Posts Tagged ‘Pirates Of The Caribbean’
Film Review – Jungle Cruise
There is an action scene in Disney’s Jungle Cruise (2021) set in a port town deep along the Amazon River. During the sequence, our heroes run and jump through wooden shacks and bustling marketplaces as bad guys chase them down. The scene then transitions into the river…
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Film Review – Dolittle (2020)
Dolittle (2020) is the kind of middle-of-the-road film that is frustrating to write about. On one hand, it’s not remarkable enough to jump over the moon and sing its praises. On the other, it’s just competent enough to provide some level of entertainment. It’s the…
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Film Review – The Lone Ranger
Here is one of those instances where I wish I could say a film turned out to be a pleasant surprise, but to do so would make me a liar. On the surface, Gore Verbinski’s The Lone Ranger has all the ingredients of a summer…
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CinemaCon Days 3&4 Recap
If screenings of clips from Star Trek Into Darkness and Fast & Furious 6 weren’t cool enough, we still had two days worth of studio presentations (Disney, Sony, 20th Century Fox, and Lionsgate) at CinemaCon 2013. Generally the presentations went two ways: either the presenters would briefly mention a…
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Film Review – Beautiful Creatures
Due to the trend of trailers sharing too much of their films’ plots, and thinking of the untapped tween market now that the Twilight franchise has wrapped, I decided to do an experiment with my review for Beautiful Creatures. I am writing half of my…
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MacGuffin Audio Podcast #136
Spencer is joined for the second episode of audio-only podcasting by MacGuffin team member Ed. Topics include: the success of Titanic 3D, Transformers the Ride, debating the best James Bond, looking forward to Anthony Hopkins in Hitchcock, and thinking about the most annoying TV characters.
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Episode 95 – End of the Line
Spencer and John look at series finales in honor of Harry Potter, consider the importance of the release date, and give DVD picks of the week.
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What We’re Watching – 5/26/2011
Looking over some of the films I’ve recently seen, I’ve noticed that my taste in movies ranges dramatically. From a 1950s Italian comedy to a 1980s tense thriller to a 2011 movie with pirates and mermaids, it seems that there really isn’t a place in…
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