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As a kid during the 80s, I fucking loved the A-Team. It’s been long enough that I’ve seen the series that I can’t recall many specifics about it, but I can recall the general tone of it and why, both as a kid and now as an adult, I think it’s super cool. I can confidently say that Joe Carnahan’s film reboot of the series both captures the reckless enthusiasm of the original and manages to uphold the fun action film tradition we would expect from Hannibal, Face, B.A. and Murdock.

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Here’s the thing: My intense attachment to the Iron Man film franchise makes it difficult for me to be objective about it.

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As an aside, I am currently making back-dated posts as I catch up post-finals, but these may not show up on your RSS feeds if that is how you follow the site. So, just be aware.

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It’s never going to be a great movie, is always going to be damned ridiculous, but that’s the point.

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There can be no doubt that John Ford was an excellent filmmaker. He was incredibly gifted, is quite possibly the most influential director of all time, and The Searchers is one of his most recognized films. As such, I find it excessively difficult to review the film, not because it’s all been said before (Although it has), but because of the particular dichotomy of Ford’s talent and the pervasive racist attitudes of the time.

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Yet another classic that I took far too long to see, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid manages to take the roughneck Western genre and and spin it into something charming.

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One thing I love about Tim Burton’s films is that even if the story doesn’t particularly appeal to me, I know they’re going to be visually stunning in a singular way. His take on Alice in Wonderland is no exception, filled with lush visuals that do an exemplary job of interpreting Carroll’s vision without overpowering it. More’s the pity that the producers chose to stray from the original story and into a plot both convoluted and forgettable.

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What a strange and beautiful animated feature this was.

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By: Chris Columbus (director), Craig Titley (screenplay), Rick Riordan (novel) Starring: Logan Lerman, Brandon T. Jackson, Alexandra Daddario, Jake Abel, Sean Bean, Pierce Brosnan, Steve Coogan, Rosario Dawson, Melina Kanakaredes, Catherine Keener, Kevin McKidd, Joe Pantoliano, Uma Thurman A teenager discovers he’s the descendant of a Greek god and sets out on an adventure to [...]

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I feel like Wes Anderson dropped some acid, put on Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and this is what came out of it.

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A bit like Harry Potter meets A Series of Unfortunate Events meets True Blood, but without being nearly as well executed as any of those.

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