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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
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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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The bubble bursts- on Moviepass and the rise of monopoly-class movies
When I started doing these Labor Day summer wrapups five years ago, what I identified — and what plenty of other people identified — was a crashing bubble at the domestic box office, and after a rebound year in 2018, … Continue reading
Posted in White Noise
Tagged #3D, #avatar, #Avengers, #black panther, #Disney, #george lucas, #iron man, #lucasfilm, #marvel studios, #pixar, #the lion king, Aladdin, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Avengers: Endgame, Business Insider, Captain Marvel, Crazy Rich Asians, Dark Phoenix, Endgame, Frozen II, Incredibles 2, Infinity War, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Labor Day, Men in Black International, Midsommar, Monopoly class movies, MoviePass, Spider-Man: Far From Home, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker, Toy Story 4, Us
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‘Angel’ falls forward onto weekend crown, Disney looms over Sony
Lionsgate’s Angel has Fallen rose high above industry expectations with an opening of $21.4 million, nearly matching its 2016 predecessor London has Fallen. It’s the series’ worst opening, but the first entry to spend time at no. 1. Other new … Continue reading
Posted in The Möbius strip
Tagged #china, #Disney, #lionsgate, #martin scorsese, #sony, #the lion king, Angel has Fallen, D23, Good Boys, Harvey Weinstein, Hobbs & Shaw, Hong Kong protests, Jeff Goldblum, Kevin Feige, Marvel, MoviePass, Mulan, No Time to Die, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Overcomer, Ready or Not, Spider-Man, Spider-Man: Far From Home, The Hunt, The Irishman, Us, Weathering With You
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Realism sucks
2/10 They don’t hit that initial “nants ingonyama” hard enough. They don’t hit anything hard enough. In National Geographic’s The Lion King, Mufasa and Sarabi (James Earl Jones and Alfre Woodard), King and Queen of Pride Rock, give birth to … Continue reading
Posted in Entropy
Tagged #beyonce, #chiwetel ejiofor, #Disney, #donald glover, #jon favreau, #mufasa, #snow white and the huntsman, #the lion king, Batman Daddy Mufasa, Boringly Covetous Scar, Flaming Hitler Scar, James Earl Jones, live-action, Mufasa Mufasa Mufasa, photorealistic, Seth Rogen, Tired Grandpa Mufasa
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