Category: Reviews
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Week of March 4th – Skadoosh?
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in ReviewsAfter 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…
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Week of Feb 26th – The Spice has finally returned!
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in ReviewsAt the beginning of the year, I shared the 10 films I was most anticipating. Number 3 on that list was Dune: Part Two. A little further down that list at number eight was Mickey 17. That film is Bong Joon-ho’s follow up to Parasite, which won Best Picture four years ago. It was originally…
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Week of Feb 19 – The International run continues
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in ReviewsThis year has been disappointing so far. Not a single American film this far has cracked the 4 out of 5 level. While the US releases haven’t delivered, the International ones certainly have. They are the top four on my list and all at 4 or 4.5 out of 5. Spoiler for this post, but…
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Week of Feb 12 – Every Little Thing Will Be Alright?
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in ReviewsThis week, I hit 20 films for the year. This isn’t that big of a deal as I should have above 100 by the end of the year, but it does mean I can fill out a Top 10/Bottom 10 now. I won’t post those until the end of a quarter, so the end of…
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Week of Feb 5th – Creating a Monster
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in ReviewsOn Monday of this past week, the Maple Theater in Bloomfield Township closed. It was one of the last, if not the last, places to be able to see independent and art house films that AMC and Emagine don’t feel like showing (until they have to during Oscar season…). My favorite memory of going to…
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Week of Jan 29th – Spies at Disney World
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in ReviewsWhile I write this I’m sitting at Fort Wilderness at Walt Disney World. It’s my now yearly weekend getaway from the Michigan winter. This also isn’t the first time I have seen a movie at Disney Springs during a vacation. It’s happened at least two other times. The first time was back in 2004 when…
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Week of Jan 22 – The Wait is Over!
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in ReviewsOscar nominations are out, so I now know what is up for Best Picture. Since I moved to Detroit in 2013, I have always had the goal to watch all the nominees before that year’s ceremony. It has gotten easier to pull it off in recent years as my number of films watch has grown.…
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Week of Jan 15 – Dumpuary Rolls On
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in ReviewsI will continue to wonder why January has to be the month where we seem to always get pointless and awful movies. This year it is worse after we had about 12 movies released in December as everyone wanted the Holiday release area. Why can’t studios just move some of those to January? People only…
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Week of Jan 8th – Making Fetch Happen Again?
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in ReviewsIn this week’s post, two of the movies share a trend that has grown in the last few years: adapting Broadway musicals into movie musicals. We got a couple straight pro shots of musicals (Hamilton and Come From Away), but the majority are bigger adaptations of the stage version. Sometimes it works (Into the Heights)…
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Week of Jan 1st – Here We Go Again
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in ReviewsLast week up in the Thumb this week before I head back to Detroit, and my options for movies this week is very limited. The movies playing here are Migration at one theater, Migration and Aquaman at another, and Wonka, Migration, and Aquaman at the third one. Got to love variety here. Still, streaming is…
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