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Lone Ranger

Red Sparrow movie review: undercovers agent

Thu, Mar 01, 2018
34 comments

Ballerina turned whore-spy? This is like a cheap porn scenario, and the Hollywood gloss makes it worse. Risible yet tedious, yet another movie by men that thinks it’s critiquing misogyny yet is indistinguishable from it.

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A Cure for Wellness movie review: it ails me

Fri, Feb 24, 2017
6 comments

Ominous signs and psychological detours get tossed out and tossed away on the path to ridiculous gothic nonsense that takes itself far too seriously.

| 6 Comments

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.

| 4 Comments

things wot we learned from the 2013 summer movies

Fri, Aug 30, 2013
28 comments

Have you been paying attention to what the movies have been saying — what the movies have really been saying — all summer? Here’s a refresher.

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why so many movies about folktales?

Mon, Aug 26, 2013
16 comments

What is it about folktales that appeal to us? What elements of folktales do you particularly like or hate, especially as Hollywood deals them out?

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The Lone Ranger review: weak whiskey

Thu, Aug 08, 2013
21 comments

Limp and lifeless, this overlong and undercooked would-be blockbuster cannot focus on either the hard-edged realities or the magical mysteries it toys with.

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no Lone Ranger review from me for a while yet

Mon, Jul 08, 2013
4 comments

Or The Heat. Or White House Down. Or Grown Ups 2. This is because these films don’t open in the U.K. for weeks and weeks still.

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Cinema du Sanity: the racism in Hollywood issue

Thu, Jun 27, 2013
4 comments

Tonto-versy! Johnny Depp now just prank-calling it in? Special Report: White Men in Hollywood: How Are They Doing? And more!

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The Lone Ranger, Oz the Great and Powerful, Iron Man 3 Super Bowl ads

Mon, Feb 04, 2013
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In lieu of a trailer today, here are the gathered Super Bowl ads that ran during the game yesterday for Disney’s upcoming flicks

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question of the day: What 2013 movie are you most looking forward to?

Thu, Jan 10, 2013
24 comments

Let’s get our geek on for the coming year!

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