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All-world lead can’t elevate hum-drum ‘Tomb Raider’
6/10 They’ve remade Tomb Raider. They’ve remade everything, so that makes sense. Lara Croft (Alicia Vikander) is living a hard-knock life in London as a courier. It’s tough to feel bad for her though since there’s a fortune waiting for … Continue reading
Light Between Oceans delivers on promising cast, tough to enjoy anyway
I’ve never seen a movie that started this slow get this much slower. Based on M.L. Stedman’s 2012 novel, The Light Between Oceans follows Tom Sherbourne (Michael Fassbender) as he returns home to Australia from World War I. Looking to get away … Continue reading
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Tagged #Alicia Vikander, #michael fassbender, Blue Valentine, Derek Cianfrance, Excuses, Light Between Oceans is too slow, Light Between Oceans rewarding visually rich, Nerve, Nicholas Sparks, Nicholas Sparks knockoff, The Light Between Oceans, the neon demon, The Place Beyond the Pines
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The Bourne Dumpster Fire
Wow. Bring a barf bag. Jason Bourne begins with its title character, David Webb John Cena Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) scrounging a living in underground bareknuckle boxing matches in Southeastern Europe. He’s called out of hiding by his former CIA handler, Nicky Parsons … Continue reading
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I’m only doing this because of the Oscar noms: The Danish Girl
It’s the most cynical thing in the world. Former Oscar winners? Check. Based on a true story set in the early 1900s? Check. Gay* person that dies? Check. The Danish Girl was set up to be one of the most insufferably … Continue reading
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Tagged #Alicia Vikander, #birdman, #brokeback mountain, #carol, #dallas buyers club, #eddie redmayne, #ex machina, #gay people that die, #homophobia, #jared leto, #jupiter ascending, #lana wachowski, #michael keaton, #milk, #oscar noms, #oscars, #pronouns, #robbed, #sexism, #the academy, #the danish girl, #the wachowskis, #tom hooper, #trans people that die, #would you fuck me, Theory of Everything
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The most important female characters of 2015
Something that escaped mention in the previous year-end post is that 2015 was also a fantastic year for women in film, filled with strong characters and stronger economic motivations to serve a female audience. Given that I completely forgot about it … Continue reading
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Tagged #Alicia Vikander, #brie larson, #bryce dallas howard, #charlize theron, #daisy ridley, #dakota johnson, #domhnal gleeson, #ex machina, #feminism, #fifty shades of grey, #fury road, #jamie dorman, #john boyega, #jurassic park, #jurassic world, #mad max, #masculism, #Oscar Isaac, #prattprattpratt, #rape culture, #room, #star wars, #the force awakens, #tom hardy, #we are not things, #wheresrey
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