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2010s in Review: The Funniest Movies
When it comes to comedy, I can appreciate any style with any level of depth. While there may have been better-crafted comedies this decade, these were the 10 (well, 11) that made me laugh the most and the hardest. 21 … Continue reading
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Tagged 21 jump street, 22 jump street, cedar rapids, crazy stupid love, death of Stalin, easy a, favourite, four lions, game night, inherent vice, nice guys, popstar, spy, top five, what we do in the shadows, wolf of wall street
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2010s in Review: The Best Film Performances, Part 2
This is Part 2 of a two-part series. Read Part 1 here. DUOS Can You Ever Forgive Me? – Melissa McCarthy & Richard E. Grant Gay and lesbian friendships are so rarely portrayed on-screen, but McCarthy and Grant gave career-best … Continue reading
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Tagged can you ever forgive me, certified copy, cloud atlas, easy a, game night, master, moonlight, nice guys, silver linings playbook, widows
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2010s in Review: The Best Film Performances, Part 1
This was a nearly impossible task, picking between lead and supporting turns, comedic and dramatic. But here are my top 5 male and female performances of the decade. MEN Moonlight – Mahershala Ali The platonic ideal of a supporting performance, … Continue reading
2010s in Review: The Worst Movies
Being a semi-professional film critic meant seeing a lot of garbage, in addition to the many fine films I got to see. Some of these I paid good money for though, and more than the cost of the ticket, I’d … Continue reading
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Tagged alice in wonderland, assholes, battleship, breaking dawn, brooklyn's finest, canyons, collateral beauty, crave, death wish, exodus, greenberg, hannah has a ho-phase, host, huntsman, killers, mojave, peppermint, project x, runner runner, savages, serena, suicide squad, twilight, vampires suck, white girl, winter's war, wonder wheel
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2010s in Review: The Best Film Music
Like cinematography, it seemed like there was more great film music than ever this decade. That made picking these Top 5’s harder than usual. I already wrote at length about how great Hans Zimmer’s Interstellar score was, so I’m setting … Continue reading
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Tagged baby driver, call me by your name, drive, guardians of the galaxy, hateful eight, hearts beat loud, if beale street could talk, phantom thread, popstar, shutter island, sing street, skyfall, social network, star is born, upstream color
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Oscar Picks: 13 Dec 2019
We’ve only had the Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild announce their nominees so far, and they have a tendency to highlight showier things, which may mean some performances are getting a little more shine than they’ll actually get. But … Continue reading
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Tagged 1917, beautiful day in the neighborhood, bombshell, farewell, frozen, harriet, how to train your dragon, hustlers, i lost my body, irishman, jojo rabbit, joker, judy, just mercy, knives out, little women, marriage story, missing link, netflix, once upon a time in hollywood, pain and glory, parasite, rocketman, toy story 4, two popes, us
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Streaming Picks: December 2019
FILMS Top Picks Malcolm X – Netflix 12/1 The Last Black Man in San Francisco – Prime 12/5 Marriage Story – Netflix 12/6 Wild Rose – Hulu 12/16 Malcolm X is an increasingly rare great movie added to Netflix. Spike … Continue reading
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Tagged 6 underground, aeronauts, after the raid, alexa and katie, amazon, apache, app, astronomy club, better things, black jesus, bumblebee, burden of truth, carole and tuesday, chosen one, christmas prince, christmas with my father, clifford, cold case hammarskjold, como caido del cielo, confession killer, crash landing on you, day shall come, degenerates, depraved, disastrous life of saiki k, don't fuck with cats, especial de natal porta dos fundos, expanse, family reunion christmas, fast and furious, fast color, fruit basket, fuller house, gift, gintama, glow up, greenleaf, home for christmas, hot gimmick, hulu, inside edge, into the dark, jake whitehall, john mulaney, kevin hart, kid, kill team, killers anonymous, killing eve, la bazar de la charite, last black man in san francisco, last og, light of my life, lol, loro, los briceno, lost in space, magic for humans, magicians, malcolm x, marriage story, marvelous mrs maisel, michelle wolf, mighty magiswords, mix, neighbor, netflix, night hunter, nightflyers, ok ko let's be heroes, orville, outlander, preacher, prime, private practice, push, reprisal, rescue bots academy, ronny chieng, runaways, running with the devil, secret life of pets 2, sherman's showcase, sky is pink, sound of silence, soundtrack, spirit, spy racers, sweetheart, team kaylie, teasing master takagi-san, terrace house, this one's for the ladies, three days of christmas, tiffany haddish, transformers, triad princess, twice upon a time, two popes, ultraviolet, unikitty, v wars, virgin river, wedding year, what men want, wild rose, witcher, wonder park, yanxi palace, you, younger
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Streaming Picks: November 2019, Part 2
With two new streaming services launching this month, I figured I’d break this preview out into two parts. The first covered the usual services (Netflix, Hulu, Prime) and this post will cover Disney+ and AppleTV+. December will be back to … Continue reading
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Tagged 101 dalmatian street, adventures of the gummi bears, amphibia, avengers, avengers assemble, big city greens, big hero 6, bizaardvark, bluey, bonkers, boy meets world, brain games, captain marvel, chip n dale, clone wars, crash and bernstein, darkwing duck, dickinson, dolphin reef, ducktales, dumbo, elena of avalor, elephant queen, emperor's new school, encore, even stevens, evermoor chronicles, family sundays, fantasia, fantasia 2000, fantastic four, for all mankind, forky asks a question, gargoyles, ghostwriter, girl meets world, good luck charlie, goof troop, gravity falls, guardians of the galaxy, hala, handy manny, hannah montana, helpsters, hercules, hero project, high school musical, hulk and the agents of smash, imagineering story, incredible hulk, inhumans, iron man, jake and the never land pirates, jeff goldblum, jessie, jonas, kim possible, lab rats, lady and the tramp, legend of the three caballeros, lego star wars, lilo and stitch, lion guard, little einsteins, little mermaid, lizzie mcguire, malcolm in the middle, mandalorian, marvel, mickey and the roadster racers, mickey mouse, mickey mouse clubhouse, mighty ducks, milo murphy's law, morning show, muppet babies, muppets, my friends tigger and pooh, new adventures of winnie the pooh, noelle, oprah, oprah's book club, phineas and ferb, pixar, pixar in real life, pj masks, puppy dog pals, quack pack, raven's home, recess, replacements, see, servant, silver surfer, simpsons, smart guy, snoopy in space, so weird, sparkshorts, spider-man, spider-man and his amazing friends, spider-man unlimited, spider-woman, spiderman, star wars, star wars rebels, star wars resistance, suite life of zack and cody, suite life on deck, sydney to the max, talespin, tangled, tarzan and jane, that's so raven, timon and pumbaa, tron uprising, ultimate spider-man, vampirina, winnie the pooh, wizards of waverly place, wolverine and the x-men, world according to jeff goldblum, x-men, x-men evolution, xmen
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Too Early for This: Oscar Picks – 13 Oct 2019
BEST PICTURE 1917 The Farewell Ford v. Ferrari The Irishman Jojo Rabbit Just Mercy Marriage Story Once upon a Time in Hollywood Queen and Slim Falling off: The Goldfinch, The Laundromat, Little Women Rising star: The Two Popes The skinny: … Continue reading
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Tagged 1917, amazon, beautiful day in the neighborhood, farewell, ford v ferrari, harriet, hustlers, irishman, jojo rabbit, joker, judy, just mercy, little women, marriage story, netflix, once upon a time in hollywood, pain and glory, prime, queen and slim, report, two popes, us, waves
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