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Barbie 2023
It pains me to say it, but I enjoyed this movie so much more then I was expecting to, musical numbers, humour, there truly is something for the whole family yo enjoy.
Bright, garish and somewhat kitsch, those were my expectations, and sure it's a veritable cornucopia of glitter and rainbows, but what I wasn't expecting, was for the film to be so engaging, there's actually some real depth that I wasn't expecting. That opening introduction, that came as a…
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The Boy and the Heron 2023
Absolute magical, most likely last movie, made by Miyazaki Hayao. To give you an idea as to what you can expect from this movie, it has a similar feel of "Alice in Wonderland" but imbuded with the Ghibli magic you're familiar with. It includes elements of many of the other Ghibli movies "Princess Mononoke", "Pompoko", and "My neighbor Totoro" but adds something new that's never been made before by Hayao. To understand the full scope of it, you'd have to…
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Blonde 2022
As I've seen others review this simply based on being offended by the whole thing, thinking this is just a fictitious telling of the tragedies of Marilyn Monroe or thinking it's exploitative and disgusting and disturbing. This, I believe is part of the point painted in this film. It's not meant to paint a glamorous or nice telling of her story because her story was not a Disney fairytale. Whether these things happened to her or not on the other…
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Blade Runner 2049 2017
It's very rare when a modern sequel/reboot is equal to the original in terms of quality, but this movie is that rare one. It carries over the sweeping and hypnotizing cinematography, it continues the storyline in a natural way, it references the original, but doesn't rip it off, it introduces new concepts without ruining the continuity, it expands on the themes presented in the original in a very natural way, it doesn't drag nearly as much as said original and…
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