Category: -Movie Review
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First View Movie Review: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2016)
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Well now, wasn’t this a peculiar movie? Although that can be said for anything Director Tim Burton puts his hand to. Here he plies a Brit version of Professor Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters. Call it a creepy Hogwarts with fewer kids and less lessons. Superpowered, but not X-Men These kids aren’t being groomed as…
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Classic Movie Review – Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (1991)
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While Excellent Adventure was indeed splendiferously excellent, Bogus Journey, as it says on the box, is a bit bogus. It’s worth seeing — and seeing again right now — to prep for the new Bill & Ted trilogy capper Bill & Ted: Face the Music. What was Most Excellent As with Bill & Ted’s Excellent…
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New Movie Review – Mulan (Live action 2020)
The obvious first step with a look at a film like Mulan is to do a compare and contrast piece with the 1998 animated version. And, obviously, there will be a bit of that but, bottom line, it would be a bit like comparing and contrasting apples and tractor parts… Other than the name and…
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Scoob! and the Hanna-Barbera Cinematic Universe
Warning: contains spoilers for Scoob! I grew up on the cartoons of Hanna-Barbera. Before they moved them all to Boomerang, the USA Network used to air them on a show called Cartoon Express. Every summer, I went to Kings Island theme park where they had live mascots from the cartoons just like Disney World. The…
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First View Movie Review – Primer (2004)
Primer was made with $7,000 USD, filmed mostly with two guys talking in a garage, and took home the Grand Jury Prize from the 2004 Sundance Festival. It features time travel, paradoxes, and a very dense script full of jargon. Primer doesn’t give anything away, and is barely comprehensible upon the first viewing. And that’s…
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New Movie Review – Bill & Ted Face the Music (before a series rewatch)
Whoa. Bill & Ted 3: Face the Music didn’t suck. Not even decades later. The trilogy finale (one we never actually asked for) in Bill & Ted Face the Music is a worthy follow up to the wacky 80s and 90s time traveling com-fantasies, giving us two slacker characters we grew to love over the…
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Movie Review – The New Mutants
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This was a nice welcome back to the theater movie. It was fun and pulled me in very quickly, especially since this isn’t usually my kind of film. The first thing that comes to mind about The New Mutants was the chemistry. When you have a group of five characters, it’s usually difficult to pull…
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Movie Review – Tenet
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So it’s here…Tenet. The first big blockbuster to emerge following the outbreak of Plague 2.0. Was it worth the wait? Well… I thought so! Is it action packed? Yes. Is it beautifully shot? Yes. Is it well acted? Yes. Has Christopher Nolan managed to get all his hallmarks in? Yes. So what’s Tenet about? Hmmm……
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Movie Review – Naked (2017)
Another Groundhog Day themed film to discuss! As often with this trope, Naked takes a while to get going. Eventually you settle into the rhythm of the repetition and drop a few giggles along the way. With Groundhog Day movies, something has to happen in order to move the day forward, and that something resets…
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Movie Review – Unhinged
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This is a hard movie to watch. With everything going on in the world right now… Well, let me just say that if you think your opinion of people could use a kick in the pants, then this movie will do just that. But, that’s not to say the movie doesn’t have some (little) merit.…
