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Light Between Oceans delivers on promising cast, tough to enjoy anyway
I’ve never seen a movie that started this slow get this much slower. Based on M.L. Stedman’s 2012 novel, The Light Between Oceans follows Tom Sherbourne (Michael Fassbender) as he returns home to Australia from World War I. Looking to get away … Continue reading
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Tagged #Alicia Vikander, #michael fassbender, Blue Valentine, Derek Cianfrance, Excuses, Light Between Oceans is too slow, Light Between Oceans rewarding visually rich, Nerve, Nicholas Sparks, Nicholas Sparks knockoff, The Light Between Oceans, the neon demon, The Place Beyond the Pines
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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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2016 Academy Awards fallout
#Oscarssowhite dominates the ceremony The Academy Awards are normally awful, but this year, they traded in the usual tedium for a three-hour apology for #oscarssowhite that managed to cast a pall over the entire ceremony. It’s easy to see why … Continue reading
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Tagged #affirmative action, #alejandro inarritu, #annie hall, #argo, #birdman, #chariots of fire, #cheryl boone isaacs, #chris rock, #drive, #eddie murphy, #ex machina, #Fantastic Four, #forsest gump, #fury road, #george miller, #heaven's gate, #it follows, #its on us, #joe biden, #lady gaga, #leonardo dicaprio, #mad max, #michael fassbender, #morgan freeman, #oscars, #oscarssowhite, #pulp fiction, #raiders of the lost arc, #ride along 2, #sam smith, #samuel l jackson, #sicario, #spotlight, #star wars, #suicide squad, #the artist, #the revenant, #tom hardy, Transformers
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Stop what you’re doing and go see Macbeth
One would think the movie set primarily on Mars would be the reddest film of the year. Not so. You know the story. Macbeth (Michael Fassbender), Thane of Glamis, after winning a great victory against the rebellious Macdonwald (Hilton McRae), is … Continue reading
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Tagged #macbeth, #marion cotillard, #michael fassbender, #murder, #the weinstein company
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