Posts Tagged ‘Margot Robbie’
Episode 146 – Barbie
For this episode of the podcast, we review Greta Gerwig‘s Barbie movie, and for the streaming homework, we review the 1994 Hong Kong romantic comedy, Chungking Express. Keith also gives us details about last weekend at San Diego Comic-Con. Download the episode here. Watch the…
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Film Review – Babylon
If La La Land (2016) was Damien Chazelle’s ode to the romantic dream that is Hollywood, then Babylon (2022) is his impression of it as a nightmare. This is Tinseltown at its worst – a land of decadence, drugs, sex, and death. The allure of fame is an addiction,…
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Film Review – Amsterdam
***Warning: The following contains minor spoilers*** David O. Russell seemingly disappeared from writing and directing feature films for seven years after the release of Joy (2015). He is back with Amsterdam (2022), another film that he has written and directed, and like Joy, it is…
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Episode 79 – The Suicide Squad & The Green Knight
For this podcast episode, we return with reviews for James Gunn‘s violent superhero comedy, The Suicide Squad. We also review A24‘s dark fairy-tale adaptation, The Green Knight. We catch up with the movie news, and for our streaming homework, we discuss David Lynch‘s 1999 family…
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Film Review – The Suicide Squad
The Suicide Squad (2021) is an exuberant, violent, and hilariously goofy superhero romp. It acts as an excellent course correction from the abysmal Suicide Squad (2016) and demonstrates – once again – that Warner Brothers and DC are willing to give their filmmakers more wiggle room with these…
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Episode 33 – Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey
On this week’s podcast, we review the latest DC Comics adaptation, Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey. We also discuss the historic significance of Parasite‘s best picture win at this year’s Academy Awards, and at the end of the podcast, for our streaming homework, we review…
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Film Review – Birds of Prey
Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn is a spin-off of 2016’s Suicide Squad. I obsessed over anything about Suicide Squad until I saw it. It was a disappointment, to put it mildly. One of the best characters in the film and one…
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Top 15 Films of 2019 – Allen’s Picks
2019 was such an excellent year in film that I seriously debated pushing this list out to 25, maybe even 30 entries. There was such an abundance of quality work that whittling it down to a small grouping is about the equivalent of a parent…
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