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Forum: Movie Reviews 02-03-20
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Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy worked beautifully because it was based on a...
Forum: Movie Reviews 02-03-20
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I don't know how one is supposed to turn a rather short book like J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit...
Forum: Movie Reviews 02-03-20
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More than seventy years ago, J.R.R. Tolkien wrote a story called "The Hobbit", in which the...
Forum: Movie Reviews 12-20-19
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As the final chapter of both the sequel trilogy of Star Wars and the Skywalker saga in general, The Rise of...
Forum: Movie Reviews 12-20-19
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It can't be denied that the original Star Wars trilogy is one of the most iconic...
Forum: Movie Reviews 12-20-19
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Ten years after the lesser Star Wars prequel trilogy wrapped up with the mostly solid...
Forum: Movie Reviews 12-20-19
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The final entry of the classic Star Wars trilogy, 1983's Return of the Jedi, is often...
Forum: Movie Reviews 12-20-19
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From the beginning, George Lucas had envisioned his 1977 epic Star Wars to be a...
Forum: Movie Reviews 12-20-19
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"A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away..."

From the moment these words filled up the...
Forum: Movie Reviews 12-20-19
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What's this? Can it be? A Star Wars prequel that's actually -- gasp! -- great? Believe it or not,...
Forum: Movie Reviews 12-20-19
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Disney's purchase of the Star Wars brand was something I never dreamed I would live to see. Considering...
Forum: Movie Reviews 12-20-19
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Finally, after a pair of underwhelming entries, George Lucas manages to recapture some...
Forum: Movie Reviews 12-20-19
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George Lucas' long-awaited Star Wars prequel The Phantom Menace divided critics and...
Forum: Movie Reviews 12-20-19
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In 1999, George Lucas' Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace was arguably the most...
Forum: Movie Reviews 06-09-19
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Sesame Street this ain't. Neither, unfortunately, is it Avenue Q. The Happytime Murders, a pet project...
Forum: Movie Reviews 06-04-19
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VAMPIRE HUNTER D: BLOODLUST Based on a...

VAMPIRE HUNTER D: BLOODLUST

Based on a horror book by Japanese author Hideyuki Kikuchi and with character designs by Final Fantasy's Yoshi-taka Amano, 1985's Vampire Hunter D was a low-budget,...
Forum: Movie Reviews 06-04-19
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VAMPIRE HUNTER D Vampire Hunter D has always...

VAMPIRE HUNTER D

Vampire Hunter D has always been a cult favorite of many Anime fans dating all the way back to what historians would call the "dark days of Anime". Back then, Anime had limited...
Forum: Movie Reviews 05-31-19
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Mamoru Hosoda's fifth animated feature, Mirai, may seem a bit more small scale compared to his earlier movies such as The...
Forum: Movie Reviews 05-31-19
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MODEST HEROES Modest Heroes, a 53-minute...

MODEST HEROES

Modest Heroes, a 53-minute (yes, that's how long it is) animated feature which is actually three fifteen-minute featurettes in one program, is the second animated release from Studio...
Forum: Movie Reviews 05-30-19
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THE BRAVE FROG (1989) At the surface, The...

THE BRAVE FROG (1989)

At the surface, The Brave Frog may seem like an innocuous animated time-waster for kids. It aspires to be a coming-of-age story of two tadpoles who struggle to maintain a...
Forum: Movie Reviews 05-27-19
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BIG FISH & BEGONIA The first thing I should...

BIG FISH & BEGONIA

The first thing I should mention about Big Fish and Begonia is that it is visually stunning. I do not recall seeing many Chinese animated productions (although I wouldn't be...
Forum: Movie Reviews 05-24-19
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What more can be said about My Neighbor Totoro? Get this movie. Immediately. Without a doubt one of the best...
Forum: Movie Reviews 05-24-19
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Having scored a box office success with Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Hayao Miyazaki was on his way to...
Forum: Movie Reviews 05-24-19
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Yoshiaki Kawajiri's Wicked City, based on a similarly titled book by Hideyuki Kikuchi (who also wrote Vampire Hunter D) has...
Forum: Movie Reviews 05-24-19
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Studio Ghibli had long established itself as the pinnacle of Japanese animation starting in the...