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The most important movies of 2019
Annual top 10 lists are dumb and arbitrary and I hate them, even as I’ve started doing them. We can do better here. Instead of a static list of 10 favorites, 10 peanuts with which to pack the year away … Continue reading
Posted in White Noise
Tagged #Disney, #martin scorsese, #quentin tarantino, #robert eggers, #spotlight, #star wars, #the lion king, 21 Bridges, A Hidden Life, Aladdin, Ari Aster, Avengers: Endgame, Avengers: Infinity War, Bird Box, Black and Blue, Box Office Mojo, Captain Marvel, Dark Waters, Dumbo, Frozen II, It: Chapter 2, Jojo Rabbit, Joker, Jordan Peele, Josh and Benny Safdie, Maleficent 2, Midsommar, Official Secrets, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Parasite, Queen and Slim, Roma, Spider-Man: Far From Home, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, The Disney Empire, The Irishman, The Lighthouse, The Mandalorian, The Report, Toy Story 4, Uncut Gems, Us
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The bubble bursts- on Moviepass and the rise of monopoly-class movies
When I started doing these Labor Day summer wrapups five years ago, what I identified — and what plenty of other people identified — was a crashing bubble at the domestic box office, and after a rebound year in 2018, … Continue reading
Posted in White Noise
Tagged #3D, #avatar, #Avengers, #black panther, #Disney, #george lucas, #iron man, #lucasfilm, #marvel studios, #pixar, #the lion king, Aladdin, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Avengers: Endgame, Business Insider, Captain Marvel, Crazy Rich Asians, Dark Phoenix, Endgame, Frozen II, Incredibles 2, Infinity War, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Labor Day, Men in Black International, Midsommar, Monopoly class movies, MoviePass, Spider-Man: Far From Home, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker, Toy Story 4, Us
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‘Aladdin’ is one of the worst movies I have ever seen
2/10 As Disney plumbs ever deeper into its vault of classic- and renaissance-era features to remake live — or, “live” — it will inevitably begin to withdraw properties that will take more effort to translate into live-action or that make … Continue reading
Tim Burton’s ‘Dumbo’ nobody’s baby
3/10 When a movie is advertised as “from the imagination of Tim Burton,” you tend to go into it expecting a real blue-blooded Tim Burton passion project, one that he really took ownership of and fought hard to get the … Continue reading
Posted in Entropy
Tagged #alice in wonderland, #Disney, #michael keaton, #the lion king, #tim burton, Aladdin, bad, charlie and the chocolate factory, Collin Farrell, Danny DeVito, Derek Frey, Dumbo, Ehren Kruger, Eva Green, it's a goddamn goldmine, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, Nico Parker, over-produced, The Ring, Transformers, ugly, under-directed
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