The Minions are excessively zany and the tone is quite wobbly, but disaster averted because Gru and his relationship with the girls are so charming.
Author: Dan Stalcup
Icy, sexy romantic drama as two men and two women constantly cheat and realign and scar each other. Not an uplifting watch, but it’s gloriously savage and bitter, with all the action in the dialogue (and the actual action offscreen).
It’s Chrsitmas!
Grant’s favorite movie. Definitely need to rewatch.
A completely unnecessary fourth Toy Story that’s still miraculously good. Despite a “creation story,” the existential, almost religious tones of Toy Story 2 and Toy Story 3 are excised in favor of a clearer theme of parenting. Some parts grate and drag, but the animation is stunningly beautiful, and it has some surprising narrative punch.
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The Great Train Robbery (1903)
As usual, the Americans got there after the Europeans, but did it with more scope and spectacle.
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A Trip to the Moon (1902)
As I dive deeper and deeper into film history with The Goods and my expanded set of movie reviews, I’d like to more systematically expand my understanding and coverage of film history.
UNDERRATED!
Once you calibrate your expectations for a simplistic story with very broad strokes, it goes down so easy… Tremendous scenery and natural effects CGI contrasting with cartoony characters but good emotional beats.
Way better than I expected. Storybook-style hand animation, whimsical story, characters we love. Only like 20% of the characters feel anachronistic/annoyingly voiced. We need more kids movies like this.
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Network (1976)
Amazing screenplay. So clever and nasty and evocative, and the satire is more relevant than ever. The “I’m mad as hell” scene is truly an all-timer moment.
Faye Dunaway stole my heart.