Tag: children’s films
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Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999)
The Star Wars prequels have recently undergone a slight recovery in reputation given how disappointing the sequels turned out to be, and in my opinion, they deserve it. Perhaps I’m buying into a conspiracy theory here, though at this point I feel that the backlash was really just fanboys who watched the original films as…
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Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023)
Full disclosure time. These are the reasons why I went to see this film: Also, I have an affection for schlock, and Transformers as a concept is the schlockiest of that ignoble genre. (By this point in cinema, “schlock” is definitely a genre with its own context and history.) To explain my other reasons, although…
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The Super Mario Bros Movie (2023)
I just saw The Super Mario Bros Movie and now I’m hooked on the brothers to the end. Well, maybe not, but it was a pretty good movie. It’s kind of amazing that it’s taken Hollywood this long to do a Nintendo film right, but I guess even Marvel had many years of failed projects…
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