Category: -Movie Review
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Sundance Film Festival Movie Review – One for the Road
When Bong Joon Ho won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film last year for Parasite, he said, “”Once you overcome the 1-inch-tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to so many more amazing films.” I love this sentiment. As a teenager, I was lucky to have a mother willing to take me…
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Star Trek Movies and the Bechdel Test — How do they stand up after all this time?
I wrote an article on how the Star Wars films stood up to the Bechdel Test, which is a simple measurement to determine whether any named female characters have a conversation about something other than men. This is not a stance for feminist debate so much as an observation. For what it’s worth, lets dive…
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Sundance Film Festival Movie Review – Marvelous and the Black Hole
What were you like at thirteen? This film may bring back some of the pain and frustration of your earlier years. Yet it’s a fun, uplifting watch. Perhaps this year’s Peanut Butter Falcon. Miya Cech plays Sammy, a teenager living with her father and sister and coping with her mother’s death. When she’s forced to…
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Children’s Book Review – Tucker’s Countryside (A sequel to The Cricket in Times Square)
Tucker in Tucker’s Countryside (1969) is the mouse from the extraordinary and renowned children’s book The Cricket in Times Square. Here the mouse gets his own heroic tail. Or, er…tale. In Cricket — the origin novel (and animated children’s special) — small and lonely Chester Cricket gets accidentally trapped in the New York Square Subway…
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Movie Review – Godzilla vs. Kong
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[No Spoilers] Thank gawd. It didn’t suck. Godzilla vs King Kong looked epic in the previews and I’d say it lived up to expectation. Which is a relief because the last movie, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, was pretty awful, especially the plot and acting, and writing, and the monster fight scenes didn’t wow me…
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Thoughts on Monster Universe Rewatch before Godzilla vs Kong
I did a rewatch of Godzilla 2014, Kong: Skull Island, and Godzilla: King of the Monsters in preparation for the release of Godzilla vs King Kong this week (March 31st) in theaters and on HBO Max. Godzilla 2014 When Godzilla came out in 2014 I gave it a C. It was enjoyable, but lacking. Upon…
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Sundance Film Festival Movie Review – How It Ends
If you knew it was the last day before the world ended, how would you spend it? That’s the question How It Ends explores. And the answers are funny, touching, and surprising. The movie reminded me of the first half of Seeking a Friend For the End of the World, which which deals with similar…
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Sundance Film Festival Movie Review – Mass
Mass may be the most emotional film you sit through this year. But it’s worth it to see four great actors at the top of their game. In this powerful movie, the parents of a school shooter and the parents of one of his victims meet to try to get some closure. It’s an…
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Movie Review – Nobody
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Nobody totally exceeded my expectations. I’ve been waiting for this to come out and had high hopes. Usually when I’m really looking forward to a movie, it sucks. Not last night. I had so much fun watching it doing my job was hard. Where to begin? The music choices were spot on and added a…
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Godzilla vs Kong — Get ready for the Monsterverse finale with these modern-era Kaiju and Kong reviews
Godzilla vs Kong opens next week and at RunPee we’re very excited. Kong, the King himself, has a very special place in our hearts, since when RunPee Dan and I saw Peter Jackson’s King Kong in 2005 we came up with the entire idea for RunPee (go during the Valley of the Bugs scene —…
