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Dune movie review: dreams of alien worlds

Mon, Oct 25, 2021
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Monumental. Villeneuve tells a familiar story with uncommon elegance and pensiveness, even dreaminess, on a breathtaking scale. A stunningly gorgeous, supremely dignified movie about ugly things.

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curated: the boy who was almost Anakin Skywalker

Sat, Oct 02, 2021
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Please watch this absolutely bittersweet and poignant short film about Devon Michael, a child star in the 1990s who was on the very shortlist to play Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace…

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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker movie review: the galaxy isn’t far far away, it’s just very small

Thu, Jan 09, 2020
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Kudos to J.J. Abrams for doing something extraordinary: he has made me not care about Star Wars for the first time ever. I’m kind of relieved that it’s over, because it has stopped being fun.

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Maleficent: Mistress of Evil movie review: mistress of what now?

Wed, Oct 16, 2019
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An apparently unfairly maligned “wicked witch” has to be redeemed again. Anyway, bitches be evil, crazy and traumatized, or sweet dumb personality-free near-morons. You know, for kids!

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Doctor Who: “Logopolis” Fathom Event review: it’s the end, but the moment has been prepared for

Wed, Mar 06, 2019
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An iconic story from the classic era of the British cult TV favorite comes to US big screens for one night only… and the cleaned-up FX as well as its deceptively simple tale hold up rather well.

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at the 20th anniversary of ‘Titanic,’ where are all the knockoffs?

Wed, Nov 29, 2017
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We should be absolutely sick to death of all the cash-ins, pseudo-remakes and imitators. Where are they?

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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story movie review: the high price of hope

Fri, Dec 16, 2016
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There’s genuine fun here, but the humor is cynical, the heroics are tinged with regret, and it’s all delivered with a cold smack of — yes — political relevance.

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Ratchet & Clank movie review: wretched and junk

Thu, Apr 28, 2016
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Could have been assembled entirely from clips from other movies — mostly the Star Wars prequels — and would have been better if it had been.

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from Facebook: George Lucas calls Disney “white slavers”

Fri, Jan 01, 2016
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[This post is not behind the paywall.]

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Strange Magic movie review: bad spell

Sun, May 24, 2015
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Apparently this was inspired by A Midsummer Night’s Dream, but it has about as much in common with that as Burger King does with Macbeth.

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