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Year: 2016

Warcraft: The Beginning (aka Warcraft) movie review: guest review by a white male teenage nerd from 1987

Mon, Jun 06, 2016
277 comments

Like all Frazetta fantasy posters came to life all at once. A masterpiece of cinema that truly speaks to the interests of white male teenage nerds from 1987.

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London photo: strange but charming little house

Fri, Jun 03, 2016
3 comments

With the tower of St. Pancras’ railway station in the background.

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Time to Choose documentary review: yes, it’s another movie about global warming

Fri, Jun 03, 2016
1 comment

Quickly dispels oh-no-not-more-doom-and-gloom climate-change trepidation with the optimism embodied in the title. There is hope for us, but we must act now.

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Holding the Man movie review: grand romance, no qualifiers needed

Fri, Jun 03, 2016
2 comments

Told with a lovely romantic sweep and full of raw, honest emotion, this is a gay love story that’s also just a great love story, full stop. Yay.

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The Nice Guys movie review: not-so-nice comic noir

Fri, Jun 03, 2016
3 comments

Two fun characters played by two great actors with fantastic chemistry together go in search of a movie, and — spoiler! — never quite find it.

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London photos: New River Walk

Wed, Jun 01, 2016
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The New River is actually a manmade aqueduct dating from the early 17th century…

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Me Before You movie review: romantic dramedy delusions

Wed, Jun 01, 2016
28 comments

This miscalculated romantic dramedy is pathetically simplistic about morally complicated issues, and kind of offensive to those living with disabilities.

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London photo: this way to the Turkish baths

Mon, May 30, 2016
1 comment

Outside a modern sandwich shop, leftover signage for a place where people once hung out.

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows movie review: shell schlock

Mon, May 30, 2016
87 comments

Leaden and witless, though it obviously believes there is humor in its loud, chaotic juvenility. It would be an insult to cartoons to call this cartoonish.

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Gods of Egypt movie review: those whom the gods wish to punish, they force to watch this movie

Sat, May 28, 2016
12 comments

Hilariously, casting white Westerners as mortals and deities of the ancient Nile is the least offensive thing about this crime against goofball cinema.

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