Was this the most expensive film of all time? The special effects look decent, I guess. There are big name stars: Millie Bobby Brown, Chris Pratt, Woody Harrelson (as Mr. Peanut), Stanley Tucci, Holly Hunter and more. And wow…does the story just suck. This is just not my thing.
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Nickel Boys 2024
Based on Colson Whitehead’s award-winning novel, Nickel Boys puts us empathetically in the shoes of 2 young black men who are sentenced to a brutal reform school in 1960s Florida. Artistically crafted and filmed, it is extremely worthy of a best picture nomination.
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41 2012
George HW Bush gets softball questions tossed his way in a documentary that seemed commissioned by the Bushes personally. Even within that, we get to see the history that HW was involved with from his perspective and the film seems unintentionally revealing in places such as when HW characterized the Watergate break-in as no big deal, when he argued with the bishop of his church over the Iraq War- desert storm- when the bishop told him war and violence was…
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Brick 2005
**Watched at Filmspotting Fest (celebrating 20 years of the Filmspotting podcast) at the Music Box Theater in Chicago with my good friend Jake. Director Rian Johnson was interviewed after.
Joseph Gordon-Leavitt gets repeatedly beat up and yet…keeps going with this high school murder mystery. Probably the funniest film noir movie I have ever seen.
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