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‘Fifty Shades’ series peters out
2/10 So this is where Harry Potter ended up. It’s kind of astonishing to think about it in those terms, but when you take everything else about the past 20 years into account, doesn’t that seem right? With the series … Continue reading
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Tagged #dakota johnson, #fifty shades of grey, #jamie dorman, #sam taylor-johnson, #twilight, creepy rape contract, E.L. James, Fifty Shades Darker, Fifty Shades Freed, Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, James Foley, Kelly Marcel, kinky fuckery, Niall Leonard
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‘The Cloverfield Paradox’ is garbage
1/10 Paramount Pictures decided just a few weeks ago that selling The Cloverfield Project to Netflix would be more profitable than releasing it in theaters, and they were almost certainly right. While Cloverfield and 10 Cloverfield Lane rode critical acclaim … Continue reading
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Tagged #alien, #gugu mbatha-raw, #Netflix, #paramount pictures, Danield Bruhl, Superbowl LLI, The Cloverfield Paradox
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‘Winchester’s’ sharp story cut down by dull scares
5/10 Winchester is wonderfully written and pretty cleverly directed, but gets major points off for its technical problems. In 1906 San Francisco, psychologist Eric Price (Jason Clarke) has been driven to despair and drug abuse by his wife’s untimely death. … Continue reading
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Tagged #civil war, #helen mirren, #jason Clarke, Spierig brothers, Winchester
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‘The Last Key’ decent, dragged down by ‘Insidious’ hallmarks
4/10 You thought I’d forgotten about Insidious, didn’t you? No, we remember. Even if no one else- What?! It opened at almost $30 million? Guess January isn’t the dead zone it used to be. Insidious: The Last Key sees franchise … Continue reading
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Tagged #it follows, #the witch, gay narrative, Insidious, Lin Shayne, The Last Key
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‘Phantom Thread’ arrives in wide release
9/10 Undoubtedly the coolest title of 2017, Phantom Thread, has finally arrived in theaters. Why is it called that? Why did a movie with artistic heavyweights Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Day-Lewis take this long to get here? Who knows. … Continue reading
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