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‘Shaft’ tries to go anti-millennial, goes anti-gay instead
2/10 Several years ago, there was a major social media hubbub over the idea of Donald Glover playing Spiderman. A counterargument that rose above the initial din was to equate that to casting Michael Cera as Shaft. Now it’s 2019. … Continue reading
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Tagged #anthony mackie, #chadwick boseman, #donald glover, #michael b jordan, #samuel l jackson, Alexandra Shipp, homosexism, Jessie Usher, Michael Cera, Michael Cera should play Shaft, Regina Hall, Richard Roundtree, Shaft, Shaft 2000, Shaft 2019, Tim Story, toxic masulinity, transsexism
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‘Creed II’ continues to modernize, improve franchise
8/10 Flawless and intense, Creed II is one of the better boxing movies I’ve seen. Three years after the events of Creed, Donnie Johnson-Creed has won his way to a fight for the heavyweight championship of the world. After earning … Continue reading
‘Black Panther’ is another Marvel movie
5/10 It’s finally time for the first black superhero movie. Yeah, I know, Blade came first, but this is different! This is Marvel Studios! This is the machine! Blade isn’t really a full-blooded superhero, he’s a vampire hunter — back … Continue reading
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Tagged #andy serkis, #black panther, #chadwick boseman, #civil war, #martin freeman, #mcu, #michael b jordan, #ryan coogler, captain america: civil war, Marvel, ugly
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The most important movies of 2015
Annual top 10 lists are stupid, lame and wrong. They’re easy to write, boring to read and represent everything wrong with modern film criticism. At this site, we aspire to track the progress of movies over time, so instead of … Continue reading
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Tagged #50 shades of grey, #A24 films, #Age of Ultron, #Alicia Vikander, #avatar, #beasts of no nation, #china all the time, #chris pratt, #dakota johnson, #DC comics, #Disney, #domhnall gleeson, #el james, #ex machina, #Fantastic Four, #furious 7, #fury road, #glorious 70 mm, #green lantern, #i love china, #inside out, #it follows, #jamie dorman, #josh trank, #judgment day, #jurassic world, #lionsgate, #mad max, #marvel comics, #marvel studios, #metropolis, #michael b jordan, #minions, #mission: impossible, #mockingjay, #Netflix, #Oscar Isaac, #parks and recreation, #pirates of the caribbean, #pixar, #prattprattpratt, #quentin tarantino, #sam taylor-johnson, #spectre, #star wars, #straight outta compton, #terminator 2, #the force awakens, #the hateful eight, #the hobbit, #the hunger games, #the martian, #the matrix, #the visit, #universal pictures, #venice film festival, #war room, #warner bros., Guardians of the Galaxy, Marvel, The Avengers, Transformers
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Creed could have been excellent, isn’t
Hailed as the best movie of the year, Creed is exactly the kind of overlong, deliriously predictable feature that comes away with its accolades for all the wrong reasons. The movie follows Donnie Johnson (Michael B. Jordan), the illegitimate son of Apollo … Continue reading
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Tagged #creed, #fruitvale station, #hippity hop, #michael b jordan, #rocky, #ryan coogler, #sylvester Stallone, #tessa thompson
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