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Kubo and the Two Strings
In art form is function. What art is can be as important as how art is. Laika are the only game in town for feature length stop-motion animation. That’s why it so hard to get a read on them. There’s no necessity for perfection when you’re the only one selling. The fact has allowed them…
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Julieta
Pedro Almodóvar’s latest is a sweeping story of the struggles presented by both commitment and infidelity. Presented as the story of a mother’s life as narrated in the form of a letter sent to her estranged daughter, we travel through the Spain of the eighties, nineties and millennium, observing all the ways that humanity finds…
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A Review of Woody Allen’s Latest Film; Cafe Society
Seriously..? Come on. It’s a Woody Allen film. Three Stars.
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The Hangover Alumni: Bad Moms and War Dogs
Being too late to produce a timely piece of writing on either film and too lazy to do so even though it would be worthwhile, I’m just going to throw a bunch of ideas down now. At leave I have the flimsy justification that both directorial teams Jon Lucas & Scott Moore (Bad Moms)…
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Sausage Party
Okay, let’s start with the basics. Barring any further revelations it’s pretty clear that the animators on this film were mistreated. The entire state of the American third party animation industry is pretty much fucked. But that doesn’t excuse the shady shit that has happened in the films production. When I recommend this it is…
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Some Cold Takes: Pete’s Dragon; Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates; Swallows and Amazons
Pete’s Dragon You haven’t seen Pete’s Dragon. That’s fine, it’s not a personal failing, nobody has seen it. The film wasn’t released so much as lubed up to slide gracefully from cinema to home video to the annals of time, while registering as little in the public consciousness as possible. Which is a shame, the…
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David Brent: Life on the Road
David Brent: Life on the Road is perhaps the most appropriate film that could be made about the character. It is not the best. But it, in its own way, encapsulates all the messiness and contradictions of the character and his creator. It tries to champion the common people yet propagates some real harmful stereotypes…
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