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The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part movie review: everything is still (mostly) awesome

Thu, Feb 07, 2019
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Our expectations are a lot higher now after the unexpectedly wildly inventive first movie… and this sequel delivers, digging with witty subversion into Hollywood’s glorification of its male heroes.

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Geostorm movie review: weather bomb

Tue, Oct 24, 2017
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Almost hilariously terrible: absurd plot machinations, dubious politics, not a single character to care about. And it doesn’t even give good disaster porn.

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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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10,000 B.C. movie review: prehysterical

Fri, Mar 07, 2008
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Oh my god: the silly, it burns. It burns!

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