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Just got back from Spider-man. I like the Tom Holland movies and MCU movies in general but I’m not a huge fanboy. I don’t know what the word is for a movie that actually lives up to the hype. It’s a feeling I’m not familiar with. No Way Home is goofy and fun and heartfelt and feels like a Sam Raimi movie, and not just in the obvious parts.
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John Wick : Chapter 2 - (2017)
Now that I've given John Wick a chance, I find that the first sequel is actually a decent addition to this group of films (including Nobody) which are hyper-violent but also, almost a kind of choreographed dance. A dance of death, admittedly, but so vibrant with neon-infused visual flair, style and fashion that it makes violent action-thrillers of the past look bare and naked. Poor old Wick gets dragged so reluctantly into an overwhelmingly bad situation that you can't help but side with him - even if he puzzlingly hasn't given his dog a name. Dude. Give your dog a name. Peter Serafinowicz showed up for a bit of a cameo - which made me happy - and the villains in this are superbly awful. For what this is, it's awfully slick, strong, sassy and as much fun as you can have with something as unpleasant as violent death. Really expands on the first film.
8/10
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Just the idea of someone getting nominated seven times, meaning she had at least seven performances that were considered for the actual best performance of the entire year, but never got that validation. I think about how things like that must feel.
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Just the idea of someone getting nominated seven times, meaning she had at least seven performances that were considered for the actual best performance of the entire year, but never got that validation. I think about how things like that must feel.
Glenn Close and Peter O'Toole received eight and never won.
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Spider-Man No Way Home: The messiest but most satisfying and grandiose MCU Spider-Man film, hitting Endgame levels of fanboy gratification. A fitting finale (ya know, in the slasher movie way where theyll still make a dozen more) not just to MCU Spidey, but the previous franchises as well. It gave me a childish, big goofy smile throughout the entire third act. I loved it despite its narrative hiccups.
5/5
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Re-watch just to see McQueen & MacGraw together.
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Re-watch just to see McQueen & MacGraw together.
Deborah Kerr also received seven nominations and never won.
Glenn Close and Peter O'Toole received eight and never won.
Glenn Close and Peter O'Toole received eight and never won.
I do like watching Steve McQueen steal another man's wife.
You could also posit that MacGraw stole another womans husband.
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The Florida Project - (2017)
I had initial disquieting rumblings when I started watching The Florida Project, the first 10 minutes kind of making me apprehensive. I didn't want our attention completely swallowed by the little kids just playing around and enjoying themselves. This didn't feel like a movie. By the end I had been completely won over - our attention remained with the kids, but it was the terrible effect the adults in this film were having on them that created something pretty profound and moving. I'd call that something clever and unique, making this film stand out. Rarely do you get something from such a different perspective. Willem Dafoe I have a lot of respect for in the varying parts he plays - like a man who never wants to get comfortable acting, and always wants to challenge himself some way. I haven't seen any of Sean Baker's films before, but if I go by this one I feel compelled to see quite a few more.
9/10
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Three Women (Ernst Lubitsch, 1924) 5.5/10 70 min
Panic (John Gilling, 1963) 5/10
4 for Texas (Robert Aldrich, 1963) 5.5/10
The French Dispatch (Wes Anderson, 2021) 7/10
It's [not really] surprising what people will do to make/stop art or get a newspaper story about it.
The Invisible Menace (John Farrow, 1938) 5/10
They Drive by Night (Raoul Walsh, 1940) 6/10
The Big Punch (Sherry Shourds, 1948) + 5/10
Klaus (Sergio Pablos & Carlos Martínez López, 2019) 7/10
Toymaker Klaus and a spoiled rich kid team up to bring a whole village, especially the children, to life.
The War of the Robots (Al Bradly [Alfonso Brescia], 1978) 3/10
The Hand of God (Paolo Sorrentino, 2019) + 6.5/10
Dead Asleep (Skye Borgman, 2021) + 6/10
Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America (Emily Kunstler & Sarah Kunstler, 2021) - 7/10
Lawyer Jeffery Robinson provides plenty of historical facts and personal experiences to support the idea that the Confederacy is alive and well and even supported by the U.S. Federal government.
The Wild North (Andrew Marton, 1952) 6/10
Sauvage / Wild (Camille Vidal-Naquet, 2018) 5/10
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (Mark Robson, 1958) - 6.5/10
Rumble (Hamish Grieve, 2021) + 6/10
Arrogant world champ of Monster Wrestling eventually has to take on the son of a former champ.
Ali in Wonderland (Djouhra Abouda & Alain Bonnamy, 1975) 6/10
The Ice Follies of 1939 (Reinhold Schünzel, 1939) + 5/10
Fourteen (Dan Sallitt, 2019) + 6/10
Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience (Terrence Malick, 2016) 7/10
Spectacular imagery often recalls The Tree of Life.
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The Trygon Factor (1966)
This one was fun. Based on an Edgar Wallace story, featuring murders and bank robberies and double crosses and multiple nuns being punched and groovy set designs and a jazzy soundtrack. And our hero is a middle-aged, white-haired detective who inexplicably has beautiful women throwing themselves at him at every turn.
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The Florida Project - (2017)
I had initial disquieting rumblings when I started watching The Florida Project, the first 10 minutes kind of making me apprehensive. I didn't want our attention completely swallowed by the little kids just playing around and enjoying themselves. This didn't feel like a movie. By the end I had been completely won over - our attention remained with the kids, but it was the terrible effect the adults in this film were having on them that created something pretty profound and moving. I'd call that something clever and unique, making this film stand out. Rarely do you get something from such a different perspective. Willem Dafoe I have a lot of respect for in the varying parts he plays - like a man who never wants to get comfortable acting, and always wants to challenge himself some way. I haven't seen any of Sean Baker's films before, but if I go by this one I feel compelled to see quite a few more.
9/10
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