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New wave of steadycam action continues with ‘Atomic Blonde’
8/10 Atomic Blonde is an intentionally confusing, icy cool synthpop-noir with some fun gender reversals that turns what was a unique action franchise into a growing movement in the genre. In November 1989, Berlin is aflame with civil unrest as … Continue reading
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Tagged #charlize theron, #james mcavoy, #john wick, Action, Atomic Blonde, Chad Stahelski, Jason Bourne, John Leitch, synthpop noir, The Coldest City
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McAvoy, Taylor-Joy shine in ‘Split’
Split is a sharp, tight movie about a trapped girl and her insane captor, except when it isn’t. The movie starts with social outcast Casey Cook (Anya Taylor-Joy) forced to ride home with two of her much more well-adjusted classmates, Claire … Continue reading
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Tagged #anya taylor-joy, #james mcavoy, #m. night shyamalan, MNSCU, Split
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X-Men: Apocalypse a substandard addition to an otherwise improving franchise
Steven James @StevenLeeJames X-Men: Apocalypse isn’t a terrible film, but I wish it did not exist. En Sabah Nur (Oscar Isaac), the world’s first mutant, was born in Egypt and worked his way to the status of living god. The movie … Continue reading
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Tagged #b movie, #days of future past, #deadpool, #game of thrones, #hugh jackman, #james mcavoy, #jennifer lawrence, #michael fassbender, #olivia munn, #onelasttime, #Oscar Isaac, #wolverine, #X-Men, #x-men: apocalypse, #xmenapocalypse, age of apocalypse, anal sex, evan peters, first class, mr sinister, olivia munn's internalized sexism, re-writes, Rose Byrne, sophie turner, terrible visual effects, why you waste my time, wolverine 3, x-men apocalypse wastes so much time
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Beta decay: Rogue Cut a disappointment
X-Men: Days of Future Past, with its cyclone of conflicts and powerful, emotional rejection of violence quickly became one of my favorite superhero movies last May, but it is far from a perfect film. There are bad pacing problems in the … Continue reading
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Tagged #anna paquin, #colossus, #days of future past, #hugh jackman, #ian mckellan, #iceman, #james mcavoy, #jennifer lawrence, #magneto, #michael fassbender, #mystique, #nicholas hoult, #patrick stewart, #professor X, #rebecca romijn, #rogue, #shadowcat, #shawn ashmore, #the rogue cut, #wolverine, #X-Men, #x-men: days of future past -- the rogue cut, X-men: Days of Future Past
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