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Category: Debaser

  • Three Amigos

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    This movie has sorta turned into a comedy classic, but I think mostly because of the strength of the three stars, and the incredibly silly premise. I seem to remember that even back then I didn’t think it was that great a movie. Of course, there are a few funny moments here and there that…

  • Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

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    There’s a lot of love for this movie, that I could see from the comments when I shared that I was watching it. Me? I actually remember really hating this movie when it first came out — I was going in to watch a sci-fi film, and I couldn’t stand the fact that it’s basically…

  • Top Gun

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    It doesn’t get much more “1986” than Top Gun. The interesting thing to see here is that, even though it’s only Tony Scott’s second feature film, it already features the slick art direction pretty much all of his movies are known for. As far as this movies goes, sure, it’s pretty damn cheesy — especially…

  • S-Town

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    A week ago I binged the S-Town podcast, enjoying it immensely. At first I couldn’t understand why they released all 7 episodes right away, instead of weekly like with Serial. But seeing where it goes and ends up, I can see that they wanted to avoid people thinking they were getting into it for one…

  • Sunday Morning Cartoon Cavalcade Vol. 4

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    The best thing about this morning’s cartoon cavalcade was the happy return of Samurai Jack — it had been preempted last week because of the Rick & Morty special. An interesting episode, with the — well, sorta expected — turn of one of the daughters of Aku. I followed that up with three Mickey Mouse…

  • Our Little Sister

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    Earlier today I got to talking about the films of Hirokazu Koreeda with a friend at work, and it’s only after looking him up that I realized he had directed Maboroshi, which not only was his first feature film, but also one of the first proper Japanese films I remember watching at a theater —…

  • Sunday Morning Cartoon Cavalcade Vol. 3

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    This weekend’s cartoon cavalcade was off to a bad start when I realized there was no new Samurai Jack this week. So instead I started with the first proper episode of the new Tangled series. I still mostly like this for the art style they’re using, but it makes for a pretty fun series so…

  • Powerless

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    I was suddenly in the mood to check out Powerless, a sitcom set in the DC Comics universe that debuted earlier this year. I liked it so much, I ended up binging all 6 episodes that have aired so far. The cast is terrific — and I really quite like Vanessa Hudgens’s super genki character…