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Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) -
The Quiet Ones (2014) -

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Archie: To Riverdale and Back (1990) - perhaps made to capitalize on both the 50th anniversary of Archie and the success (at the time) of NBC's cartoon series The New Archies, which depicted the Riverdale kids as middle schoolers, someone came up with the idea of having the Riverdale gang being grown up and attending their 15-year high school reunion.

Archie became a lawyer and instead of choosing Betty or Veronica, he has a fiancee in a third party who could care less about the old days. Betty became a teacher who tends to be bullied by her current boyfriend. Veronica is well..Veronica, a four-time divorcee who still pines for Archie. Jughead is a divorced psychiatrist who is trying to have a relationship with his son, who he gained custody of. Reggie is still Reggie, only he is now a gym owner.

As the reunion moves on ahead, the classic love triangle starts to re-emerge while Reggie, with approval from Mr. Lodge, plans to evict Pops from his iconic soda shop so he can expand his gym. In the midst of all the chaos, Archie finds a sense of nostalgia that may make him change his mind about leaving Riverdale.

It's harmless fun, the jokes and hijinks are like that of the comics and the core gang are nearly reminiscent of their comic counterparts. A polar opposite of the current CW series Riverdale, this is one just harmless mindless family fun with a bit of adult humor done in a tasteful manner.

Final Rating: B

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nerds

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Only the cool ones that know how to get away with smoking at school.

or Can't decide.

This caught me way off guard. So whacky.

The Hateful Eight +

Still waiting for Quentin to hit puberty but he has mondo talent and does great work when he's not trying to do violent porn. His dialog is still funny and elaborate. I loved the way this movie looked. Performances were all super. I enjoyed it. Jackie Brown I thought he had a good idea with the romantic writing between Max Cherry and Jackie, but he never revisited that. I wish he would. I guess people don't think it mixes good with blood lust. It gave me something better to look at but, whatever. I'm getting off track.

The Emperor's Club

Kevin Kline stars as Arthur Hundert, a dedicated and inspiring classics professor who has devoted his life to teaching at a prep school for boys. New student Sedgewick Bell, the headstrong son of a powerful senator, joins his class and inexorably alters Mr. Hundert's life. It is a clash of wills and personalities as these two people seemingly battle for the hearts and souls of the other students at St. Benedictus

Among the students are a young Jesse Eisenberg and Paul Dano who we also see 25 years later played by different actors, they should of had the young Jesse Eisenberg play himself 25 years later as he would have nailed it

Did you stay till the very end of the credit?

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I can see why people like Creation better, but Creation is not 20 times better. Honestly both prequels are on par with each other to me.

Saw this last night in the theatre for the very first time. Then I realized how much of a masterpiece this is when I saw it was made in 1959.

This movie was long, but I enjoyed it, A LOT.

Great acting all around, and as someone who didn't know too much about the background story, I was completely hooked during the entire movie.

For you to compare:
Detroit
The Hurt Locker
0 Dark 30

Exactly, which is why I may lean towards a 4 as a final rating. I was expecting a pleasant time-filler while I farted around on my phone, but it grabbed my attention.

Hahahahahahahaha!

I liked this one enough to give it a I watched it as part of the October Horror Movie Challenge

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The Wolf Of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013) +
Mainly entertaining bio-drama but just too bloated and ott in places

Eagle Eye is the second outing for D.J. Caruso and Shia LaBeouf. Their first collaboration was the modernized version of Rear Window, the boringly average Disturbia. This time around they both are playing on a bigger scale. More action, more special effects, more of the same stuff we've seen before. Eagle Eye is a run of the mill action thriller flick that tries to be bigger than it actually is. The way the film plays out, I expected some big conspiracy theory, and was let down by the route they decided to go.

LaBeouf has done some interesting work recently. He has finally decided to act it seems. Look at his prior work though; a troubled young teen or adult that screams at people while he runs around. Crystal Skull, Transformers 1 and 2 and now Eagle Eye. I don't see a difference between any of these characters, but maybe the script never calls for one. Thankfully he's gone off the deep end and in return we are getting some (at the very least) interesting performances.

Monaghan plays the female lead and is lured in by the classic "do this or the kid dies" mumbo-jumbo. Until the end reveals that it's all a part of this elaborate plan to do something pretty simple. This leads into a problem I have with this film. Everything is so elaborate to the point that things just don't make sense.

Some scenes were really ridiculous, such as the electrical wires killing the one guy in the Se7en location rip-off and the way the voice helps them get away every single time. The chase scenes are thrilling, to a point, then it becomes tedious. Billy Bob Thorton's appearance is random, doesn't seem natural and his character transition doesn't seem real. Rosario Dawson plays the role of the one cop who suspects something is up. Again nothing new or memorable. She serves the role about as much as she needs or wants to.

Caruso does have an eye for some suspense, this film might be able to entertain someone on a basic level. Yet as a whole the film fails to deliver on the grand spectacle that it wants to. It seems to be about bigger things than it actually is, which makes it pretty empty inside. I could care less about the people involved or the events that take place.

I have fond memories of watching that show after school, and I had a massive crush on Kelly Kapowski. When I got older and saw Showgirls I just remember thinking how upset Jessie would have been at herself.

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The Cow (1969) by Dariush Mehrjui



The Stranger (1991) by Satyajit Ray

Excellent movie night with these rare melodramas.

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