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Goonies

#DailyStream weekly roundup

Sun, Jan 22, 2023
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The #DailyStream is a once-per-day, single-movie-only streaming recommendation that appears both at my Substack and Patreon, and in truncated forms across my social media. They are free for everyone.

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It: Chapter Two movie review: it doesn’t float

Wed, Sep 04, 2019
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A bigger misfire than its predecessor, and a waste of a great cast. Unsupportably overlong, with a feel-good self-care denouement that’s almost dangerous. The only terrifying thing here is the tedium.

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Us movie review: a new kind of horror for a newly precarious world

Wed, Mar 20, 2019
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An anxious moan, a looming disquiet of a reckoning coming for America. This is horror as weird, funny, damning, and more disconcerting the more you think about it, finding fear right in front of us.

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It movie review: a series of unfortunate events

Fri, Sep 08, 2017
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The Goonies, Stand by Me, and Poltergeist went into a blender with a pinch of E.T. and John Hughes to smush into a mess of retro 80s mush.

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

Mon, May 30, 2016
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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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Fantastic Four movie review: fantastic bore

Thu, Aug 06, 2015
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There isn’t an authentic human motivation or emotion to be found here. The bar has been raised too high on comic-book movies for us to accept junk like this.

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Earth to Echo movie review: not good enough for me

Thu, Jul 24, 2014
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An inoffensive time-passer for youngsters, but adult genre fans who recall the 80s classics it draws on — E.T. and The Goonies — will be bored.

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Doctor Who thing: the Doctor gets his own Little Golden Book

Thu, Jan 23, 2014
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Not actually. It’s part of an art exhibition in California.

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Fright Night (review)

Mon, Aug 29, 2011
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It’s a rare thing, but sometimes digging up the past and giving it another spin is a good thing.

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Super 8 movie review: all about Steve

Thu, Jun 16, 2011
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Is it weird that the overwhelming feeling I’m left with after Super 8 is one of a nostalgic melancholy?

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