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Monthly Archives: September 2016
Deepwater Horizon brings harrowing blowout to vivid life
Deepwater Horizon is a triumph of traditional, fundamentally sound storytelling. It’s proof of the power of film to make any subject matter gripping. The movie revisits the April 2010 disaster aboard the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling unit that claimed 11 lives … Continue reading
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Tagged #kurt russell, #mark wahlberg, #Sorry, #tim burton, All right Mr DeMille I'm ready for my close up, British Petroleum, Close up, Coke, Deepwater Horizon, Deepwater Horizon is really really good, disaster movies, Gulf of Mexico, Handheld camerawork, Honey, John Malkovich, Kate Hudson, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Power of film, What a cast
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Snowden is an actual good movie
Snowden is a bit of a curve ball. The beginning is just a bit better than awful, but the end is just a bit worse than amazing. The film details the past 10 years in the life of CIA whistleblower Edward … Continue reading
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Tagged #bernie sanders, #biopic, #birth of a nation, #joseph gordon-levitt, #ron paul, CIA, Citizenfour, Edward Snowden, Edward Snowden document leaks, Edward Snowden is an American hero, Edward Snowden's treatment represents a monstrous betrayal by the Obama administration, Ewan MacAskill, Fuck the NSA, Glenn Greenwald, humanizing and giving emotional context to people who affected the entire world but who very few knew personally, Julian Assange, Laura Poitras, Lindsay Mills, Melissa Leo, Nicholas Cage is the single greatest actor who ever lived, Nicolas Cage, NSA, Oliver Stone, Pardon Edward Snowden, Rhys Ifans, Shailene Woodly, Snowden, Sully, Sully sux, Tom Wilkinson, Zachary Quinto
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Sully kicks Oscarbate season off to awful, tacky start
In January 2009, Chesley Sullenberger successfully ditched a commercial airliner in the Hudson River, averting what would have been a massive plane wreck. Now, Clint Eastwood has made things right by making a biopic about him that is just as big … Continue reading
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Tagged #9/11, #aaron eckhart, #biopic, #MiracleontheHudson, #steve jobs, #tom hanks, 2008 economic recession, 9/11 jokes, Artistic liscense, Bring along my coupon book whenever I'm on a date, Chesley Sullenberger, Clint Eastwood, housing market, Hudson River, I Instagram every meal I've had, Miracle on the Hudson, Never let you forget some favor I did for you, nice lies, Sully, Tacky
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Entropy on Labor Day — Davids rule the summer, Goliaths crash and burn
Labor Day weekend 2016 was bad. If you discount last summer’s holiday weekend that saw War Room take the weekend crown, you have to go all the way back to 2005 to find a Labor Day weekend that did worse than this … Continue reading
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Tagged #alice in wonderland, #anna kendrick, #apocalypse, #batman v superman, #days of future past, #deadpool, #disney pixar, #ghostbusters, #johnny depp, #pete's dragon, #pixels, #snow white and the huntsman, #sony, #star trek, #star trek beyond, #star trek into darkness, #star wars, #suicide squad, #the witch, #tim burton, #warcraft, #X-Men, alice through the looking glass, Bad Moms, Beauty and the Beast, Ben-Hur, cannibalism, Central Intelligence, CGI is bad, China loves WoW, Collision Course, Don't Breathe, Election Year, finding dory, ha ha ha ha Mila Kunis, Harry Potter, Hollywood is dumb, Ice Age, Independence Day, Jason Bourne, Kubo and the Two Strings, Laika, Legend of Tarzan what were they thinking, maleficent, me before you, Me Before You genuinely advocates suicide, Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, Mila Kunis, Movie budgets are too damn high, Nerve, Nerve is everything you've ever wanted in a hollywood movie, Nicholas Sparks, now you see me 2, out of the shadows, Resurgence, Sausage Party, Secret Life of Pets, Seth Rogen, Sexism and feminism be damned, Teenage mutant ninja turtles, the BFG, The Conjuring 2, The Last Stand, the lobster, the neon demon, The Purge, The Shallows, There is absolutely no reason to make a movie for more than $120 million, Transformers 4, War Dogs
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