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The Black Tavern (1972)
Filmmaker(s): Teddy Yip Wing-Cho

This sword-filled thriller centers on the title location--an inn where the down and dirty meet to plot nefarious doings. Award winning actor Ku Feng stars as the "Whip Devil," while the luminous and lethal Shih Szu plays "The Lady Hermit" who has a surprise in store for all the double-crossing masters of mayhem.

Zombies This is I think my first Shaw Brothers film. I think the formula is simple stories, easy stereotypes, and lots of (for then) clever fighting. The scene here is a remote inn, which we see in four setups. There’s a really fake looking model for...


Published June 17, 2025
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The Triplets of Belleville (2003)
Get your hands together for The Triplets of Belleville!
Filmmaker(s): Sylvain Chomet

When her grandson is kidnapped during the Tour de France, Madame Souza and her beloved pooch Bruno team up with the Belleville Sisters—an aged song-and-dance team from the days of Fred Astaire—to rescue him.

Dream Stories see. How many stories are within this story. There's the show at the beginning which our heroine watches that gets transformed into her dream about the capture of the grandson she'll never have. When that show comes alive as reality, it gets mirrored back...


Published June 17, 2025
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Songs from the Second Floor (2000)
Filmmaker(s): Roy Andersson

A monumental traffic jam serves as the backdrop for the lives of the inhabitants of a Swedish city.

Cartoonish this is not cartoonish as the term is commonly used to mean simplified or childish. Instead, I mean it as stained glass artists did to imply the evocation of something by merely providing the outline. Such cartoons were considered magical, giving meaning to something not...


Published June 17, 2025
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Invitation to a Murder (2023)
Everyone is a suspect.
Filmmaker(s): Stephen Shimek

A reclusive billionaire invites six seemingly random strangers to his island estate in the south of England. Aspiring detective Miranda Green finds the mysterious invitation too alluring to pass up. When another guest turns up dead, Miranda must get to the bottom of the malicious plot behind the gathering.

Hidden Fathers, Lost Mothers is a lesson in what not to do if you decide to milk instead of going a genre. The genre of course is defined by Agatha Christie. In its pure form is has a remote location, a murder, and then others,...


Published June 17, 2025
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A Few Good Men (1992)
In the heart of the nation's capital, in a courthouse of the U.S. government, one man will stop at nothing to keep his honor, and one will stop at nothing to find the truth.
Filmmaker(s): Rob Reiner

When cocky military lawyer Lt. Daniel Kaffee and his co-counsel, Lt. Cmdr. JoAnne Galloway, are assigned to a murder case, they uncover a hazing ritual that could implicate high-ranking officials such as shady Col. Nathan Jessep.

Rosencrantz and Guidenstern writing this in 2025 more than 30 years after seeing it, and probably 25 since writing the first IMDB comment, alas now deleted because of some complaint to IMDB. Watching it now, the whole context has changed. I know quite a few unbalanced...


Published June 17, 2025
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Fair Game (2010)
Wife. Mother. Spy.
Filmmaker(s): Doug Liman

A devoted wife and mother leads a secret life as a CIA agent until her husband’s article exposes a scandal, putting her identity and loved ones at risk. As her world crumbles, she must navigate the fallout of her double life.

Choices big parts of life are about choosing. That is why, I believe, that we are so drawn to fiction. When we enter a work of fiction, we are entering an entire world where every single element is chosen. Characters may seem to grab control but...


Published March 22, 2025
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001)
Let the magic begin.
Filmmaker(s): Chris Columbus

Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11th birthday, he learns he's a powerful wizard—with a place waiting for him at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As he learns to harness his newfound powers with the help of the school's kindly headmaster, Harry uncovers the truth about his parents' deaths—and about the villain who's to blame.

Hermione's Mouth a long time, we have been warned about what will happen when a couple large companies own all the news, publicity, publishing and film channels. Now, we have the results, a film product that is as moribund as Microsoft software. In both the...


Published March 12, 2025
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
The rebellion begins.
Filmmaker(s): David Yates

Returning for his fifth year of study at Hogwarts, Harry is stunned to find that his warnings about the return of Lord Voldemort have been ignored. Left with no choice, Harry takes matters into his own hands, training a small group of students to defend themselves against the dark arts.

Nothing Up My Sleeve were previous editions of the franchise that I liked. One had a real rhythm; another leveraged architecture in a truly competent way. I suppose if you are invested in the books, this one advances the story a bit: some few revelations; another...


Published March 11, 2025
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
Dark and difficult times lie ahead.
Filmmaker(s): Mike Newell

When Harry Potter's name emerges from the Goblet of Fire, he becomes a competitor in a grueling battle for glory among three wizarding schools—the Triwizard Tournament. But since Harry never submitted his name for the Tournament, who did? Now Harry must confront a deadly dragon, fierce water demons and an enchanted maze only to find himself in the cruel grasp of He Who Must Not Be Named.

Unmagical bottom line is that the first two films engaged us on the sheer visual invention of the magical world. The third film was a good film as a film, architectural, Sculpted rhythm that matched the physical spaces shown. This one fails on both accounts. Oh,...


Published March 11, 2025
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Code Name: Geronimo (2012)

When the rumored whereabouts of Osama bin Laden are revealed, the CIA readies a team of seasoned U.S. Navy SEALs for the mission of a lifetime. Despite inconclusive evidence that bin Laden is inside the compound, and ignoring the possible ramifications of an unannounced attack on Pakistani soil, the Pentagon orders the attack. The SEAL Team bands together to complete their mission of justice in a riveting final showdown.

FUBAR suppose we need to separate this comment into the effectiveness of the movie, how accurately it shows what happened, and some views about the operation completely outside the film. About the film. The script tries to humanise a few of the characters, primarily the guy...


Published March 9, 2025
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