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I found Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales appallingly touching. I nominally resist the notion of a movie made “for the fans,” but then, if you’re not making a fifth Pirates film for the fans, I don’t know who you’d be…
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Destroy All Monsters: In Light of WONDER WOMAN, It’s Time To Reconsider 1984’s SUPERGIRL
Like the others in the very slim “before Wonder Woman” canon, Supergirl is largely considered to be an outright creative misfire, except, I dunno – it sorta rules? It’s cheesy and silly the way adventure movies for families were back…
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Destroy All Monsters: The Long Sad Tale of My Love for PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN
To you, it’s a movie, and (perhaps) a bad one. To me, it’s just one thing: blinding, blistering love.
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Destroy All Monsters: Hell Is The Human Race In ALIEN: COVENANT
Oh shit I loved it.
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Blu-ray Review: JEANNE DIELMAN, Criterion’s Three-Hour Slog To Pure Cinematic Perfection
Chantal Akerman’s feminist masterpiece observes an unknowable heroine in vivid detail.
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Destroy All Monsters: The Abysmal Fathers Of GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2
Arguably, GOTG2 isn’t paying anything off that Vol. 1 didn’t require of its own sequel. Star-Lord (Chris Pratt) has dealt with the death of his mother, several decades after the fact. The ersatz family (Gamora, Groot, Rocket and Drax) has…
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Destroy All Monsters: Did Marvel Seriously Just Pivot To The Right?
The fiasco, last fall, of making Captain America a literal nazi (reinforced last week via the “Secret Empire” storyline, where it does indeed turn out that Cap was a nazi all along) seems now like a canary in a particularly…
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Blu-ray Review: Criterion’s TAMPOPO Will Make You Hungry
Word of advice: don’t take your first trip to Japan and then come home and watch Tampopo. You might flip out.
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Destroy All Monsters: Thanks, GIRLS!
I’m not going to add much to the discussion of Girls, where other writers have ably carried the conversation, besides returning to a point I made a few years ago: I’m glad this show exists, has existed, did exist; and…
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Destroy All Monsters: Maybe The Trailers ARE Better
The nicest thing about a trailer is that it can’t hurt you. If you’re not loving the vibe, any anxieties can be immediately dismissed with a simple “meh, it’s just the trailer.” If everything about the trailer, though, seems doooooope…
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