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‘Aquaman’ gets big picture wrong, gets details wrong too
2/10 Last year, The Shape of Water, Guillermo del Toro’s fairy tale love story about banging a frog person, won best picture, and I warned at the time to be ready for an influx of movies about sexy frog people. … Continue reading
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Tagged "Master director" James Wan, #guillermo del toro, #james wan, #justice league, #the hobbit, 300, amber heard, aquaman, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Flashpoint, Jason Momoa, Nicole Kidman, patrick wilson, sexy frog people, The New York Times, The Shape of Water, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II
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Aspiring franchise-starter ‘Mile 22’ trips at the starting line
2/10 Mile 22 is from director/producer Peter Berg and star/producer Mark Wahlberg, the creative team that has dedicated itself recently to hyper-jingoistic movies like Lone Survivor and Patriots Day, and they aren’t all that bad. Deepwater Horizon in particular is … Continue reading
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Tagged #donald trump, #mark wahlberg, 300, 9/11, Band of Brothers, Deepwater Horizon, Dinesh D'SOuza, Donnie Wahlberg, Iko Uwais, Mile 22, Peter Berg, The Bourne Identity, The Raid
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‘Wonder Woman:’ the Good, the Bad and the Contextual
7/10 Wonder Woman is an uneven experience. At its worst, it’s frustrating and cliched and laugh-out-loud ridiculous, but at its best it’s majestic. In ancient times, after Ares awakened mankind’s warlike tendencies, Zeus created the amazons to appease them. The … Continue reading
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Tagged #alien, #gal gadot, #ghostbusters, #god of war, #kill bill, #man of steel, #Thor, #wonder woman, #zack snyder, 300, Band of Brothers, Captain America, Chris Pine, DAT ASS, DCEU, God bless Chris Pine, Jessica Jones, Neoliberalism, ramping, Saving Private Ryan, Sofia Coppola, Tony Stark
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On La La Land and fascist propaganda
As La La Land danced through theaters the past few months to the tune of $137.5 million domestic, a record-tying 14 Academy Award nominations and a Best Picture victory that’s been presumed to be in the bag for months now, … Continue reading
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Tagged #donald trump, #hollywood, #make america great again, #nostalgia, #oscars, #oscarssowhite, #ryan gosling, 12 Years a Slave, 300, Academy Awards, Amy Adams, Emma Stone, Fake News, fascist propaganda, fuck the Oscars, jazz, John Legend, La La Land, Moonlight, white-washing
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