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Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain 2023
For someone that considers myself to be a pretty big fan of Saturday Night Live, I haven’t regularly watched the show in probably two years (I don’t know if this is paradoxical or inherent to being a fan of Saturday Night Live, a show where just about everyone agrees that the era of the show that was on when you were 10 or 12 is the best version of the show, and it’s all gone downhill since then). For what…
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Gone with the Wind 1939
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Gone With the Wind is a movie that probably shouldn't exist. I mean this in a lot of ways: Narratively, the film (at least to my modern eyes) struggles to appropriately balance it’s depiction of the Reconstruction-era South with the tragedy and romantic toils of its central characters, and on occasion awkwardly swings back and forth between the two. On a filmic level, it is a monstrously huge, wholly encompassing, technically and visually sumptuous epic, a movie so large that…
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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever 2022
This is a tough film to evaluate properly, both for the same Phase Four Marvel fatigue that has plagued every marvel release in some way since Avengers: Endgame, and because of the Chadwick Boseman-sized hole in the film. That Ryan Coogler and co. were able to make as emotionally narratively coherent as this one (mostly) is a miracle.
Though I have no way of knowing, it feels relatively obvious what parts of the film were likely in place before Chadwick…
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Thor: Love and Thunder 2022
My knee-jerk reaction is to say that this movie f*cking sucks. That, however, is somewhat unfair and diminishing to the hundreds of people that worked really hard on the film, as well as to the ten of people that actively read the crap that I write, so I'll expand.
I'll admit that Thor as a character and as a sub-franchise in the larger MCU has never really been toward the front of the pack for me. They weren't bad, per…
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