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Gravity

Geostorm movie review: weather bomb

Tue, Oct 24, 2017
23 comments

Almost hilariously terrible: absurd plot machinations, dubious politics, not a single character to care about. And it doesn’t even give good disaster porn.

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Arrival movie review: how to talk to aliens and expand your consciousness

Tue, Nov 08, 2016
70 comments

Intelligent, intense, grownup science fiction that will thrill genre lovers and satisfy fans of moving human drama. A beautiful, thought-provoking film.

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more men I am officially tired of being asked to sympathize with in movies

Wed, Jan 13, 2016
369 comments

Update! Another year, another slate of films proving there is almost nothing that men can do, think, or be that The Movies will not deem worthy of a story.

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Muppets Most Wanted review: that’ll do, frog

Wed, Mar 19, 2014
21 comments

Kermit the Frog takes on his biggest challenge yet: dual roles. And truly puts the villain in vaudevillian.

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my guesses for Sunday night’s 86th Academy Awards

Mon, Mar 03, 2014
4 comments

Winners are indicated. I got 16/24. Pretty good, if I may say so myself.

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Oscar Best Picture nominee marathon at AMC multiplexes around the U.S. starts today

Sat, Feb 22, 2014
1 comment

Here’s a great way to catch up on the film you missed…

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Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts (86th Academy Awards) review

Thu, Jan 30, 2014
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The French “Mr. Hublot” creates an utterly real yet completely fantastical world, a palpable steampunk environment of gorgeous mechanical loveliness.

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women at the Golden Globes = “too much estrogen”

Tue, Jan 14, 2014
6 comments

Marvel at the terror of a man seeing the dominance of his privilege challenged on unwitting display.

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evening clickbait: Gravity is a British film; Inspector Lestrade and Mrs. Hudson share clothes; how the Twilight Zone reflects 2010s paranoia

Wed, Jan 08, 2014
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Stuff I found on the Net today.

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the Alliance of Women Film Journalists 2013 EDA Award winners

Fri, Dec 20, 2013
3 comments

12 Years a Slave and Gravity win big…

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