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So, this is definitely a Sunday post, it just happens to be on Tuesday. Don’t be fooled. I watched American Fiction on the weekend. I liked it a lot – it drew emotionally engaging characters efficiently (I was really drawn into the friendship of Monk and his sister Lisa, even
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I’ve looked at the reviews around the place, and as far as I can see, if you read the book first, you’re very down on Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, and if you didn’t, you think it’s a masterpiece.[1] I read the book earlier this
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I was recommended What the Duck the other week and so far, I’m really enjoying it. It’s hard to go past an episode about how snakes have two clitorides.[1] Ann Jones is a pleasure to listen to, though I think I’ll need to slow down my
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It's your regularly-scheduled Sunday post. Oh yes it is. Every Sunday since this one. You remember. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'd heard good things [https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/oct/26/the-babadook-review-mark-kermode-brilliant-chiller] about The Babadook [http://letterboxd.com/film/the-babadook/]. And it is very well-made. But. There'
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I was pretty ambivalent about Man of Steel [https://thegreatescapism.com/steely-man/]. The thing that bugged me at the time (and a lot of other people, as it turned out), was the wanton destruction and general boringness of the last act. It turns out that Batman v Superman does not
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It doesn’t seem fair to compare a brand new movie to how you feel about something after years of it growing on you. I’m not sure I liked Zoolander immediately, but at some point it crept into my brain and made a cosy home for itself. Freak gasoline
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> Rinko, a long time ago I made a solemn promise. And that promise was that, some day, I would finally let you have your own shoe back. And now that you’ve long since outgrown it, here it is. – The Editing Room take on Pacific Rim [http://www.the-editing-room.
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Interview with Man of Steel's Visual Effects Supervisor [http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/29/4474512/man-of-steel-visual-effects-supervisor-john-dj-desjardin-interview] Okay, so I guess they really quite liked the idea of massive collateral damage.
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A few quick thoughts on Man of Steel. Wanton destruction. I’m surprised to see a movie pull the kind of over-the-top mindless destruction that this did. Surely a modern audience is going to find it hard to ignore the horrendous implied body-count while they watch an ultimately popcorn-level film
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From mr-dalliard [http://mr-dalliard.tumblr.com/post/47542367365/time-travel-in-movies]: > Time travel in movies You should have this on hand at all times. It may not save your life, but it could save your whole timeline.
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> I thought Casino Royale was tremendous. I thought his action was quite extraordinary—he did more action in the first 30 seconds of the film than I did in 14 years of playing Bond. To me, he looks like a killer. He looks as though he knows what he’
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These are a few of my favourite things [http://letterboxd.com/tomcharman/list/films-i-love/] I’ve been playing around with the very attractive new film-listing site, Letterboxd [http://letterboxd.com], and I’ve compiled a list of the movies I love the most. If the site is anyone’s cup