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Keanu Reeves

The Bad Batch movie review: a girl walks into dystopia alone

Fri, Jun 23, 2017
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Filmmaker-to-watch Ana Lily Amirpour again shakes up a familiar genre — here, the postapocalyptic adventure — in unexpected ways, but stumbles a bit in the process.

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Exposed movie review: cover it up, burn it, bury it, never look at it again

Fri, Feb 26, 2016
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To call it disjointed is an understatement: Exposed is unintelligible. It feels like two completely different movies inelegantly Frankensteined together.

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Where Are the Women? John Wick

Fri, Apr 10, 2015
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Badass lady assassin? Good. Dead wife to motivate the protagonist and decorative tits and asses to, er, motivate the audience? Less good. [This post is not behind the paywall.]

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John Wick movie review: deadly dancing

Fri, Apr 10, 2015
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Funky-elegant, weirdly funny, visually intoxicating. I love this movie so much for how it’s different about being more of the same old stuff we always love.

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47 Ronin review: they’re not having much fun storming the castle

Tue, Apr 01, 2014
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A handsome movie in many ways, but it feels like an unpolished first draft, one that can’t quite decide how fantastical it wants to be.

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Amsterdam photo of the day: proof that Simon Pegg is a time-traveler

Tue, Feb 04, 2014
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Alternate title: Simon Pegg likes it ruff.

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47 Ronin trailer: I do loves me some Keanu…

Mon, Oct 28, 2013
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The dialogue is hopelessly clichéd, but this looks kind of amazing…

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a movie about a guy, two hookers, and a camcorder (Generation Um… trailer)

Thu, Apr 04, 2013
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There’s no way this can go wrong, is there?

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Darth Vader meets Batman, on the subway (and other adventures in social networking)

Sat, Aug 11, 2012
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Links my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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Side by Side (trailer)

Fri, Aug 03, 2012
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Keanu Reeves talks to big-name directors about the shift to digital cinema. Because there weren’t enough reasons already to love Keanu.

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