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  The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  A loony loony time to the MAX.

  With retro animation that is a mix of 1940s WB style and maybe a little dab of the more surrealist 90s tv animation, plenty of great gags and the bad ones go by quickly, some adult innuendo that will go over kids’ heads anyway, and even some sweetness to the Porky-Daffy lifetime fraternal bromance, oh and a couple of inspired-weird characterizations, this little gem deserves a cult audience of kids and animation nerds. And for Zaslov to feel like he was hit on the head by a mallet.

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  Lured 1947

  ★★★½ Watched 08 Mar 2025

  Sirk noir in London with Lucille Ball a dancer helping solve a serial killer stalking young women? Yes please. There’s some convoluted stuff in the middle but you forgive: With Boris Karloff as a loony former fashion designer, some funny moments, a fun mystery, all a damned delight.

Popular reviews

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  Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022

  ★★★★ Added

  I admired much more than enjoyed the Daniels’ previous feature Swiss Army Man, for its ballsy premise and the attempt, but this new one is a huge step up that is a mind blowing meta magical mystery tour through human lives, the family dysfunctional dynamic, our own possible parallel histories, all as it zips through various sliding doors in this whacked out multiverse. If there’s any flaw at all it’s that there’s almost too much, the effect can be dizzying…

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  Out of Sight 1998

  ★★★★ Watched 13 Jul 2024 1

  Hadn’t rewatched this since seeing it in theater in 1998, and damn does it hold up well. Sure there’s a bit of late 90s fashion and a somewhat muzaky score but otherwise pretty flawless. How crime romcoms should be. Top flight catch of stars at their peak (with peak chemistry, Lopez is just dazzling here) and those on their way up like Cheadle, my man Zahn, Keener, Guzman, Rhames, Viola Davis, all fantastic, plus brilliant cameos like Keaton and of…