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  • Favorite Media of 2014

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    In what has become an annual tradition – I’ve done it for the past 4 years, although those posts are now all lost to the ether due to my big server shutdown of 2014 – I like to end the year with a big post that goes through my favorite media of the year. This…

  • Guardians of the Galaxy

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    I finally got around to watching Guardians of the Galaxy recently, and I did find it to be a pretty fun movie. I do take issue with people who were describing it as the second coming of sci-fi – it’s not that – but I did have a really good time watching it, enjoying the…

  • Tusk

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    This has got to be the weirdest movie I’ve seen in a while. Wow. It’s just all over the place, from wacky to cringing “Canadian” humour to abject horror that, at moments, leaves you creeped out to no end. I’m just glad Kevin Smith is left to do stuff like this, whether it’s good or…

  • Automata

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    I really, really liked this movie. I’d say it’s the closest to a Blade Runner I’ve seen since, well, Blade Runner. It has a similar vibe and presentation of the future, mixed in with some classic Asimov robot “directives.” And there’s something really haunting and emotional about the way they portray the robots, despite the…

  • Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me

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    I do still like the Twin Peaks movie because I get to experience more of this world, but watching it again last night I was reminded why I will never like it like I do the series. The problem with the movie is that it only focuses on the dark aspects of the series. What…

  • Stanley Kubrick’s Boxes

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    This is a fantastic documentary about the incredibly vast – and quite ridiculous – archives that Kubrick kept as he did research on his films (or even as he did research on what to do next). It’s fascinating, really, and you can watch it online here.

  • Enemy

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    This is a very weird movie, and I can’t recommend it enough. I watched it a few days ago, and I’m still thinking about it. I watched this pretty much after watching Villeneuve’s Prisoners – which I also really liked – but man, this is a much more interesting film. The extreme yellow color-correction did…

  • Lucy

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    It’s no secret that I really don’t like Scarlet Johansson – I think she’s a terrible actress – but I still had fun watching this. It actually went much crazier than I thought it would, and that’s a good thing. It was a satisfying little movie to watch, and good to see Besson directing stuff…

  • The Shining

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    Doesn’t matter how many times I watch it, I’m always blown away by the opening. And even though Jack kinda does come off as a caricature of madness, that’s just because what he does here has become so insanely legendary. The only thing that bothers me to this day is how Jack gets out of…

  • Prisoners

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    This was a hell of a good movie. Intense, sure, but great story, great characters, great acting, and interesting until the very end. More movies like this, please.