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Film Review – The Last Black Man in San Francisco
The trailer for The Last Black Man in San Francisco is reason enough to seek out this film immediately. Seeing it in its entirety on a large screen in a dark theatre is breathtaking. That statement is not an exaggeration by any means.
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Film Review – Papi Chulo
Papi Chulo strikes me as an odd title for a film, but its meaning, “attractive man” or “ladies’ man” in Latin-American slang, makes sense in a couple of different ways by the end of it. Although the Irish money backing this film gave me pause…
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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 – Hail Satan?
Hail Satan? is an amusing documentary about The Satanic Temple that uses that title as a way to challenge conservative religious groups attempting to inject Christianity into public life. Upfront it should be noted The Satanic Temple does not actually believe in Satan as a…
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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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