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The Letters 2014
Watched for my boys Rutger Hauer and Max Von Sydow (RIP to both of them).
This movie makes the cardinal sin of telling, but not showing. We have a wraparound of Von Sydow giving Hauer the Cliff Notes on Mother Teresa's life (they both sit in one room the whole movie and clearly shot all their work in a day). He tells Hauer's character that she experienced a divine calling on a train through Darjeeling, then we cut to her…
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Mickey 17 2025
Mark Ruffalo's "performance" was certainly a choice...
You think the story is going to ask interesting questions about identity, what constitutes individuality/self and the devaluing of human life, and then proceeds to focus more and more on Ruffalo's Trump stand-in and the not-Ohmus.
Robert Pattinson is the only one to come out of this unscathed.
Bong Joon-ho desperately needs to stop using adorable CG animals to emotionally manipulate the audience in blatant ways, it's weird this is the second time he's done this.
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Spirited Away: Live on Stage 2022
Spirited Away: Live on Stage was tremendous. From the sets, puppets, costumes, staging, transitions, performances, all top-notch. Just seeing the unique solutions to adapting a piece of animated fantasy to the stage in practical ways was a delight.
Highlight was Mari Natsuki as Yubaba, her original voice actor in the animated film, performing the role (which is apparently only in the recorded production with Kanna Hashimoto as Chihiro, Romi Park is Mone Kamishiraishi's Yubaba).
The biggest laugh was how they adapted Yubaba's "Kashira" (the three hopping green-heads) to the stage. I'll leave the surprise and delight of experiencing their first appearance in the production to you.
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Godzilla Minus One 2023
So...Yeah...I'm thinking this may be the greatest Godzilla film ever made, and that's INCLUDING the 1954 original.
This film not only honors what Ishiro Honda, Eiji Tsuburaya and Tomoyuki Tanaka created almost 70 years ago, but takes the human element and emotional groundwork that was present in the original film, but slowly lost as the 1954 original developed into a franchise, and brings that human element back to the forefront in a very powerful way.
It's clear that director, writer…
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