UNREASONABLE OPINIONS BY KNR

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Oct 18, 20201 min read

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...

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Oct 18, 20202 min read

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...

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Oct 13, 20201 min read

[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...

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Oct 13, 20202 min read

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...

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Oct 13, 20202 min read

Windhaven: I Do Not Want a Pair of Wings

Windhaven is a fix-up novel co-written by George R.R. Martin and Lisa Tuttle. While both are authors with respectable catalogues, I’m not...

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Sep 20, 20203 min read

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...

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Sep 20, 20202 min read

The Ginger Star: A Square-Jawed Dream

Are you the type to grab a random book off the shelf of a used bookstore and impulse buy it based on how much you love the front cover? I...

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Aug 23, 20202 min read

Axiom’s End: I’ve Already Forgotten What the Axiom Is

Aliens. Disintegration. Explosions. Mind control. Government conspiracies. What more could you want, you greedy bastards? And yet,...

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Aug 23, 20201 min read

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...

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Aug 5, 20202 min read

The Last Airbender, Why?

Everything is wrong with this film. It's an adaptation of the well-remembered Nickelodeon show Avatar: the Last Airbender. The problems...

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Aug 5, 20202 min read

West of Hell: A Hilarious Mistake

West of Hell attempts to be a thoughtful horror film about complex characters wrestling with their moral failings. Instead, it's very...

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Jul 29, 20202 min read

Chthon, A Thoroughly Unpleasant Read

I found Chthon in a used bookstore and impulse bought it because I loved the name and the back-cover blurb. It then sat on my shelf for...

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Jul 19, 20202 min read

The Woman In Black: Top Tier Creepy Toys

Look, some of us like Daniel Radcliffe. Irrespective of the famous Harry Potter franchise. Yes, enough to consistently watch the stream...

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Jul 13, 20202 min read

Casper the Horny Ghost

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/casper I was a kid when this came out in 1995. Before watching it recently, I had only the vaguest...

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