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Fast & Furious 8 (aka The Fate of the Furious) movie review: notes from the critics’ ward
EMPs and nukular codes and cyber crap and submarines, oh my! “What does this have to do with us?” Michelle Rodriguez cries, and I’m like I know, right?
curated: “Rescued by Rover,” 1905
Meet Blair the collie, the first dog movie star.
curated: why CG sucks (except it doesn’t)
Important.

God Knows Where I Am documentary review: into her mind
A meditative, enormously sad, and sometimes angry-making portrait; provides a stark peek into a mind mentally ill yet remarkably confident and determined.

The Belko Experiment movie review: team-killing exercise
A one-note scenario that never ups the ante on itself, and never even bothers to use its extreme situation to send up office politics or corporate policies.
curated: Star Trek Continues E08: “Still Treads the Shadow”
I’m still absolutely thrilled at what a perfect pastiche of the original Star Trek series this fan-made project is.

Going in Style movie review: pabulum and circuses
Bland, tasteless entertainmentstuff intended to neither move nor offend, and succeeds as such. A sad pile of unfunny nothing that falls painfully flat.
curated: Bad Lip Reading Star Wars The Force Awakens
You’re welcome.






