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Ghosted (2023)
Meeting that special someone can be a real adventure.
Filmmaker(s): Dexter Fletcher

Salt-of-the-earth Cole falls head over heels for enigmatic Sadie—but then makes the shocking discovery that she's a secret agent. Before they can decide on a second date, Cole and Sadie are swept away on an international adventure to save the world.

How I Met Your Spy Mother Gosh, another film I cannot recommend from the trailer on. This script comes from a vending machine with the selections: ‘romantic comedy’, sexy girl superhero/Bond, two and a half big action sequences, with the governance in that order. It almost seems...


Published November 11, 2024
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Kimi (2022)
She's not the only one listening.
Filmmaker(s): Steven Soderbergh

A tech worker with agoraphobia discovers recorded evidence of a violent crime but is met with resistance when she tries to report it. Seeking justice, she must do the thing she fears the most: leave her apartment.

Powdered Banana Here we have a master filmmaker, someone who can squeeze a brilliant vision out of just about anything. We have a very talented and experienced scriptwriter, someone who has impressed before. And a very competent actress who fills the role well. She has a...


Published November 11, 2024
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The Hateful Eight (2015)
No one comes up here without a damn good reason.
Filmmaker(s): Quentin Tarantino

Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception.

Samsinging I use Apple products. I probably would use them even if the experience were poor, if they didn’t give utility, purely because of the privacy issue. But they do give pleasure. Some of that pleasure is in the absolute quality of the user experience. I...


Published October 29, 2024
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Lola (2022)
Making history will never be the same again
Filmmaker(s): Andrew Legge

Sussex, England, 1938. Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, Thomasina and Martha Hanbury, two ingenious sisters, create LOLA, a miraculous machine.

Retroactive Reinterpretation First, you should know this comment is written after a long break from lucidly watching serious movies, as my current movie time is often guided to mainstream films. I am giving this film a four, because it is one of the two from 2022...


Published October 22, 2024
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7 Women and a Murder (2021)
Filmmaker(s): Alessandro Genovesi

When the family patriarch is murdered, seven women find themselves trapped together in his mansion to solve the mystery.

Minivan to Chucky’s This is a play that has been made into a movie a few times. I saw this Italian version dubbed into fairly good English. Its appeal is supposedly in the characters, and the economy of production. I’ll let others judge whether the interaction...


Published October 22, 2024
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Nimona (2023)
A new hero takes shape.
Filmmaker(s): Troy Quane, Nick Bruno

A knight framed for a tragic crime teams with a scrappy, shape-shifting teen to prove his innocence.

Your Local Manager I came to this with kids, not knowing anything. The story is ordinary, with features borrowed from a familiar bucket. But it had energy, massive energy in more than one dimension. The title character, the city backgrounds, and most particularly the camera —...


Published October 19, 2024
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X2: X-Men United (2003)
The time has come for those who are different to stand united.
Filmmaker(s): Bryan Singer

Professor Charles Xavier and his team of genetically gifted superheroes face a rising tide of anti-mutant sentiment led by Col. William Stryker. Storm, Wolverine and Jean Grey must join their usual nemeses—Magneto and Mystique—to unhinge Stryker's scheme to exterminate all mutants.

Utterly Pedestrian I have enthusiastic hopes for big budget action pictures. That's because the market is so crowded, and the viewing public so visually sophisticated that we know that some thought must go into these things. This is especially so when you are building a franchise,...


Published October 8, 2024
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X-Men (2000)
Trust a few. Fear the rest.
Filmmaker(s): Bryan Singer

Two mutants, Rogue and Wolverine, come to a private academy for their kind whose resident superhero team, the X-Men, must oppose a terrorist organization with similar powers.

Missed a Chance One nice thing about this is the casting of McKellan and Stewart. Despite the latter's adventures with the stupid StarTrek, he is an intelligent actor, as is McKellan. They tower over the amateurs in this film as their characters should. About bad acting,...


Published September 30, 2024
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Wolfs (2024)
They're not partners. They're not friends. They're wolfs.
Filmmaker(s): Jon Watts

Hired to cover up a high-profile crime, a fixer soon finds his night spiralling out of control when he's forced to work with an unexpected counterpart.

Sundance Sundown One of the advantages of age is that I’ve seen older films when they were new. If you consider film viewing as at least a craft — as I do — then it matters that you are able to bring the personal anchoring of...


Published September 29, 2024
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Bubba Ho-Tep (2002)
The King vs. The King of the Dead.
Filmmaker(s): Don Coscarelli

Bubba Ho-tep tells the "true" story of what really did become of Elvis Presley. We find Elvis as an elderly resident in an East Texas rest home, who switched identities with an Elvis impersonator years before his "death," then missed his chance to switch back. He must team up with JFK and fight an ancient Egyptian mummy for the souls of their fellow residents.

The Singing Detective For those who don't know it, 'The Singing Detective' was the only decent thing I know that TeeVee has produced. It was one of those longish movies they call a miniseries. It featured a man in a hospital who imagined himself to be...


Published September 28, 2024
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