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Apr 6 , 2019

Dumb And Dumbo

The Disney Studio had early in this century a nifty idea that would make its shareholders giddy while also managing to completely frustrate audiences. It is a company with a long history of animated c...

Mar 30 , 2019

United States: the Movie

Once in a while, there comes a talented filmmaker that the mainstream becomes infatuated with. For a long time, it was Christopher Nolan, who debuted with the absolutely mystifying and brilliant Memen...

Mar 23 , 2019

How to Train Your Dragon, and Lose It

All good things come to an end, and so does all the mediocre stuff. It is not that the How to Train Your Dragon trilogy, an adaptation of a children's book series, fares badly compared to the epic fan...

Mar 16 , 2019

Captain All-powerful

Captain Marvel, Marvel's first major female superhero movie, and its answer to DC's Wonder Woman, has finally hit cinemas. The film is an ode to dreaming big, second chances, hope and female streng...

Mar 9 , 2019

Poor Replica of Good Sci-fi Movies

There was a time when the name Keanu Reeves was closely associated with one of the most memorable sci-fi movies ever made, The Matrix. There are some parallels between that 1999 film and Reeves' new v...

Mar 2 , 2019

Alita: the Death of Human Film Stars

If one looks closer at movies such as the Rise of the Planet of the Apes, or the new Alita: Battle Angel, what is perceptible is not just the state of the art visual effects but the future of the movi...

Feb 23 , 2019

The Best Pictures, Kind Of

Today will see the 91st Academy Awards, the biggest single event in the world that celebrates cinema, but mostly Hollywood movies. Of course Hollywood sometimes gives us good movies, which unfortun...

Feb 16 , 2019

The Lego Sellout

Sometimes, honesty is the best policy, even in business. Most expensive movies are not made to tell a story or expound philosophically about life. They are just trying to sell a product. Franchises su...

Feb 9 , 2019

Green Book: Road Movie beyond Formula

Green Book is no ordinary road trip movie. Indeed it has a scenario that we have seen replayed dozens of times. It is in the end a movie about two people who can neither be more different nor care for...

Feb 2 , 2019

With this Movie, It’s Forgiven

Films inspired by real-life events are all the buzz now in Hollywood. It will not be long before they become confused with complex character studies. It is yet another marketing scheme at driving audi...

Jan 26 , 2019

Glass and the Flimsy Plot Twist

The problem with attempting to be dramatic is that it is easy to be full of oneself, which is what M. Night Shyamalan has been for far too long. The filmmaker that gave us The Sixth Sense and Unbre...

Jan 19 , 2019

Eastwood: The Stallion that became the Mule

Clint Eastwood was the Brad Pitt of his time. He was the guy that all the girls wanted and the men wanted to be. He was the hardened, no-nonsense hero that kills the villain, saves the town and kis...

Jan 12 , 2019

Ralph Doesn’t Quite Break the Internet

If there is a genre that continues to inspire and hold audiences in awe, it is animation. It seems to be the only type of film where commercial appeal meets creative liberty. Sadly, there is a hitc...

Jan 5 , 2019

Bumblebee: the Transformer Movie that Got It

Bad but commercially successful movie franchises have never been in short supply, even as far back as the 1930s and 40s. But the Transformers series deserves a special place in our collective memory f...

Dec 29 , 2018

Aquaman: Not Deep Enough

I feel bad for the DC Cinematic Universe. It undoubtedly has some of the most well-known superhero characters. It can more than match Marvel's Spider Man and Iron Man with its Superman and Batman. ...

Dec 25 , 2018

The Spider-Verse Reaches for Spider-Man 2, Misses

Original characters are so rare these days that even the films that achieve critical acclaim only play around with motifs and presentation. Many have simply given up on the importance of originality....


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