Tag: science fiction
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The Creator (2023)
I just saw an early screening of The Creator and it was surprisingly good. When I saw the trailer I thought that it was going to be an extremely generic and sentimental American action film about a lantern-jawed man protecting his family at all costs. But it’s actually a somewhat subtle and thoughtful genre mashup…
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Jurassic Park (1993)
I watched Jurassic Park many times as a kid. It was the most thrilling and enthralling movie ever made when I was seven years old. As time’s gone by I’ve seen films that surpass it in my personal canon, but it remains an entertaining spectacle. It also remains the single unironically good film in the…
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
I just saw Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 science fiction masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey for its 55th anniversary at my local cinema and thoroughly enjoyed it. I’d seen it before but previously felt that it was a good but cold film, lacking in story apart from the section with HAL 9000 and without human interest. I…
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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)
I just saw Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, and it was an enjoyable if somewhat forgettable coda to the franchise. It’s been getting the usual sneering reviews from critics who must think it a sign of their cine-literacy to hold their noses when passing pulp trash, but it’s a watchable piece of hokum…
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Asteroid City (2023)
I just saw Asteroid City by Wes Anderson and it was great. It took a little while to win me over and it’s possibly too mannered and esoteric to be widely beloved, but it tells a very simple story with a simple message at its core and is one of the sweetest, sunniest comedies to…
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The Sorcerers (1967)
The second of three films directed by Michael Reeves, a talented British filmmaker whose career was sadly cut short by an overdose when he was just 25, The Sorcerers stars the legendary Boris Karloff (who in 1969 would die the same year as Reeves) as “medical hypnotist” Dr Marcus Monserrat. Assisted by his wife Estelle…
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
I just saw Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and it was really good. The art style and soundtrack are the best things about it, feeling integrated into the story at a level that’s rare for superhero films. For once one of these projects feels like an actual comic book film, which apart from Doctor Strange in…
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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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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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