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Lupin III: The First

By | Jan 17, 2022 | Movies, Reviews

Contrary to its title, it is neither an origin story for the gentleman thief nor is it even set particularly far back in his continuity. Instead, it is referring to what the film is i.e. the first of its kind: a fully computer-animated Lupin III film.

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Hilda and the Mountain King

By | Jan 11, 2022 | Television

It’s difficult to categorize Hilda and the Mountain King, in no small part because Hilda and the Mountain King throws itself into so many different categories. Produced and marketed as a feature film, director Andy Coyle and screenwriters Luke Pearson and Stephanie Simpson attempt to tell a story that stands on its own while also tying up loose […]

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Spider-Man: No Way Home

By | Dec 20, 2021 | Movies, Reviews

Smashing box office records, even by pre-COVID standards, it seems like everyone in the U.S. will have seen this by the time this review goes live. What follows is a short spoiler-free review of Spider-Man: No Way Home limited to the stuff you’ve seen in trailers. After the break, however, is a full-on spoiler-filled review […]

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The Summit of the Gods

By | Dec 13, 2021 | Movies, Reviews

Le Sommet des Dieux is a French/Luxembourgian animated film adaptation of the Japanese manga 神々の山嶺 (Kamigami no Itadaki) by Jiro Taniguchi, which I watched with an English dub produced by its American distributor Netflix. It focuses on a mountaineering magazine photographer named Fukumachi on the hunt for famed Everest scaler George Mallory’s fabled lost camera, […]

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Ghostbusters: Afterlife

By | Nov 22, 2021 | Movies, Reviews

Five-and-a-half years ago, Paul Feig directed an all-female Ghostbusters reboot, which included the original surviving cast in cameo roles as new characters. Afterlife, which was greenlit after its predecessor proved to be a box office disappointment, is a thoroughly different beast: helmed by Jason Reitman, the son of original director Ivan Reitman himself, it centers […]

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Eternals

By | Nov 10, 2021 | Movies, Reviews

This will be a spoiler-free review. The latest film out of Marvel Studios is Eternals, which had a lot of hype and even more questions about who these new characters are to join the MCU or what they are doing on Earth in the first place. The movie’s premise is a group of immortal beings […]

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Dune

By | Oct 26, 2021 | Movies, Reviews

After what seems like years of speculation and waiting, the release of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune is finally upon us. Dune is one of those titles that seems to always show up on lists of impossible or difficult to film, and boy have there have been attempts. French filmmaker, Alejandro Jodorowsky, notoriously tried and failed to adapt […]

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Injustice

By | Oct 20, 2021 | Movies, Reviews

Normally after watching an abysmal failure like Injustice the question of “why” comes up. Why does this exist? The economic logic that satisfies this question fails to completely explain the shortcomings of this film but begins shine a light on them. To put the question of quality aside for a second, it makes all the […]

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Venom: Let There Be Carnage

By | Oct 6, 2021 | Movies, Reviews

The first Venom appeared to have been released from a time capsule dated 2005. Here was a superhero film that outside of leads Tom Hardy and Michelle Williams had none of the pretense or associated quality that has developed around the genre in the past decade and a half. It had a titular single by […]

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No Time to Die

By | Oct 6, 2021 | Movies, Reviews

No Time to Die, the 25th official James Bond movie, is a film with a lot to prove: it’s been six years since Spectre (meaning it’s been nine since the last good film, Skyfall), and the world has changed greatly in the meantime, meaning the pressure on Daniel Craig’s fifth and final outing to be […]

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Ninjababy

By | Sep 21, 2021 | Movies, Reviews

Based on Inga H. Sætre’s graphic novel “Fallteknikk (Fall Technique),” Ninjababy is a Norwegian comedy-drama that tells the hilarious and poignant story of Rakel Pedersen (Kristine Kujath Thorp), a graphic design school dropout who discovers she is six months pregnant. Too late to have an abortion, Rakel looks for someone who can adopt the sneaky […]

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