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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.

22 Oct Lola (2022)

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Retroactive Reinterpretation 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

Comedy

Mystery

Crime

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

22 Oct 7 Women and a Murder (2021)

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Minivan to Chucky’s 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.

19 Oct Nimona (2023)

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Your Local Manager 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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X-Men (2000)

Trust a few. Fear the rest.

Filmmaker(s): Bryan Singer

Adventure

Action

Science Fiction

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.

30 Sep X-Men (2000)

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Missed a Chance 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

Action

Comedy

Thriller

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.

29 Sep Wolfs (2024)

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Sundance Sundown 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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Man from Reno (2014)

The greatest mystery she's ever written. And it could be her last…

Filmmaker(s): Dave Boyle

A mystery outside of San Francisco brings together small-town sheriff Paul Del Moral, Japanese author Aki Akahori, and a traveler from Reno who soon disappears, leaving behind his suitcase and a trail of questions.

20 Sep Man from Reno (2014)

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Shell Game I continue to find comments original posted to IMDB, deleted because of a complaint by an unseen adversary — and therefore lost. However, a re-viewing brings this later comment. Spoilers here. This is much like ‘Chinatown’ with some ‘Vertigo’ mixed in. Both noirs of...

Published September 20, 2024

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Anatomy of a Fall (2023)

Did she do it?

Filmmaker(s): Justine Triet

Thriller

Mystery

Crime

A woman is suspected of her husband's murder, and their blind son faces a moral dilemma as the sole witness.

20 Sep Anatomy of a Fall (2023)

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Pairy Maison framing here is a courtroom drama, very simple and straightforward. A process that is (mostly) inhuman with a prosecutor we want to hate. We never discover what actually happened, and the craft here is in taking a simple ambiguity — did this woman...

Published September 20, 2024

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Quantum Cowboys (2022)

Observation always affects the outcome.

Filmmaker(s): Geoff Marslett

Two hapless drifters, Frank and Bruno, team up with Linde to recover her land and trek across 1870's Southern Arizona to find an elusive frontier musician. The complex quantum time theory is blended with philosophical musings about art as the way we understand our history and memories, with gunfights, horses, dance halls, cacti, and saloons!

19 Sep Quantum Cowboys (2022)

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Overlapping Takes a bit of a philosophical stew but with naive ingredients. I don’t know how many movies we’ll get with this notion of parallel universes, each of which are occupied, or can be. But set that aside and accept it as a useful trope. In...

Published September 19, 2024

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The Wild Robot (2024)

Filmmaker(s): Chris Sanders

Animation

Science Fiction

Family

After a shipwreck, an intelligent robot called Roz is stranded on an uninhabited island. To survive the harsh environment, Roz bonds with the island's animals and cares for an orphaned baby goose.

15 Sep The Wild Robot (2024)

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Programmed the front I have to say that both the adults were affected, cried, emoted. This is a Mommy story in a sea of Daddy stories, especially animated ‘family’ fare. It pulled on some formulaic strings, enough for me to say that this knows the...

Published September 15, 2024

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Twisters (2024)

Chase. Ride. Survive.

Filmmaker(s): Lee Isaac Chung

As storm season intensifies, the paths of former storm chaser Kate Carter and reckless social-media superstar Tyler Owens collide when terrifying phenomena never seen before are unleashed. The pair and their competing teams find themselves squarely in the paths of multiple storm systems converging over central Oklahoma in the fight of their lives.

25 Aug Twisters (2024)

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Surrey with the Fringe on Top might be enough to build a movie around special effects that don’t involve a fight or monsters. These usually fall into the catastrophe category. The key to that category it seems, is the noir necessity that the catastrophe happens...

Published August 25, 2024

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