Category: Movies
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One of the Good Ones
Zootopia is surprisingly great, and a reminder of the value of family movies as parable
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Would That It Were So Simple
A cursory and non-reductive look at Hail, Caesar! by Joel and Ethan Coen
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It’s a Shame About Rey
Another note about The Force Awakens, merchandising, and spoiler culture. Contains huge spoilers, obviously.
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It’s True. All of It.
Why I unabashedly love Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and how much I’ve missed being able to unabashedly love a movie
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Lowest Common Denormative
What terrible reviews of Trainwreck tell us about the sorry state of pop-progressivism on the Internet
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Inside Out
Inside Out reminds us that we can’t be happy all of the time, an idea that angered, disgusted and frightened me.
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Avengers: Age of Um, Not So Much
Avengers: Age of Ultron does strain under the weight of years of TV shows and movies. Not Marvel’s, though.
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Train in Vain
Snowpiercer is the kind of weird semi-indie movie I’d thought had long gone extinct.
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The Curious Case of Tow Mater
Pixar sequels and another installment of “How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Multinational Entertainment Conglomerate”
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The Dude Abides
Or, “Blood Simple Gifts.” Towards a Grand Unified Theory of movies that mock the idea of a grand unified theory. (Spoilers for just about every Coen Brothers movie)