Tag: comedy
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Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3 (2023)
I just saw Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 3 and it was pretty fantastic. The Guardians movies are the only Marvel franchise that I have any sort of fan relationship with, although I’m somewhat partial to Spider-Man and enjoyed the last Doctor Strange, perhaps largely because of Sam Raimi’s involvement. The Guardians films are more…
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Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971)
The giallo is a curious breed. Italian for “yellow”, the word refers to the colour used for paperback crime fiction that was sold in Italy and intended to be quick, exploitative, pulp entertainment. The term in its colloquial sense means murder mystery or horror thriller. Also known as Spaghetti Slashers (a la Spaghetti Westerns), the…
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Suzume (2022)
I just saw Suzume, an anime sub, and it might be my favourite film of the year. It’s funny, moving, suspenseful, visually splendid, and an almost perfect film experience. It was kind of shocking to see a fantasy film, set in the present day, with such genuine warmth and innocence about it. The fantasy films…
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Renfield (2023)
Vampires have had a long and storied history in fiction, but in recent years the Dracula mythos in particular has been used to explore the dynamics of relationships between these creatures of the night and those whose lives they touch. Since the Dracula story was always in part a metaphor for sexual predation, it’s perhaps…
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A Rainy Day in New York (2019)
Set mostly over 24 hours, A Rainy Day in New York is a romantic comedy starring Timothee Chalamet as the evocatively named Gatsby Welles, a gambler and gadabout who takes his girlfriend, student journalist Ashleigh (Elle Fanning), for a romantic time in the Big Apple. Both are, however, sidetracked by misadventures and temptations as rain…
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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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Scream VI (2023)
I just saw Scream VI and it was a lot of fun. I saw it on a double bill with Scream V (I refuse to call it Scream), which I’d already seen, although I think that I liked it a bit better this time. I liked it before as a silly satirical piece, but this…
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Cocaine Bear (2023)
I just saw Cocaine Bear and it was okay. It moved very slowly for far too much of its first act and never quite develops the pace that a film like this needs, but it has a couple of great set pieces and amusing performances, and is overall a relatively slick piece of work for…
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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)
Wherein my featured image is a comic book because none of the film posters will export. I just saw Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and it was surprisingly enjoyable. It’s getting a lot of nasty reviews and I’m not sure why. Maybe I’m out of the loop with what people expect from a comic book…
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Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2023)
I just saw Puss in Boots: The Last Wish and it was really good. It’s the best new film that I’ve seen in 2023, which indicates either how good it is or how bad my choices have been. January’s always a slow month for movies, of course, and now it’s February maybe good ones are…
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