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Movie Review: First Man
4 stars out of 5 You were expecting me to review a different movie? Patience, dear friends. I’ve been fairly interested in space exploration my entire life, yet I was surprised how little I knew about the Apollo moon mission and the lengthy lead-up to it. Weird. Was there never another movie about it? Were […]
Movie Review: Blade Runner 2049
4 stars out of 5 When I was young, I’m fairly certain I had a paperback of Blade Runner, inside of which I learned the book was originally titled Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Although, proving the fallacy of memory — which is a big theme in this film — in my mind I […]
Movie Review: The Nice Guys
3 stars out of 5 Ah, OK, it all makes sense now: Director/co-writer Shane Black wrote the original Lethal Weapon. Because this is totally, totally the Lethal Weapon formula: mismatched buddies fightin’ crime and crackin’ wise. It’s 1977 in Los Angeles. The movie tries a little too hard to tell us “hey it’s 1977!” (The […]
Movie Review: The Place Beyond the Pines
2.5 stars out of 5 Had this been a live-action short, it would’ve been pretty freaking great. Oscar quality, maybe. But as it stands, this is basically a piece of shit. And that’s a shame, because it does start very strongly. Kind of a dark twist on Oz the Great and Powerful. For we once […]
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