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Fast and Furious 6

Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw movie review: everything wrong with the world today

Thu, Aug 08, 2019
67 comments

A stew of “hilarious” toxic masculinity and nonstop violence as the solution to all problems. Sexist, stupid nonsense, tediously familiar and wholly predictable. Even the cartoonish action falls flat.

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what’s the best way to honor the lives and work of famous people when they die?

Mon, Dec 09, 2013
6 comments

Is it doing something in the spirit of their work? Is it not deifying them by pretending they were more or other than they were?

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things wot we learned from the 2013 summer movies

Fri, Aug 30, 2013
28 comments

Have you been paying attention to what the movies have been saying — what the movies have really been saying — all summer? Here’s a refresher.

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the screenwriting bible that is to blame for the tedious blandness of blockbusters

Sat, Jul 20, 2013
12 comments

When I look at my watch during a movie, it’s because I’m checking to see if my guess about where in the runtime we are coincides with what just happened onscreen. This book is what makes that possible.

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how much of the success of Fast & Furious 6 is due to the diversity of its cast?

Tue, May 28, 2013
43 comments

Poor Paul Walker has only Luke Evans’ villain to turn to for someone who looks most like him…

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is this the worst Memorial Day weekend for movies ever?

Fri, May 24, 2013
9 comments

I cannot remember another Memorial Day weekend for which I gave all the wide releases a red light.

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The Grating Toretto, by Nick Carraway (Fast & Furious 6 review)

Fri, May 17, 2013
23 comments

A colossal affair swollen with the hubris and arrogance of men who trail the foul dust of mayhem in their wake.

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at least it has Luke Evans (Fast & Furious 6 trailer)

Mon, Apr 29, 2013
4 comments

“We talkin’ vehicular warfare.” You know that’s how they pitched this script…

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more Super Bowl movie stuff: Star Trek Into Darkness, Fast and Furious 6 (and other adventures in social networking)

Tue, Feb 05, 2013
3 comments

Stuff my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

| 3 Comments

question of the day: What 2013 movie are you most looking forward to?

Thu, Jan 10, 2013
24 comments

Let’s get our geek on for the coming year!

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