March 2018
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Movies of the Week #12 (2018)
I was away last week, but still managed to pull my quote. #pride #thelittlethingsinlife #hashtag Oh, pitches… Pitch Perfect 3 (2017): Wow, talk about a movie being painfully unfunny and depressingly one-note. As a fan of the previous two movies, I felt insulted by how little they tried here. There’s nothing special about PP3, which is… Read more
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Movies of the Week #11 (2018)
When the girls come into town Annihilation (2018): Oh dear, this one’s a pickle. Alex Garland’s second movie after Ex Machina (2014) is not a mainstream friendly affair, being a sci-fi flick with influences from some of the best genre movies ever made. There’s some Alien in it, there’s some 2001, there’s some The Descent and… Read more
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Movies of the Week #10 (2018)
Modern day Yogi Bear Paddington 2 (2018): There used to be a time when anything above a 90% Rottentomatoes rating meant something really special and a 100% rating was unheard of. Even in the worst of cases, you had an Armond White to make it elusive – well, you still do, he just hasn’t review this.… Read more
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Review: Infinite Football (2018)
I was fascinated by how well ‘Infinite Football’ captures the manner in which life shapes the ideas we hold and how, with the passing of time, we have the tendency to create our own narratives almost regardless of how and whether those ideas align or not. Read more
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Movies of the Week #9 (2018)
I went down on Oscars-lane this week, checking off my lost all but one of the best picture nominees (The Post). Who would I want to win? Well, the days of me caring are long gone – if by long we understand two years. All the best picture nominees are pretty good movies, even if… Read more
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