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Jasper Jones (2017)
A knock at the window. Their lives changed forever.
Filmmaker(s): Rachel Perkins
Drama
Mystery
Thriller

Fourteen-year-old Charlie's life changes when Jasper takes his help to dispose of the body of his girlfriend, Laura. He decides to look for the murderer and falls in love with Laura's younger sister.

04 Sep

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The Girls background, I am an American emigrated to Australia, someone particularly aware of embedded racism and misogyny in the US. It poisons the social contract that is behind the grand experiment that was the US. So I am curious about how similar dynamics have...


Published September 4, 2025
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Ice Age 5: Collision Course (2016)
One small step. One giant mess.
Filmmaker(s): Mike Thurmeier
Adventure
Animation
Family
Comedy

Set after the events of Continental Drift, Scrat's epic pursuit of his elusive acorn catapults him outside of Earth, where he accidentally sets off a series of cosmic events that transform and threaten the planet. To save themselves from peril, Manny, Sid, Diego, and the rest of the herd leave their home and embark on a quest full of thrills and spills, highs and lows, laughter and adventure while traveling to exotic new lands and locations.

13 May

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Acorny cannot recall which of the previous I liked and why. It may have been the story that included the telling of a story. But that depends on coherence, and what have here are several sties or skits smeared into each other. There are the...


Published May 13, 2022
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The Fifth Wave (2016)
Protect Your Own
Filmmaker(s): J Blakeson
Science Fiction
Adventure
Action

16-year-old Cassie Sullivan tries to survive in a world devastated by the waves of an alien invasion that has already decimated the population and knocked mankind back to the Stone Age.

01 Jul

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Water made for kids, by kids. It seems safe enough: use a best seller from the YA bookshelf. Have some reasonable action scenes. Hire a known kid actor. Insert a romance and a twist, and take the money. It should not be fair for me to...


Published July 1, 2022
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Goldstone (2016)
Where worlds collide.
Filmmaker(s): Ivan Sen
Crime
Thriller

Indigenous Detective Jay Swan arrives in the frontier town of Goldstone on a missing persons inquiry. What seems like a simple investigation unearths an intricate web of crime, corruption, human trafficking, and coordinated exploitation of indigenous people’s land. Jay must bury his differences with young local cop Josh, so together they can bring justice to Goldstone.

21 Sep

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Less Lessons shape of this is ordinary. The forces at work are familiar: big company, coopted locals, indigenous victims. It happens to be well crafted, so is better in quality than most. But it has two features that endear it, at least to me. It has...


Published September 21, 2022
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The Great Wall (2016)
1700 years to build. 5500 miles long. What were they trying to keep out?
Filmmaker(s): Zhang Yimou
Action
Adventure
Fantasy

European mercenaries searching for black powder become embroiled in the defense of the Great Wall of China against a horde of monstrous creatures.

06 Nov

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Jump! am an admirer of this filmmaker, and he does better when he gets closer to a single soul or small collection of them. But for large projects he seems to be able to understand how to group extras and their CG equivalent for...


Published November 6, 2022
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Train to Busan (2016)
Life-or-death survival begins.
Filmmaker(s): Yeon Sang-ho
Horror
Thriller
Action
Adventure

When a zombie virus pushes Korea into a state of emergency, those trapped on an express train to Busan must fight for their own survival.

20 Apr

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Ahead of schedule is simply a hectic escape film, where all the attention is toward anticipating where the viewer thinks it is going and staying a half step ahead. I’d say it is remarkable in how well it succeeds; I cannot recall it ever being...


Published April 20, 2024
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The Love Witch (2016)
She loved men... to death
Filmmaker(s): Anna Biller
Horror
Comedy
Romance

A modern-day witch uses spells and magic to get men to fall in love with her, with deadly consequences.

09 Aug

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Faces, Drapes is much celebrated by the critics, most of whom I am sure never saw the referenced films when they were new. It rides a wave, I suppose of feminist films that can use ‘the gaze’ to their advantage. If you have not seen this,...


Published August 9, 2024
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Captain America: Civil War (2016)
United we stand. Divided we fall.
Filmmaker(s): Joe Russo, Anthony Russo
Adventure
Action
Science Fiction

Following the events of Age of Ultron, the collective governments of the world pass an act designed to regulate all superhuman activity. This polarizes opinion amongst the Avengers, causing two factions to side with Iron Man or Captain America, which causes an epic battle between former allies.

17 Jun

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Dialog matters is the second of the Russo Marvel movies. I find it less tedious than other Marvel movies for two reasons: the dialog is superb, at the level of real films. This spills over to a reasonably successful mix of humour in the fights,...


Published June 17, 2025
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Shin Godzilla (2016)
A god incarnate. A city doomed.
Filmmaker(s): Shinji Higuchi, Hideaki Anno
Action
Science Fiction
Horror

When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster's weakness and its mysterious ties to a foreign superpower. But time is not on their side - the greatest catastrophe to ever befall the world is about to evolve right before their very eyes.

17 Jun

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Evolution vs Adaptation you read anything about this, it likely focuses on the fairly brutal commentary on the state of Japanese civil servants and politicians — and dependence on the US. It is three quarters of the film and why it was so successful in...


Published June 17, 2025
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David Bull: The Great Wave (2015)

13 May

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A Hello that I am free from posting on IMDB, I can watch films and study alternative film sources that matter. Movies emerged from a context. I understand that context in the West well enough for my purposes. The narrative devices I study are inherited...


Published May 13, 2022
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