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Sing 2016
I can’t believe this was the first time I saw this. It’s great! Also-how the hell did this movie get made? I mostly work in music documentaries, and the very little I’ve learned about music licensing fees makes my jaw drop at Sing. How did they pull off that soundtrack? Furthermore-how did they assemble that cast? It’s quite an accomplishment, and I guess cool to get all that budget to some musicians in a society that treats them like garbage. …
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Encanto 2021
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I only recently found out that there are people who can’t stand Lin-Manuel Miranda’s work?! Count me out on that personally, but if you don’t like it, Encanto will drive you crazy. It’s the most like musical theater of any Disney movie in a while. Sure - The animation propels the visuals further into an abstract space than the stage would allow, but sometimes the characters are strait up lit with stage lighting and doing theatrical choreography. Furthermore-the plot unfolding…
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Moana 2016
A colleague of mine is always talking about the concept of a “perfect movie” and Moana is the example we most often can agree on. I’m not sure there is such a thing as a perfect movie, but Moana is as close as you get.
As a writer, I can’t believe how like…every scene is framed around the theme of knowing who you are. Her Dad doesn’t say, “it’s time you did your job as the village chief.” He says…
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After Hours 1985
A man is seduced out of his all beige life by an intriguing stranger, and plunged into an inescapable nightmare version of SoHo that’s somehow both ultra dark and a zany comedy.
I remember the first time I watched this movie. I found it playing on a good old fashioned linear TV channel, sometime back in the 90s. This was back when you could just stumble onto a movie with no commercials, and so no way of finding out what…
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