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Category: Reviews

  • Week of June 17th – Riding down the Road

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    Of course, a few days after I posted that $100 million post here, Inside Out 2 was the first to hit $100 million in its first weekend. It got $155 million to be exact. That is great for Disney, and more importantly, for Pixar. As I type this, it’s second weekend numbers are out, and…

  • Week of June 10th – Playing With Emotions

    Week of June 10th – Playing With Emotions

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    Sequels can be hard to pull off, especially for originals movies that are liked greatly. For every Shrek 2, there is a Bambi 2. Pixar is not immune to this by any means. Of all their movie series they have created, it seems Toy Story is the only one to continue onward, while adding to…

  • Week of June 3rd – Whatcha Gonna Do?

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    Thanks to Evil Does Not Exist expanding out to my area, for the first time since the week of March 18th I have 4 movies talk about this week. Two of the were awful. Which ones are they? On to the reviews! Netflix movies are hit or miss. Sometimes you get a great one (Hit…

  • Week of May 27th – Ending May Strangely

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    This week, a documentary on MAX about the failure of MoviePass debuted. It was a really interesting look into how such a flawed idea to start with managed to go down in a blaze of glory because people made things so much worse. The MoviePass basic issue made me think of something that I very…

  • Week of May 20th – Searching for the Green Place

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    Before I get to the reviews this week, a short story on path to actually watch Furiosa on Friday. My original theater with a 6:30 showing was out of power when I got there. So I cancelled my reservation on A-List and tried the Dolby Cinema at another AMC here. The system refused to say…

  • Week of May 13th – The Imagination Station

    Week of May 13th – The Imagination Station

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    I’m still working on a format for my planned trailer thought series, but there is one trailer I need to bring up now. This week we got a new Strangers movie, and there is something in that trailer that I think never should have been in it if my guess is correct. In this first…

  • Week of May 6th – Hail the Simian Overlords

    Week of May 6th – Hail the Simian Overlords

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    This year’s Cannes Film Festival begins Tuesday, and as always, there is a stacked lineup involved. It is one of the premier festivals after all. The highest prize awarded, the Palme d’Or, is widely thought to be one of film’s most prestigious awards. Due to this, the winner three of the last four years was…

  • Week of April 29th – Spring is over

    Week of April 29th – Spring is over

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    I know the title says April 29th, but May started Wednesday, and with it the Summer Movie Season. This summer has a little of everything. There are sequels (Inside Out 2, Bad Boys for Life, Twisters), prequels (Furiosa, Quiet Place: Day One), and Oscar threats (Sing Sing, Bikeriders). June brings us Chapter 1 of Horizon,…

  • Week of April 22nd – A Tale of Two Films

    Week of April 22nd – A Tale of Two Films

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    This week was a limited one for me. The NFL Draft is here in Detroit this week, and I attended that with my Dad and Brother. Then, I had a Tiger game Saturday. All those events this week meant that I had a window of 4 days to see movies, and I only got to…

  • Week of April 15th – An April Mixed Bag

    Week of April 15th – An April Mixed Bag

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    It came out this week that Quentin Tarantino’s 10th and final film, The Movie Critic, was canceled by QT. This was disappointing for me, as I was looking forward to it. I don’t think there is bad Tarantino film, and I have watched Pulp Fiction and Inglourious Basterds so many times. This is maybe the…