Serie Noire is a bizarre French neo-noir of a man’s life flying off the rails when he connects with a teenaged prostitute.
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Serie Noire (1979)
Chamber of Secrets is both my least favorite book to reread and my least favorite movie to rewatch.
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We Can Be Heroes (2020)
We Can Be Heroes, the Robert Rodriguez return to family entertainment, is not quite good, but it is far more competent and watchable than I feared, especially given the car crash that was the Spy Kids reboot.
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Machete Kills (2013)
I did not watch Machete and think “that movie left a lot on the table.”
There were certainly worse ideas in 2011 than rebooting the Spy Kids franchise. It’s a film concept that’s easy to refresh: recruit a new batch of charming kid actors, update the gadgets for the new era, weave in some family values, and spin up a kooky spy-fi premise.
Calling The Adevntures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl “ugly” is a grave understatement.
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Machete (2010)
Machete isn’t strictly a Spy Kids spinoff.
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Zootopia (2016)
A movie I like slightly less each time I see it, and now I’m up to four times, I think.
I haven’t seen Grindhouse, but my understanding is that it works as more than the sum of its parts, crafting a fantasy B-movie universe to dive into.
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Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003)
Nathan Rabin’s legendary My Year of Flops feature on AV Club groups bad movies into three categories: