Category: Reviews
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Week of April 22nd – A Tale of Two Films
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…
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Week of April 15th – An April Mixed Bag
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…
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Week of April 8th – War Week
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…
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Week of March 25th – The Quarter Pole
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…
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Week of March 18th – Who You Gonna Call?
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…
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Week of March 11th – Just Another Meh Week
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…
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Week of March 4th – Skadoosh?
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…
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Week of Feb 26th – The Spice has finally returned!
At 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
This 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?
This 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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