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The Haunting of Bly Manor: *Snore*
Bland, predictable, and lacking teeth. Are you in it for the scares, the mystery, or the characters? They all disappoint. The scares...
Sep 7, 20211 min read
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101 Dalmatians (1961): Long Past Expiration
So, the film starts out with a dog wistfully watching passersby in an awful sequence where women’s bodies are compared to those of their...
Aug 30, 20211 min read
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Disneynature Bears (2014) Forgets Bears Are Not Human
Let’s get this out of the way: the footage is great. If you want some impeccably-filmed bear footage, this is your jam. I’d just suggest...
Aug 21, 20211 min read
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The Little Mermaid 2: Why Did They Even?
Lazy and dumb on such an extreme level that I thought it was hilarious at times. Basically from the point where the villain is introduced...
Aug 13, 20211 min read
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The Little Mermaid: Not That Bad
Honestly, not as bad as my foggy childhood memories indicated. The film has a beautiful aesthetic, the villain is captivating, and the...
Aug 6, 20211 min read
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Candy Box 2: Strange But Sweet
Candy Box 2 is an ASCII-styled adventure/puzzle game, and a sequel to one of the prominent early incremental titles. But while Candy Box...
Jul 31, 20211 min read
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The Sisters Brothers: A Sibling Extravaganza
When I saw that there was a western movie starring John C. Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix as leads, I had to convince myself that I was still...
Jul 23, 20212 min read
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Hard Eight
Slow and contemplative, Hard Eight follows a couple of career gamblers through a series of revealing decisions. The cast is great,...
Jul 16, 20211 min read
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Bottle Rocket Hits Its Target
But the explosion is very muted. Owen and Luke Wilson play longtime friends and petty crooks who decide to perform a robbery. Their...
Jul 11, 20211 min read
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Raya and the Interminable Backstory
The film is gorgeous, with vibrant environments and outstanding character models. If you want to see cool-looking characters doing...
Jul 4, 20211 min read
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Fringe: A Show Worth Observing
Fringe is a police procedural where the crisis-of-the-episode is always a sci-fi mystery. A murderer turns out to be a man-porcupine...
Jun 25, 20212 min read
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Mandy: What Did I Just Watch?
People like to see Nicolas Cage wilding out. So Cage indulges, every couple years, with a film where he does just that. Mandy is one of...
Jun 18, 20211 min read
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Tales From the Loop
Episodes of Loop are slow, contemplative works of irony that share a continuity but no real overarching story. As such, you could...
Jun 11, 20211 min read
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Dumbo (2019), Still Just As Dumb
Only half as scattered and aimless as the original, but it makes up for it by being as long and boring as it can manage. The film is just...
Jun 4, 20211 min read
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Lovecraft Country (Season 1--of hopefully many)
Immaculate in both its conception and execution, Lovecraft Country pairs captivating spectacle with thematic depth. At its heart, the...
May 28, 20211 min read
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Ratatouille: What The Chef Threw Out
Ratatouille is incessantly stupid, and I hated just about every minute of it. The only thing I can find to recommend about the whole...
May 21, 20211 min read
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Hunt for the Wilderpeople
This film tells a charming and hilarious tale about found family, reputation, and societal judgment. It’s quite an adventure, has a few...
May 14, 20211 min read
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Like Father: A 98-Minute Commercial
I’ve heard this film described as a romantic comedy, which is strange, because the central relationship is between a young business exec...
May 7, 20211 min read
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Mayhem (2017)
This Steven Yeun-led action film is just under 90 minutes of flashy action and gore, and as long as you’re looking for nothing more, will...
Apr 30, 20211 min read
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Gideon the Ninth: Bones and Swords, and More Bones
So the book starts out, and there’s some swords, and then it’s like BOOM BOOM BOOM with some skeletons, and then some casual...
Apr 25, 20211 min read
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