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Tag Archives: IMDb Top-250
Best Picture Oscar: La La Land [2016]
An aspiring actress meets an aspiring jazz musician and through the magic of song and dance they have a romance. La La Land puts its cards on the table right there in the opening sequence, which is a big song-and-dance … Continue reading
Best Picture Oscar: Arrival [2016]
Aliens arrive, and linguist Louise Banks is sent to find out how to communicate with them. Interwoven with that, from the first scene, is her remembering the tragic life of her daughter, who died young. This is breathtaking science fiction … Continue reading
Posted in Film
Tagged 2010s, Academy Awards, Denis Villeneuve, Eric Heisserer, IMDb Top-250, Narrative Structure, Science Fiction, Ted Chiang
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Best Picture Oscar: Manchester by the Sea [2016]
Manchester by the Sea follows Lee Chandler [Casey Affleck] for the few months after his older brother’s death, explaining the way he handles things via flashbacks to an earlier difficult time in his life. It’s a movie that’s light on … Continue reading
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Tagged 2010s, Academy Awards, Drama, IMDb Top-250, Kenneth Lonergan, Suffering [genre]
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Deadpool [2016]
Robbie Collins made the observation that studios were going to look at the “out of nowhere” success of Deadpool and engage in an intensive period of dissection and vivisection trying to understand how to make another one. There’s going to be a … Continue reading
Posted in Criticism, Film
Tagged 2010s, Comedy, Deadpool, Fabian Nicieza, IMDb Top-250, Narrative Structure, Paul Wernick, Rhett Reese, Rob Liefeld, Superheroes, Tim Miller
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens [2015]
I went to this film with my mind as clean as possible. I’d finally been hit with a trailer only a week or two before and unlike most trailers it showed just enough to be interesting and not enough to … Continue reading
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Tagged 2010s, George Lucas, IMDb Top-250, J.J. Abrams, Lawrence Kasdan, Michael Arndt, Star Wars
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Inside Out [2015]
I am writing this review in the lobby of the BFI almost two months after watching the film. I watched it travelling across the world to take some time to get some distance from my daily affairs in order to … Continue reading
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Tagged 2010s, Amy Poehler, Bill Hader, Bob Peterson, IMDb Top-250, Josh Cooley, Meg LaFauve, Michael Arndt, Pete Docter, Ronnie Del Carmen, Simon Rich
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Whiplash [2014]
I didn’t see this in the theatre because it’s premise looked one-dimensional – a brutal mentor figure tortures a nascent talent into fruition. Around the time it came out, it was being described as a kind of sporting movie, with … Continue reading
