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I’m reading La Belle Sauvage this week and I’m happy as a clam, and the timing feels right to tear (yet another) strip off The Golden Compass, which was an abjectly terrible adaptation of (my favourite) book.
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Blu-ray Review: Musical Man-Eating Mermaids in Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s THE LURE
Polish horror-musical repatriates The Little Mermaid by way of feminist carnage.
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Blu-ray Review: Kelly Reichardt’s CERTAIN WOMEN Joins the Criterion Collection
This rewarding trio of stories bring out the best in four great actresses.
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Blu-ray Review: Mike Leigh’s MEANTIME, A Well-Timed Criterion Release
The 1984 TV-movie is better than half the prestige TV in your Netflix queue.
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Destroy All Monsters: All Monsters Destroyed
“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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