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It Ain’t Over (2022)

Reviewed on Apr 9, 2024

A wonderful biography and love letter to a really good guy. Just sorry it couldn’t be completed before his passing. Quality interviews from a great selection of family and friends and players. I’m impressed at how knowledgeable and passionate his granddaughter was. Swisher is a clown. Touching send-offs during the…

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South Park: Joining the Panderverse (2023)

Reviewed on Mar 29, 2024

Amazing how they keep cranking these funny, amazingly topical episodes. It’s really smart at first, but the same jokes and social criticisms over and over start to get old. How did Kennedy become such a target?

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Facing Nolan (2022)

Reviewed on Mar 23, 2024

A nice love letter to Nolan, though it’s sweetly just as much about his wife Ruth. Seeing and hearing the love from his family makes the Hall of Fame speech at the end more touching. Great interviews. Shame Ventura couldn’t man up for this one. But interspersing the interviews and…

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Road House (2024)

Reviewed on Mar 22, 2024

A loose remake of the original, and there’s nothing good here. Unimpressive story, casting, acting, characters, dialogue. This is just popcorn violence, though the fights are well-shot. I like Gyllenhaal, and he’s got some impressive muscles, but with a goofy grin and awkward hesitation before delivering each line of dialogue,…

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Dune: Part Two (2024)

Reviewed on Mar 7, 2024

I know it’s an old story, coming from Herbert’s 1965 novel, but I can’t help but see the parallels to other films with same story. I’m thinking of the search for “the One” in “The Matrix” and the outsider falling in love with a local and passing all the tests…

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Poor Things (2023)

Reviewed on Jan 29, 2024

A philosophical and erotic dark comedy based in some sort of steampunk alternate reality, definitely something different. It’s got much of the same whimsy as Michel Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (especially the scene where Jim Carrey plays a baby version of himself), skies like impressionist paintings similar…

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Thirteen Lives (2022)

Reviewed on Jan 5, 2024

Good companion piece to The Rescue. This one’s basically the same, only with a bit of Hollywood polish. Beautifully shot. The cave scenes were surely hard to shoot and so claustrophobic that they’re hard to watch. Viggo and Colin, both playing low-key simpletons, do a nice job with the accents…

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Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment (1985)

Reviewed on Jan 2, 2024

Not good. The formula barely worked for the first film, now it’s totally done. Guttenberg is still painfully unfunny. In retrospect, it’s hard to believe Bobcat made a career of this schtick.

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