Category: Reviews
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Week of Jan 22 – The Wait is Over!
Oscar 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
I 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?
In 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
Last 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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Week of Dec 25th – Closing out 2023
Final call for adding to my film count for the year. As I mentioned last week, I’m up in the Thumb of Michigan for the next two weeks. This means my options are limited for films. That is in no way me saying anything bad about the theaters there. I have spent so much time…
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Week of Dec 18 – Crashing the Party?
I’ll let you a bit behind the scenes here. I have been working on my Top 10/Bottom 10 post for next weekend for a couple weeks now. I was assuming I wouldn’t be able to see Poor Things or Zone of Interest before that post went live. Well, I checked the AMC app, and lo…
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Week of Dec 11th – Pure Imagination?
This week’s review recap includes the December 15th weekend. Between this weekend and next weekend, the studios dropped so many films into theaters. There are 8 films going wide, and 7 of those are next week. One film you won’t see here is The Zone of Interest, which frustrates me to no end. If you…
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Week of Dec 4th – The Century Mark
Before this year, my previous high for movies I watched in the year was 61 in 2022. When I got to #50 in June, I set my goal for the year at 100 movies for this year. This week, I hit that goal with three weeks to spare. Two movies on the docket, and they…
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