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Smurfs

Show Dogs movie review: everything is awful

Fri, May 18, 2018
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Embarrassingly bad CGI; pratfalls; genital humor; denigration of cat ladies; horrible clichés and stereotypes. This is the cinematic equivalent of stepping in dog poop. You know, for kids!

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Fast & Furious 8 (aka The Fate of the Furious) movie review: notes from the critics’ ward

Wed, Apr 12, 2017
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EMPs and nukular codes and cyber crap and submarines, oh my! “What does this have to do with us?” Michelle Rodriguez cries, and I’m like I know, right?

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Smurfs: The Lost Village movie review: how do you solve a problem like Smurfette?

Fri, Mar 31, 2017
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An adventure crammed with junky slapstick and garish animation that seems to believe it is feminist, but only doubles down on Smurfily regressive notions of gender.

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Trolls movie review: you can’t stop the cute

Fri, Oct 28, 2016
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Cute and sweet and will put you to sleep, like a diabetic coma, and then it will smack you awake with its relentlessly cheery vivid-pastel optimism.

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fun stuff from FlickFilosopher stats week of Jul 13-19 2013

Sat, Jul 20, 2013
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Actual unretouched phrases that people plugged into search engines this week that led them to this site (with some commentary from me)…

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fun stuff from FlickFilosopher stats week of Jun 22-28 2013

Sun, Jun 30, 2013
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Actual unretouched phrases that people plugged into search engines this week that led them to this site (with some commentary from me)…

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fun stuff from FlickFilosopher stats week of Jan 5-11 2013

Sun, Jan 13, 2013
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Actual unretouched phrases that people plugged into search engines this week that led them to this site (with some commentary from me):

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is NBC’s Revolution a *complete* theft of S.M. Stirling’s Dies the Fire? (and other adventures in social networking)

Fri, Aug 10, 2012
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Links my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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London photo of the day: Lord Voldemort really wants that last Smurfs DVD

Wed, Dec 07, 2011
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He Who Must Not Be Named and Harry Potter battle for supremacy of the HMV in Piccadilly Circus.

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question of the day: Has Hollywood abandoned young men?

Tue, Nov 15, 2011
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Transformers, Pirates of the Caribbean, Thor, Green Lantern, X-Men, Captain America, etc. This is what 2011 looks like at the movies. In what way can it be construed that young men are “endangered” at the box office?

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