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  • Finding Dory

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    So following Moana, I watched the latest Pixar film, hoping that I’d be into it — I say this because I’ve started losing interest in Pixar films, as I wasn’t crazy about Inside Out, and I still haven’t found myself wanting to watch The Good Dinosaur. The verdict? It was pretty good, I liked it…

  • Moana

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    I did a Disney double bill tonight by watching Moana and Finding Dory back-to-back. Starting with Moana, you can’t find fault in the brilliant visuals, and it was mostly fine in terms of keeping my interest, but I wasn’t particularly engaged. I didn’t care for all of the songs, so the movie constantly lost me…

  • Doctor Strange

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    I was looking forward to watching this pretty much because of the sequences I saw in the ads with the Escher-like city transformations. So let’s start with the good: The movie does indeed present some action sequences that are quite novel, from those aforementioned city manipulations to the fight in Hong Kong that takes place…

  • Like it’s 1985

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    So I started the year by watching 30 movies from 1985, over a period of a month and a half. Why? Good question. It sorta happened by accident. During one of the first days of January, I watched The Goonies with my wife (she had never seen it), and not only did we have a really…

  • Rambo: First Blood Part II

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    So how did I end my 30-movie 1985 marathon? With one of the biggest movies of the year. I actually re-watched this movie a year or two ago (along with First Blood), and so it was still relatively fresh in my mind, but I still had fun watching it. Yes, it’s of the era, jingoistic,…

  • Witness

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    I had fond memories of this movie, and I’m glad to say it’s still pretty good. It’s also a movie I remember appreciating later on, not when it came out — since I was too young at the time, and was more a fan of Ford as an action hero. But yeah, it’s a good…

  • Young Sherlock Holmes

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    I remember liking this when I was a kid, and I actually had a pretty good time watching it again. It has that fun adventure feel that you get from something produced by Spielberg (back in those days), and that CG character (the first use of CG in a movie to depict a character) still…

  • Phenomena

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    I guess Creepers is what it was called for its North American release, but it’s better known as Phenomena. Although I’ve been meaning to watch one of his movies forever, this is my first Dario Argento film. I’ll go out and say it, I thought this film was terrible, although I did think that the batshit…

  • Commando

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    This was still pretty enjoyable, for what it is. The montage when he puts on his equipment before the final confrontation is still so classic, and overall the action is pretty good. And man, whatever happened to Rae Dawn Chong!

  • The Black Cauldron

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    I remember that back then, this was a low for Disney animation — it was a pretty big flop, in a series of animated flops for Disney, before it got its groove back with The Little Mermaid. But I remember liking this movie, although I’m guessing it’s because I liked the dark-ish fantasy setting. Unfortunately, it…