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An Appreciation – Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter…and Spring
A small monastery floats on a raft in the middle of a lake. In this monastery lives an elderly Buddhist monk, and the young boy he raises and trains. Their world is one of prayer, tradition, and harmony between all things. It’s here where they…
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Film Review – Toy Story 4
When Toy Story (1995) was first released, I was twelve years old. Now I’m in my thirties and the series is in its twenties. Time has been far kinder to the franchise. I make that correlation because it’s remarkable how the team at Disney/Pixar has…
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Film Review – Men in Black: International
Men in Black: International (2019) is the kind of big budget undertaking that’s completely manufactured for the purpose of garnering a financial gain. It plays things right down the middle, where it doesn’t take any risks, it unfolds in a completely safe and uninteresting way,…
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Film Review – Dark Phoenix
It’s crazy to think that the X-Men movie franchise, which helped kick start the superhero boom as we now know it, first appeared on screen nineteen years ago. Things have changed a lot since then. Seeing people that can shoot lasers out of their eyes…
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Film Review – Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) is a spectacular mess. This is an ugly, tensionless blockbuster where characters do stupid things while staring at computer generated, skyscraper-sized monsters battling it out in mundane fashion. It’s a never-ending assault on our visual, auditory, and common senses.…
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Film Review – Aladdin (2019)
Disney’s shameless practice of remaking their classic animated films into cynical live action cash grabs continues with Aladdin (2019). Perhaps I’m being a little too facetious with that last sentence. There’s nothing inherently wrong with remakes, some of the greatest pictures ever made were redone…
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Film Review – John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
One of the great accomplishments of the John Wick franchise is the world building. We have a time and place that looks similar to the one that we live in, but underneath the surface is a living, breathing world of assassins. It’s a place where…
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Film Review – Under the Silver Lake
Under the vast wasteland of Video On Demand exists Under the Silver Lake (2018), one of the most bizarre, mysterious, and mesmerizing films of recent years. It’s a puzzle contained within a riddle wrapped inside an enigma, and yet at no one point through its…
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