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Mandela Effect: Dry Scifi
Like both the Mandela Effect and simulation theory which both factor into its premise, rarely compelling in its concept once you get into...
Mar 26, 20211 min read
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Madeline (1998)
Precocious girl performs antics to prevent her boarding school from closing down. Suitably cute, moderately funny, with both types of...
Mar 19, 20211 min read
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Child’s Play
Prepare to throw all logic out the window on this one. The plot mechanics are ill-defined. You knew that just based on the premise. But...
Mar 12, 20211 min read
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The Brand New Testament: Delightfully Irreverent
The premise: in addition to being both a misanthrope and a sadist, God (the Christian one) is an abusive husband and father. The bulk of...
Feb 26, 20212 min read
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Black Box: Not Catchy Enough
Black Box is a competent psychological horror film that slowly stews. It’s a bit on the slow side, and I wouldn’t suggest it for those...
Feb 12, 20211 min read
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Ballet Shoes: A Spoonful of Sugar
Ballet Shoes is a movie about a London family struggling during the Great Depression. It centers around the three adopted girls who are...
Feb 5, 20211 min read
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Addams Family (2019): It’s Okay
It’s cute. It’s reasonably funny. It’s got all the characters you remember. It’s fine. Plot: 4 Characters: 5 Themes: 5 Spectacle: 7...
Jan 29, 20211 min read
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The Art of Self Defense: A Thesis On Toxic Masculinity
I'll be honest. I wasn't sure if this movie was brilliant or just brilliantly stupid at first. But, every couple scenes or so The Art of...
Jan 22, 20212 min read
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Four Lions: A Terrorism Comedy
A small group of would-be terrorists who are rejected by a larger terrorist group decide to hatch a plan of their own. Now there are a...
Jan 15, 20211 min read
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Cabin in the Woods: A Metacommentary
I don’t think there’s much for me to say about Cabin in the Woods that someone smarter hasn’t already said. It manages to be a...
Jan 1, 20211 min read
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Lovebirds: A Romantic Murder Comedy
A couple who are drifting apart accidentally become accessories to a murder. Two people of color, they spend the rest of the film running...
Dec 25, 20201 min read
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The Little Hours: The Longest Rape Joke
The Little Hours has an amazing cast, an interesting thematic bent, and occasionally strong writing. Certainly there are funny scenes...
Dec 18, 20202 min read
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Leo Da Vinci: Mission Mona Lisa
This is a tired, predictable, dumb, formula children’s film. It doesn’t look especially good, the dubbing is awkward, and not a single...
Dec 11, 20201 min read
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Fe@rless: Hello, Fellow Kids
The premise: A supervillain wants to kidnap a superhero’s babies in order to siphon their powers. A couple of high school kids end up...
Dec 4, 20203 min read
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Babe (1995), Relentlessly Cute
From the perspective of its titular character, Babe is a story about a pig who is “adopted” by a family of sheepdogs. From the...
Oct 18, 20201 min read
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5 Flights Up Should Have Leapt Off The Balcony
About 5 Flights Up, the Rotten Tomatoes "consensus" says the following: “5 Flights Up is a bit of a narrative fixer-upper, but when it...
Oct 18, 20202 min read
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[Brandy’s] Cinderella (1997)
I don’t like musicals. I don’t like this particular fairy tale. I don’t like Disney films, on the whole. I’m not even sure I like this...
Oct 13, 20201 min read
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Peanut Butter Falcon: Powerbomb Your Feelings
Another Shia LaBeouf film? Yeah, you caught me. I like watching this guy. His career has had an odd, but entertaining trajectory. And as...
Oct 13, 20202 min read
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Pixy Dragons, the Animation Loop
Okay, so imagine you let your seven-year-old pick a random movie on Amazon. It’s appropriately child-friendly, and it has dragons. Good...
Sep 20, 20203 min read
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Honey Boy: Love It Or Love It
Do you like Shia LaBeouf? No? Then, would you like to see him play a washed-up rodeo clown failure of an abusive father? In a movie that...
Aug 23, 20201 min read
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