Posts Tagged ‘Idris Elba’
Episode 1 – Captain Marvel and How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
Welcome to the first episode of the MacGuffin Podcast relaunch. The new hosts Cassidy and Keith spend this episode reviewing Captain Marvel, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, and at the end of the podcast they discuss the 2017 documentary Abducted in Plain…
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Film Review – Pacific Rim: Uprising
What to say of Pacific Rim: Uprising, the big, dumb sequel to Guillermo del Toro‘s big, dumb robots vs. monsters spectacle of 2013? (I know the original has its defenders and I find his output, in general, worth a watch but ultimately discarded Rim as a feast…
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Film Review – The Mountain Between Us
Romance? Adventure? Survival? A dog? Hany Abu-Assad’s new film The Mountain Between Us (2017) contains all of those things and more! But is it any good? Well it’s got some decent performances and beautiful scenery. It’s also kind of preposterous and silly. But wait! Before…
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Film Review – The Dark Tower
Let’s go ahead and generously call Nikolaj Arcel‘s long-gestating The Dark Tower adaptation “minor King.” The potential franchise starter based on Stephen King‘s sprawling series of fantasy novels is nothing if not slight, much to its detriment.
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Interview – Michael Stocker – Finding Dory
Spencer interviews supervising animator Michael Stocker from the animated adventure Finding Dory.
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Film Review – Zootopia
Disney’s Zootopia (2016) is about as middle of the road as you can get with an animated film. It doesn’t reach the stars, nor is it a unmitigated disaster. We get a nice story about chasing your dreams and being more than what society deemed…
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Interview – Kira Lehtomaki – Zootopia
Spencer interviews animation supervisor Kira Lehtomaki from the animated adventure Zootopia.
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Film Review – Beasts of No Nation
Cary Fukunaga’s Beasts of No Nation (2015) is a harrowing, surreal, and often times bleak portrayal of a reality many of us shy away from. There is no denying Fukunaga’s talent as both a screenwriter and director. Hot off his success of True Detective, Fukunaga…
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