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Stop what you’re doing and go see ‘Snake Eyes’
9/10 Snake Eyes is the movie people like to pretend MCU movies still are. An underground street fighter known only as Snake Eyes (Henry Golding) drifts from job to job down the West Coast looking for the man who killed … Continue reading
The MCU you loved has been gone for a while now
6/10 It’s finally here! After almost 20 years of development, 11 years of the character existing in the background, seven years of that with an infamously mangled backstory, and more than a year of pandemic-related delay, Black Widow finally has … Continue reading
Erstwhile ‘Gone Girl’ heiress ‘Woman in the Window’ never stood a chance
3/10 The Woman in the Window releases on Netflix May 14, 2021, almost a year to the day after its planned May 15, 2020 release date. The COVID-19 crisis both ruined its theatrical release and ruined the movie itself, which … Continue reading
Posted in Entropy
Tagged 20th Century Fox, Amy Adams, Disney, Gary Oldman, Gone Girl, Julianne Moore, Netflix, The Girl on the Train, The Woman in the WIndow
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A quarantine with The Master
Several years ago now, I started systemically moving through the work of high-profile directors. This is part of the path from loud movie nerd to legitimate film scholar – film scholars actually study film, they don’t just write about it. … Continue reading
Posted in A less chaotic state, White Noise
Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, David O. Selznick, Dial M for Murder, Disney, Dr. No, Foreign COrrespondent, Francois Truffaut, Frenzy, Gone with the Wind, Halloween, I Confess, Independence Day, Jamaica Inn, Lifeboat, Marnie, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, North by Northwest, Psycho, Rear Windo, Rebecca, Rope, Saboteur, Shadow of a Doubt, Silence of the Lambs, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Strangers on a Train, Studio system, The 39 Steps, The Birds, The Dark Knight, The Lady Vanishes, The Paradine Case, The Trouble with Harry, Tippi Hedren, To Catch a Thief, Torn Curtain, Under Capricorn, Vertigo
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‘Raya’ another perfectly enjoyable product of an exhausting, cynical machine
7/10 Outside the theater for Raya and the Last Dragon, a survey company stooge hands out questionnaires in cheap plastic bags meant to reassure moms who don’t really understand how COVID-19 spreads. When asked, he tells me all the big … Continue reading
Posted in Entropy, White Noise
Tagged Awkwafina, Disney, Disney+, Kelly Marie Tran, My Little Pony, Raya and the Last Dragon
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