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“All Monsters Destroyed?” Well no, of course not. I wish the things that became the common themes in my weekly column at Screen Anarchy over the course of the past 4+ years could be called “resolved” — but really, they’ve just…
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Blu-ray Review: Criterion Cannot Illuminate the Multitudes Within Tarkovsky’s STALKER
This will be my third time seeing the film, and I am heartily glad to find it on the Criterion Collection this month after a few teases in that direction in the past — few films I’ve ever seen have…
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Destroy All Monsters: That’s Fine, There Never Should Have Been A HAN SOLO Movie Anyway
I finally said it.
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Review: PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES
Now bring me that horizon
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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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