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Wakanda long ago, ‘Wakanda Forever’
7/10 Everyone in the world has been through a lot since Black Panther showed us a magical dream of uncolonized Africa in February 2018. Four years later in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, that dream is tainted by real-life tragedy among … Continue reading
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Tagged Angela Bassett, aquaman, Avengers: Endgame, Avengers: Infinity War, Black Panther, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Black Widow, Chadwick Boseman, coronavirus, half-finished Scorpion King-looking special effects, Letitia Wright, Martin Freeman, Marvel, MCU, Michael B. Jordan, Phase IV, Talokan, Tenoch Huerta, Wakanda
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Did they really do a full Academy Awards show for 2020?
I spent January dicking around, procrastinating on the usual year-end routines for a film writer. Going through those particular motions after 2020, acting like we’d gotten a full slate of movies, felt dishonest. It felt boring. I didn’t do a … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020, 93rd Academy Awards, Aaron Sorkin, Academy Awards, Another Round, Anthony Hopkins, Birds of Prey, Chadwick Boseman, Chloe Zhao, coronavirus, COVID-19 crisis, Daniel Kaluuya, David Fincher, Francis Mcdormand, Fred Hampton, Gary Oldman, Judas and the Black Messiah, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Mank, Minari, Mulan, Netflix, Nomadland, Oscars, Oscars 2021, Pieces of a Woman, Shia LaBeouf, Tenet, The Father, Trial of the Chicago 7, Vanessa Kirby
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Guy Ritchie must be stopped
2/10 Fourteen months into a lockdown that feels like it will never end even as it draws to a close, the world under coronavirus is still uncanny. Masks are still as mandatory as they ever were, work is still remote … Continue reading
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Tagged #the man from uncle, coronavirus, Guy Ritchie, Guy Ritchie must be stopped, Guy Ritchie Special, Heat, Jason Statham, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, knockoff Tarantino dialogue, Layer Cake, Matthew Vaughn, Snatch, Tarantino-Mann-Scorsese wannabe, Wrath of Man
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Dreamy ‘In the Earth’ kicks off the era of COVID reaction films
7/10 In the Earth is meant to be a better class of COVID-19 era horror, and it’s all right. It certainly has the pandemic on its mind, at least. In the throes of a global pandemic, park ranger Alma (Ellora … Continue reading
‘Chaos Walking’ solid, unique and urgent
8/10 Chaos Walking is a troubled, inventive exploration of masculine crisis and fear of the self that executes its main hook cleverly and evocatively. It’s a valuable meditation for an era of men inundated by stories of our peers’ abuses … Continue reading
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