Showing posts with label 2019. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2019. Show all posts
Sunday, November 6, 2022

The man who killed the British Empire but not the Bigfoot

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MISSING LINK 2019 Written and directed by Chris Butler Spoilers: moderate
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Sunday, September 26, 2021

Farewell my concubine

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LEGEND OF THE DEMON CAT 2017 PRC/2019 USA Directed by Chen Kaige Written by Hui-Ling Wang and Chen Kaige (based on the novel Sramana Kukai ...
Wednesday, September 2, 2020

Oh the huge manatee

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CHILDREN OF THE SEA Kaiju no kodomo 2019 Japan/2020 USA Directed by Ayumu Watanabe and Kenichi Konishi Written by Hanasaki Kin...
Thursday, March 26, 2020

Child of light and darkness

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DARK PHOENIX 2019 Written and directed by Simon Kinberg Spoiler alert: severe
Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Terminatrix

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ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL 2019 Directed by Robert Rodriguez Written by Laeta Kalogridis and James Cameron (based on the comic, like, all ...
Thursday, February 20, 2020

Pacifics

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RIDE YOUR WAVE (Kimi to, Nami ni Noretara) 2019 Japan/2020 USA Directed by Masaaki Yuasa Written by Reiko Yoshida Spoiler a...
Sunday, February 9, 2020

Reviews from gulag: And 2019's still stinking up the place, part 3

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In this installment: I Lost My Body , Atlantics , and Penguin Highway . I LOST MY BODY I Lost My Body , always the most purely-theoret...
Monday, January 27, 2020

Reviews from gulag: And 2019's still stinking up the place, part 2

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In this installment: Knives Out, Ready Or Not , and Black Christmas . KNIVES OUT   I mean, yeah: 2019 was definitely the year of ...
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Sunday, January 19, 2020

After the rain

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WEATHERING WITH YOU aka Tenki no Ko (Weather's Child) Chalk another one up for the most important animator working today, ev...
Friday, January 17, 2020

Army of two

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1917 A technical juggernaut, 1917 nevertheless finds the soul beneath its spectacle and justifies itself, in every frame, as the dea...
Thursday, January 9, 2020

Reviews from gulag: And 2019's still stinking up the place, part 1

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Happy (belated) New Year!  Before we get started with 2020, there's still a lot of debris to clear out from 2019.  In this installment:...
Sunday, December 29, 2019

Is this the end of the world, the death of the light?

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A HIDDEN LIFE Don't call it a comeback, but even so, A Hidden Life really is the best Terry since The Tree of Life , and it mi...
Thursday, December 26, 2019

Wars is hell

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STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER And The Rise of Skywalker proves that we have grown too fond of it. 2019 Directed by J.J. A...
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Thursday, December 19, 2019

Look for the union label

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Monday, December 9, 2019

Reviews from gulag: Everybody's gotta start somewhere

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Sure: I have an affinity for the bigger side of filmmaking,  but it's nice sometimes to check in on the other side of the spectrum.  Or...
Monday, December 2, 2019

Turn away and slam the door

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FROZEN II On the plus side, it's not preceded by a 21 minute Coco short. Directed by Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck Written by...
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Tuesday, November 26, 2019

What do you do with the mad that you feel?

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A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD Too good in certain limited ways to dismiss, and way too easy to forget to wholeheartedly recom...
Monday, November 25, 2019

King Week: You taste like whiskey

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In which we arrive at the true purpose of this Stephen King mini-marathon, a film that I have some serious issues with, yet still could ...
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Saturday, November 23, 2019

The night is short, walk on boy

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LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT 80 minutes of some of the more artful, emotionally-intuitive filmmaking that 2019 had to offer ve...
Thursday, November 21, 2019

King Week: He who kind of chills out and doesn't get too worked up about it behind the rows

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In which Halloween-related marathoning has resulted in reviews of several spooky movies from the mind of the world's favorite horro...