the second half. For the less than super-invested, it's an overlong DVD extra.
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Black Adam 2022
The question that “Black Adam” poses is a simple one: What happens when Hollywood’s most risk-averse movie star collides with Hollywood’s most risk-averse movie genre? The answer provided by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s depressingly inevitable (and inevitably depressing) foray into the superhero-industrial complex is, of course, even simpler: Exactly what you’d expect. Only worse.
All due respect to whatever unique and illustrious history Black Adam may have developed since his DC Comics debut in 1945, but the lifeless spectacle that…
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Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga 2020
Every Will Ferrell movie I have seen except for Stranger Than fiction has been a reskin of the exact same movie, including this one.
Here’s the formula-
- Main character is a goofy man child who dresses goofily and has a funny haircut
- Goofy man child has a hidden talent that nobody else sees in him
Goofy man child is ridiculed by his family as a child for not being good at anything
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Marie Antoinette 2006
Genuinely great. Loved the revisionist angle, thought it gave the whole picture life. Beautiful lead performance from Kristen Dunst. Feels like it was a very personal project for Sofia Coppola.
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Bombshell 2019
Full disclosure, I seem to be the target audience for this. Big fan of the director Jay Roach, the cast, and topical hot button movies. Your conservative relative may not see this and that's too bad because it's not about left and right. "Bombshell" is about a culture of toxicity where sexual harassment is too engrained and integrated. It's a man's world something that people like Harvey Weinstein and Roger Ailes know too well. On the other side of things…
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What Men Want 2019
Okay so, last night I got an hour into the film and turned it off. But not because I was bored, but because this movie was so fantastic that I needed to watch it in two parts just to digest it. My God was I wrong about this movie in my last review.
Tracey Morgan's character made me laugh with every word that he mumbled in that silly voice of his haha. It also turns out that Pete Davidson wasn't…
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Tag 2018
Well this is gonna be a weird review to write....
Full disclosure, this movie is based on my dad.
He’s one of the guys that’s been playing tag for 30 years. Because of this I was able to go to the world premiere tonight, which was insane (I met Eric Andre and nearly cried). Suffice it to say, I never thought my dad playing tag would lead to something this big.
But yeah, here we are.
I’ll fully admit I…
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The Hurricane Heist 2018
Great fun once you understand just what you are letting yourself in for, as a film it is pure unadulterated rubbish and clearly aware of it. The kind of big dumb fun that passes 100 minutes and leaves you with a smile. In the age of 250 million dollar marvel blockbusters that look like made for TV films it's impressive to see a 45 million dollar film that actually looks like a film, every cent is onscreen and dumb as it gets The Hurricane Heist never fails to entertain.
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Cashback 2006
Film #39 of The December Project
I contend that Cashback is a masterpiece.When I joined Letterboxd, I noticed there was a lot of controversy over the ogling of naked women in a grocery store. It's supposed to be a fantasy, so I don't get what the big deal is. He isn't a pervert or a voyeur. He's an art student, searching for the message he wants to send through his work. He settles on championing the female form,…
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