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Early Man movie review: primordial goop

Mon, Nov 26, 2018Mon, Jan 29, 2018 | 7 Comments

A huge disappointment, crude and simple compared to Aardman’s earlier, more sophisticated and multilayered work. No satire or subversion, just a bog-standard triumph-of-the-underdog story.

Baby Driver movie review: common car-nage

Wed, Nov 28, 2018Tue, Jul 04, 2017 | 79 Comments

Edgar Wright used to send up cinematic clichés with gusto and with huge humor. Here he just embraces them — and his sullen, unengaging hero — unironically.

The World’s End review: the very bitter (and lager) end

Fri, Sep 25, 2020Fri, Jul 19, 2013 | 8 Comments

Its humor is a little more uncomfortable than that of the other Cornetto flicks, and it’s more far satirical, in a far more cynical way, than I ever would have anticipated.

fun stuff from FlickFilosopher stats week of Jun 8-14 2013

Fri, Jul 17, 2020Sun, Jun 16, 2013 | 4 Comments

Actual unretouched phrases that people plugged into search engines this week that led them to this site (with some commentary from me):

The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn (review)

Tue, Jul 21, 2020Wed, Oct 26, 2011 | Leave a comment

A soulless CGI-animated remake of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Without a Harrison Ford to smirk and snark his way through it, natch.

Paul (review)

Wed, Jul 22, 2020Thu, Mar 10, 2011 | Leave a comment

What if you and your most superbly geeky bestest friend ever met an alien? I mean a real life honest-to-Carl Sagan extry terrestrial. What if? You would plotz. You would. Like Nick Frost’s Clive does here, you would giggle like a loon and then faint, out cold from the sheer splendidness of this happenstance. I know I would.