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Improve your life with ‘Marcel the Shell with Shoes On’
10/10 Sometimes, a fresh pair of eyes is all it takes. After his marriage dissolves, documentarian Dean Fleischer Camp (himself. Camp also writes, directs, edits and produces) moves into an Airbnb, but discovers it is already inhabited by Marcel (Jenny … Continue reading
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Tagged Jenny Slate, Marcel the Shell, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
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Old Marvel content farmers reap what they sow in ‘The Gray Man’
2/10 I’m now having to realize how strong my instinct is to spell gray with an “e” and looking at the history of the two acceptable spellings and thinking about what a trash language English is, and it’s all over … Continue reading
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Westerns can be scary too
8/10 Writer/director/producer Jordan Peele couldn’t resist releasing Nope, his follow-up to a film about doppelgangers riddled with 11:11 imagery, on a Friday the 22nd in 2022. Even his release dates are ripe with metatext. Agua Dulce, California- OJ and Em … Continue reading
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Tagged Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out, Jordan Peele, Keke Palmer, Nope, Us
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Where the Crawdads slam ass
6/10 Where the Crawdads Sing is the first movie to try to fill the vacuum left by the Fifty Shades movie franchise, or certainly the first theatrical release, but anyone who watched those movies can tell you that’s a hole … Continue reading
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Tagged Fifty Shades of Grey, Nicolas Sparks movies, Where the Crawdads Sing
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‘Blazing Saddles’ remake!
8/10 For several years, “you couldn’t make a Mel Brooks movie today” has been a common refrain among people who think American culture has gotten too sensitive, with arguments particularly revolving around his 1974 classic Blazing Saddles, which slung racial … Continue reading