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Groundhog Day

loaded question: what movie do you most associate with winter that isn’t a Christmas movie?

Tue, Dec 07, 2021
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Maybe it’s a film set in the winter, or maybe there’s some other association for you.

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Oscar Nominated Live Action Shorts 2021 (93rd Academy Awards) review

Sun, Apr 25, 2021
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The brilliantly unsettling “Two Distant Strangers” is not only the most important of the nominees but one of the movies of the year, of any length. Its surprises are more brutal than mere plot twists.

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curated: Michael Shannon is in ‘Groundhog Day’

Thu, Feb 02, 2017
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I have seen this movie a million times, and this never registered.

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Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children movie review: infodump, the movie

Sat, Oct 01, 2016
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Relentlessly dull. A tour of a strange world and “characters” little more than their “peculiar” abilities isn’t enough to whip up fantastical excitement.

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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies movie review: there and back again… at last

Wed, Dec 10, 2014
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I fear that Peter Jackson has been suffering from a similar affliction to the dwarf king’s “dragon sickness”: a compulsive lust for epicness.

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spoiler alert: what’s really going on in Inside Llewyn Davis

Thu, May 08, 2014
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We need to talk about Llewyn Davis. Cuz there’s a thing that no one else has been talking about when trying to interpret this film…

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Edge of Tomorrow footage reveal report

Tue, Mar 11, 2014
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About 25 minutes of footage from the film and a Q&A with director Doug Liman reveals some pleasant surprises (and a reason to worry). No spoilers!

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Edge of Tomorrow trailer: welcome to yesterday?

Mon, Mar 03, 2014
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Wasn’t there a TV soap called Edge of Tomorrow years back? (It was two soap operas, in fact: Search for Tomorrow and The Edge of Night.)

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what is there to say about Harold Ramis? he was very fascinating

Tue, Feb 25, 2014
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Ramis’s Groundhog Day, which he wrote and directed, might be the finest film comedy ever made…

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About Time review: creep trick

Fri, Sep 06, 2013
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Arbitrary and inconsistent rules of time travel in aid of creepy romantic manipulation and temporal stalking. But hey, at least it’s got Bill Nighy!

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