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‘Free Guy’ is a very strange movie
2/10 Movies based on personal senses of humor are always hit-or-miss, and Free Guy is a huge, wild miss. In the open-world video game Free City, Guy (Ryan Reynolds, who also produces), a non-player character who works as a teller … Continue reading
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Tagged Deadpool, Deadpool 2, Disney, Disney-Fox merger, Fox, Free Guy, Hitman's Bodyguard, Jodie Comer, Once Upon a Deadpool, Ryan Reynolds
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Make a different movie.
Suicide Squad (David Ayer, 2016) hit theaters after more than a year of fanfare, polarizing audiences who loved and hated it for a wide breadth of reasons. Five years later to the exact weekend, The Suicide Squad (James Gunn, 2021), … Continue reading
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Tagged David Ayer, Don't just scrape the mustard off, Guardians of the Galaxy, HBOmax, James Gunn, Kick-Ass, Make a different movie, Make a movie that doesn't suck, Suicide Squad, Suicide Squad (Ayer 2016), The Suicide Squad, The Suicide Squad (Gunn 2021), Warner Bros.
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It’s OK if you didn’t get ‘The Green Knight’
9/10 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight completes the evolution of distributor A24 from a distribution conglomerate, which simply bought festival films to pump and flip into theaters, to a production company, to a brand and finally to its own … Continue reading
‘Jungle Cruise’ is a boring, homosexist dumpster fire
1/10 Jungle Cruise is a limp imitation of past Disney success that nobody seemed to know what to do with. 1917, as diseases that were responsible for a third of all military casualties in the Great War ravage the trenches- … Continue reading
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Tagged Disney, Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Indiana Jones, Jack Whitehall, Jesse Plemons, Jungle Cruise, Pirates of the Caribbean
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Stop what you’re doing and go see ‘Snake Eyes’
9/10 Snake Eyes is the movie people like to pretend MCU movies still are. An underground street fighter known only as Snake Eyes (Henry Golding) drifts from job to job down the West Coast looking for the man who killed … Continue reading