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  • The Wind Rises

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    As I mentioned the other day, I’ve decided to catch up on recent Ghibli releases I’m embarrassed to say I hadn’t watched. Following From Up on Poppy Hill, I watched The Wind Rises, which at the time was possibly going to be Miyazaki’s final film – something he’s said a few times though, and already…

  • From Up on Poppy Hill

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    Even though I’ve always loved Ghibli films (and for the record, my favorite is still My Neighbor Totoro), I never got around to watching the last few films that came out of the studio, starting with From Up on Poppy Hill, and those that followed. I’m finally rectifying that, and started by watching Poppy Hill…

  • The Big Short

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    In the end I found myself enjoying this movie, but it took a while to get into the groove of it. At first, I was really annoyed by the editing style Adam McKay decided to use (lots of old school MTV-style cuts and non sequiturs) – it really felt forced to me, and so it…

  • Pee-Wee’s Big Holiday

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    I thought this was a hell of a fun movie to watch. Sure, it’s not perfect, and there are lots of dud jokes, but overall I found myself laughing quite a bit, and I just dug the general weirdness of the movie, and the general atmosphere. They did a pretty good job at resurrecting Pee-Wee,…

  • Creed

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    Enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I would, including the pretty subdued performance by Stallone. Sure, there are still some cheesy bits – I’m thinking especially of the end of the training montage where he’s running in the streets, followed by the dudes on the bikes, and then starts punching in the air…

  • Inside Out

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    I’m going to be going against the grain I think, by saying that I wasn’t really that crazy about this movie. I can appreciate that it’s well made, but it just wasn’t something that I found myself enjoying. In fact, I started watching it a while back, and then it took until now to finally…

  • You’re Next

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    I ended up watching this last week after my wife started watching it. Like I said in my Crimson Peak post, I don’t find myself getting the urge to watch horror movies a lot these days, but I can still have fun watching one. This wasn’t bad, but I felt like the “twist” (which I won’t…

  • Crimson Peak

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    I quite liked this. Sure, I’m a fan of Guillermo del Toro’s work, but I’ve found myself being less into horror movies of late, and so this wasn’t something that was particularly high on my list of things I wanted to watch. But this felt more like a ghost story than pure horror – sure…

  • Akira

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    I have literally watched this movie dozens of times throughout my life – probably the film I’ve watched the most ever – but it had been quite a while since the last time. I still remember buying the first VHS release, and paying something like $50 or $60 for it – and that tape got…

  • Neo Tokyo

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    Continuing with my Katsuhiro Otomo marathon, Neo Tokyo is another anthology movie that was also first released in 1987 (same as Robot Carnival). This one only includes 3 shorts (and all together it’s only about 50 minutes long), but I’d say I enjoyed it more than Robot Carnival, especially the Otomo short, which is much…