Watching this movie on Christmas morning has been a staple in my family for decades. My father did it as a kid. And his father before him. I remember coming downstairs as a child and running to try to unwrap my present before I was stopped. "Not till we finish The Imitation Game." And so the family would gather around the TV and we would soak in the magnitude and spectical of the whole event. We also say lines in…
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Grease 1978
Like Diogenes the Cynic I reprise my role as Diogenes the Critic by asking “has anyone seen an honest movie? Where can I find an honest movie?” standing before the court of kings and jesters I reveal my dust weary vhs of Grease from my burlap sack. “Behold” I cry “a man named Jon Travolta. A man who defied time by being visibly 40 and still in high school. A man who broke all that is sacred and holy by…
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The Last Airbender 2010
When we talk about movies or rather the art of filmmaking, it becomes easy to generalize media into two camps, that of the good movie and the bad one. To say I don’t like Avatar the Last Airbender would be a massive understatement. The movie is flawed. But so are we. The human is not truly good nor is it truly evil. We see the cracks in our humanity in Avatar the Last Airbender. We see ourselves in the damaged…
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Thanksgiving 2023
Thanksgiving is an institution in this town. I believe that thanksgiving is a time to enjoy friends and family. And so I thought it would be fun watch this movie with my elderly great grandmother on thanksgiving. She did not survive. But I enjoyed it overall but I can not give it a full five stars since it’s score and cinematography was solidly 3 stars.
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