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Film Review – Pokémon Detective Pikachu
I’ll admit to you now, dear reader, that the world of Pokémon is a world that means very little to me. Oh sure, I was well aware of the games, tv shows, and animated movies growing up, but I never attached myself to the property…
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DIFF Film Review – Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile
Joe Berlinger is widely known as an acclaimed film documentary producer and director with credits like The Paradise Lost trilogy, Iconoclasts, and Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger. Berlinger recently focused his work on the serial killer Ted Bundy. He produced and…
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Film Review – Long Shot
On the surface, Long Shot (2019) has similarities to a previous Seth Rogen starring vehicle, Knocked Up (2007). In both, Rogen’s character falls in love with a self-made woman who finds something endearing under his schlubby exterior. Of course, both are riddled with the same…
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Film Review – The Intruder
Dennis Quaid is having a ball playing the villain of The Intruder (2019). It’s been said that the antagonist is sometimes more interesting than the hero, and because of that actors tend to play their characters far looser and with more creativity. A lot of…
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Film Review – Avengers: Endgame
Avengers: Endgame (2019) is the most “superhero movie” superhero movie ever made. It’s a sprawling culmination of a decade’s worth of characters and storyline development. Throughout its three-hour runtime, it exhibits both the positive and negative aspects of the genre on a massive scale. Credit…
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Film Review – The Curse of La Llorona
The Curse of La Llorona (2019) is based on the Spanish/Mexican folktale where a woman – acting out of pain and anger after her husband leaves her – drowns her children in a river. Soon after, she is found dead herself. Legend has it that…
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Film Review – Little
Ebenezer Scrooge may have started out as a money hungry monster, but Jordan Sanders (Regina Hall) – the protagonist of Little (2019) – is a whole other beast. She may be the wealthy CEO of a startup company, but she runs it with the iron…
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Film Review – The Brink
The Brink lacks clear purpose in its observations of Steven Bannon, Donald Trump‘s onetime adviser and now a nationalist spokesman. Bannon is a controversial figure, to say the least, with those who admire him thinking he is aiding the United States and promoting nationalist ideas…
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