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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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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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On ‘Christopher Robin,’ ‘Eighth Grade’ and parents making movies about children
2/10 Oh my shitting God, they killed Christopher Robin’s parents too. Disney’s Christopher Robin starts with the title character (Ewan McGregor, Orton O’Brien as a child) being sent to dreary, grey boarding school and necessarily abandoning his fuzzy friends that he … Continue reading
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