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Don’t try to understand ‘Tenet,’ just feel it
9/10 God damn it’s good to be back at the movies. A fresh-faced protagonist (John David Washington) is promoted from the CIA to an international secret society called Tenet. He is introduced to “inverted” munitions, bullets made at an unknown … Continue reading
‘Dunkirk’ a white-knuckled thriller
9/10 Dunkirk isn’t just a movie, it’s a sensory experience. The film tells the story of the Miracle of Dunkirk, the 1940 British operation in which 338,226 soldiers who had been pinned down at Dunkirk beach after losing the Battle … Continue reading
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Tagged #christopher nolan, #memento, #the hurt locker, #tom hardy, Dunkirk, Inception, Miracle of Dunkirk
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Inferno is one third of a great movie, then it gets boring
Oh, that’s right, Sony owns the rights to this series. That explains it. In Inferno, the third film adaptation of Dan Brown’s novels, Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) returns to bring more obscure Catholic conspiracy theories into the mainstream. This go around starts … Continue reading
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Tagged #memento, #ron howard, #tom hanks, Angels & Demons, Ben Foster, Catholic conspiracy trivia, Catholicism, CERN, Dan Brown, Dante, Dante's Inferno, Felicity Jones, Holocene Extinction, Inception music, Inferno, Irrfan Khan, Large Hadron Collider, Mary Sue, Power fantasy, Robert Langdon is kind of dumb, The Da Vinci Code, The World Health Organization does not have a police force, World Health Organization
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The Möbius strip: Mockingjay disappoints, new releases disappoint further
Part two of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay won the weekend with maybe the first disappointing $100 million opening ever. The film was predicted for north of $120 million. Other new releases, The Night Before and Secret in Their Eyes, also underperformed with just $10.1 million and $6.6 million, respectively- … Continue reading
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Tagged #charlie chaplin, #charlie sheen, #criterion collection, #david cronenberg, #dustin hoffman, #eastern promises, #eddie redmayne, #HIV, #jennifer lawrence, #lionsgate, #memento, #mockingjay, #paul walker, #peter jackson, #secret in their eyes, #sexism, #the danish girl, #the graduate, #the hobbit, #the hunger games, #the kid, #the night before, #tiger blood
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