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‘Doctor Sleep’ made with love, pulled down by editing
6/10 As the ‘10s come to a close, the 30-year cycle of media nostalgia for the ‘80s is in full swing. The specific subset of romance for Stephen King media reaches its theoretical nadir with Doctor Sleep, both a sequel … Continue reading
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Tagged #rebecca ferguson, #the shining, Doctor Sleep, Ewan McGregor, Mike Flanagan, Stanely Kubrick, Stephen King
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‘Ready Player One’ is pure blockbuster magic
9/10 Ready Player One is a blue-blooded blockbuster, a brass bonanza of nostalgia, special effects and action. In 2045, overpopulation has turned Earth’s major cities into desperate slums. Most of the population regularly escapes to the OASIS, a massive multiplayer … Continue reading
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Tagged #bridge of spies, #lincoln, #mark rylance, #mcu, #steven spielberg, #the shining, doing it right, Gamergate, Mechagodzilla, Olivia Cooke, Pure Imagination, Ready Player One, The Overlook Hotel, toxic fandom, Transformers, Tye Sheridan, weaponized intertextuality, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
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Angry Birds is a fun, deep kids movie
Everyone’s cynical about the bevy of talking animal movies coming out right now, but for its part at least, The Angry Birds Movie is fantastic. The movie follows Red (Jason Sudeikis), a robin who can’t control his temper and is sent to … Continue reading
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Tagged #fifty shades of grey, #game of thrones, #josh gad, #peter dinklage, #the shining, angry birds, angry birds movie, angry birds was fantastic, angry birds was good, danny mcbride, indoctrinate the youth, jason sudeikis, maya rudolph, national post-Cold War self-satisfaction, sean penn, wake up america
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The Witch trades in thrills to deliver unbelievable chills
No, it’s not the scariest movie ever made. It may, however, be the scariest movie ever made entirely about boobs. Set in the 1600s a few decades before the Salem Witch Trials, The Witch follows a Puritan family banished from their plantation over … Continue reading
’60s adaptation aggressively, overwhelmingly funny
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is the perfect date movie, in that I want to take this movie out on a date. The beautiful and charming movie, based on the 1960s television series, thrusts Napoleon Solo (Henry Cavill), a master thief blackmailed … Continue reading
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Tagged #Alicia Vikander, #amazing spider-man 2, #ang lee, #armie hammer, #citizen kane, #Fantastic Four, #foreigners, #guy ritchie, #henry cavill, #hollywood, #Hulk, #james bond, #man of steel, #sequels, #sequilitis, #style over substance, #subtitles, #the lone ranger, #the man from uncle, #the shining, #warner bros.
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