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‘Greenland’ strong, stirring, timely
8/10 I’d been greatly looking forward to Greenland since its first trailer as an easy target for mocking, but spent significantly less time laughing at it than I was prepared to. This is a good, affecting movie. Atlanta- construction engineer … Continue reading
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Tagged #gerard butler, #morena baccarin, coronavirus, Geostorm, God's not Dead, Greenland, The Day After Tomorrow
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‘Mank’ a decent Welles impression at the expense of a Fincher movie
7/10 Mank is a fine film and certainly more than you could expect from a typical Oscar-season offering, but something’s missing. March 1940, Victorville, California- Outcast Hollywood screenwriter Herman J. “Mank” Mankiewicz (Gary Oldman), confined to his bed with a … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Dance, Citizen Kane, David Fincher, Donald Trump, Fight Club, Gary Oldman, HBOmax, Mank, Netflix, Orson Welles, Warner Bros, William Randolph Hearst
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‘Broken Hearts Gallery’ an authentic offering for date nights that aren’t happening
8/10 As Tenet stalked through the summer searching for a suitable release date, it had a couple of ambitious satellites following it. Unhinged, the premier film for Solstice Studios, was determined to beat the blockbuster back into theaters. Another studio, … Continue reading
Careening off the international tightrope of ‘Mulan’
2/10 $30. This ugly, fascy movie costs $30. China has been on track for several decades to become the dominant economy in the world. This has affected the film industry like any other, as China’s burgeoning theatrical distribution system has … Continue reading
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Tagged #black panther, #china, #china all the time, #Disney, #donald trump, #i love china, #star wars, Bob Iger, Great Wall of China, Hong Kong, Hong Kong action cinema, Hong Kong protests, Liu Yifei, Mulan, The Great Wall, The Wall, Uyghur genocide
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Don’t try to understand ‘Tenet,’ just feel it
9/10 God damn it’s good to be back at the movies. A fresh-faced protagonist (John David Washington) is promoted from the CIA to an international secret society called Tenet. He is introduced to “inverted” munitions, bullets made at an unknown … Continue reading
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