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  • 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…

  • Week of April 8th – War Week

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    Welp. I took a week off from reviewing films, but that doesn’t mean I didn’t see anything. There were three films during that week, and here is a very quick recap: Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (3 out of 5), Problemista (3.5/5), and Monkey Man (3.5/5). They were all just ok. Monkey Man was…

  • Week of March 25th – The Quarter Pole

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    Tomorrow will be April, and with it, the end of the first quarter of this year. On Tuesday, I will be posting the first version of my Top 10/ Bottom 10 for 2024. It will be the first of three of these post during the year. So far this year, there have only been 6…

  • Week of March 18th – Who You Gonna Call?

    Week of March 18th – Who You Gonna Call?

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    With my film tournament officially started, I guess I’ll share why the years for the tourney are what they are. At first, I was going for 20 years ago. That meant 1993 was part of the tournament. There are two problems with that. Jurassic Park is my favorite movie of all time, and I think…

  • Week of March 11th – Just Another Meh Week

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    This year’s SXSW occurred this past week, and there were some films in that festival that I am looking forward to. On the Oscar front, A Real Pain, Civil War, and Sing Sing were all part of the festival. Monkey Man and The Fall Guy both had their world premieres there this past week, and…

  • Week of March 4th – Skadoosh?

    Week of March 4th – Skadoosh?

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    After the Oppenheimer party that should happen tonight, we will enter the 2025 Oscar season. I know it’s still stupid early to really start predicting things, but it’s never a bad time to have things on your radar as the year moves along. Dune: Part 2 is absolutely going to be a major player as…