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I’m not in love with ‘Coco’
6/10 I wouldn’t call Coco a misstep or an unwanted hug, but it’s not a very strong film. In the fictional Santa Cecilia, Mexico, the Riveras are a family of renowned cobblers going all the way back to Mamá Imelda … Continue reading
Posted in Entropy
Tagged #alejandro inarritu, #benjamin bratt, #Disney, #inside out, #justice league, #pixar, #spectre, #the good dinosaur, #the incredibles, #up, #wall-e, Alfonso Cuaron, Anthony Gonzalez, Book of Life, Cars, Coco, Death puppet grand moff Tarkin, Dia de Muertos, Gael Garcia Bernal, John Lasseter, lesser Pixar, Monsters Inc., rogue one, Toy Story, Uncanny Valley, unwanted hugs
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2016 Academy Awards fallout
#Oscarssowhite dominates the ceremony The Academy Awards are normally awful, but this year, they traded in the usual tedium for a three-hour apology for #oscarssowhite that managed to cast a pall over the entire ceremony. It’s easy to see why … Continue reading
Posted in White Noise
Tagged #affirmative action, #alejandro inarritu, #annie hall, #argo, #birdman, #chariots of fire, #cheryl boone isaacs, #chris rock, #drive, #eddie murphy, #ex machina, #Fantastic Four, #forsest gump, #fury road, #george miller, #heaven's gate, #it follows, #its on us, #joe biden, #lady gaga, #leonardo dicaprio, #mad max, #michael fassbender, #morgan freeman, #oscars, #oscarssowhite, #pulp fiction, #raiders of the lost arc, #ride along 2, #sam smith, #samuel l jackson, #sicario, #spotlight, #star wars, #suicide squad, #the artist, #the revenant, #tom hardy, Transformers
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Audacious production sunk by poor writing, editing decisions
And for his followup to last year’s Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay and should-have-been Best Actor winner, the astounding Birdman, acclaimed director Alejandro G. Iñárritu takes his crew to the northern edges of the world in the Western Canadian wilds to … Continue reading
Posted in Entropy
Tagged #alejandro inarritu, #birdman, #daredevil, #leonardo dicaprio, #oscar bait, #oscar season, #revenantmovie, #the revenant, #tom hardy
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The Möbius strip: Star Wars predictably takes over the Internet
Summarizing the group threatening to boycott The Force Awakens for daring to cast a black man as the lead — The Hollywood Reporter With the third trailer’s release coinciding with tickets coming available, Fandango spiked to seven times its normal peak traffic … Continue reading
Posted in The Möbius strip
Tagged #alejandro inarritu, #american hustle, #bella lugosi, #bill cosby, #break the internet, #burnt, #dracula, #eddie redmayne, #government man, #jennifer lawrence, #jessica chastain, #kim jong un, #michael fassbender, #praise our sacred leader, #sony, #star wars, #the force awakens, #the hunger games, #the martian, #the revenant, #tom hanks, #underworld, #underworld 5, #wage gap, bradley cooper
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