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Month: May 2017

  • Firewalker

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    This is not a good movie. To be fair, I sorta remembered it wasn’t a good movie, but I was still in the mood to take it in, and there was some nostalgic fun in seeing just how “Cannon” it feels. It looks cheap, it feels cheap, and although Louis Gossett Jr. does a decent…

  • Psycho III

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    Oh, don’t worry, I’m not done yet with my 1986 movie marathon yet. The 20th film on the agenda was Psycho III, a film I barely remembered anything about — I wasn’t even sure I’d ever seen it, until I saw the suicide in the bath sequence, which I recognized for some reason. I don’t remember…

  • Blade Runner

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    Following The Fifth Element, the second part of last night’s double bill was a re-watching of Blade Runner — I watched the 2007 “Final Cut” edition. It’s just astounding that a film that was made 35 years ago still looks as groundbreaking and slick as it it did back then — which just goes to show…

  • The Fifth Element

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    Excited as I am for Luc Besson’s upcoming Valerian film (I’m even currently re-reading the Valerian graphic novels), and also the new Blade Runner film coming out later this year (for which we just got a great new trailer), I decided to do a double bill last night of the two films that connect to…

  • Sunday Morning Cartoon Cavalcade Vol. 8

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    I thought this week’s Samurai Jack was a bit on the weak side, but I did enjoy the coming together of Jack and Aki — yes, it was bound to happen, but it was still satisfying to see them embrace at the end. Tangled was Tangled (I like the series for the animation more than the…

  • Hacksaw Ridge

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    I didn’t really know what to expect going into this, as I didn’t know this story, and what a surprising one — to the point where when it does happen (saving multiple soldiers on the battlefield) it comes off as Hollywood grandstanding, but learning it pretty much happened like that was eye-opening. As for the…

  • Jack Reacher: Never Go Back

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    I like me some military action movies, and I liked the first Jack Reacher movie fine. The follow-up is pretty good too. Nothing earth-shatteringly good, but definitely entertaining. I wouldn’t mind getting another one.

  • Demolition

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    This was great. Sure, Jake Gyllenhaal is one of my favorite actors, so I already tend to like stuff he’s in (like last year’s Nocturnal Animals), but this was also a discovery for me of director Jean-Marc Vallée, and now I really need to watch his previous films, Wild and Dallas Buyers Club. But yeah,…