Category: Movies
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No, Virginia
John Carter is not a movie adaptation of A Princess of Mars, and that’s my biggest problem with it.
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A Cookie Filled With Arsenic
Sweet Smell of Success is a classic movie with one of the greatest screenplays in the history of cinema. The Duellists is… not. I don’t understand why The Castro decided to run them together.
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Heart Felt
We’re long past due for sincerity to make a comeback, and The Muppets are the perfect ones to bring it.
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They Don’t Make ‘Em Like That Anymore
Captain America: The First Avenger is another case of Marvel making franchise movies better than they need to be.
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Autobots! Roll (your eyes) out!
The Transformers movies are the after-effects of the 1990s disguised as nostalgia for the 1980s.
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Spielberg & Abrams At The Movies
Super 8 is a movie about making and watching movies, and it’s best not to know any more than that.
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Ms. Verisimilitude for Her
Thoughts after watching Bridesmaids and what I’m hoping is witnessing the slow heat death of Hollywood.
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Did Someone Say… Dance?
Sucker Punch tries to elevate the turn-your-brain-off movie to the level of icepick lobotomy. It’s thoroughly disappointing that it works as often as it does.
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The Life of the Easily-Distracted Mind
Thoughts about high art, low art, and false populism in the movie business.
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Wingtips of Desire
I don’t have time to write too much about The Adjustment Bureau, but I can’t let a pun title go to waste.