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2018 Drama Horror

The Little Stranger

               I was the only person in the theater for this movie. Since I started going to the movies every week in August 2014, this is only the third time that that’s happened (the other two such cases being Tusk and The Disappointments Room). I only first heard of this film last week when I […]

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2017 Drama

The Founder

               The Founder is the story of an empire built through ingenuity, cunning and old-fashioned douchebaggery. Michael Keaton stars as Ray Kroc, a struggling milkshake machine salesman that stumbles upon a small roadside burger joint called McDonald’s and envisions the future of the restaurant business. After convincing the McDonald brothers to allow him to franchise […]

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2017 Best of Comedy Drama

The Disaster Artist

               As a connoisseur of cinematic trainwrecks, I have really been looking forward to this film. For the uninitiated, The Disaster Artist is the true story of the making of one of the most notoriously awful movies ever made: The Room. I fucking love The Room. I have probably watched it more than a dozen […]

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2017 Drama

mother!

               mother! is a pretentious piece of shit. Even the title is pretentious. Oooohhhh the title is lowercase with an exclamation point, look how fucking artsy and special I am. Fuck you. I was duped into watching this thing by a great cast (Javier Bardem, Jennifer Lawrence, Ed Harris and Michelle Pfeiffer) and a marketing […]

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2017 Drama War

Darkest Hour

               It’s odd that Darkest Hour and Dunkirk were released in the same year because they are perfect companion pieces for each other. Essentially recounting the same period of time, both films portray the early stages of World War II and culminate in the evacuation of British forces at Dunkirk. But while Dunkirk (the film) […]

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2017 Action Drama War

Dunkirk

               Dunkirk is the sadly little-known story of the evacuation of Allied troops from northern France during World War 2. Quite honestly, I was only vaguely aware of this significant part of WW2. As with all heavy metal fans, I am very familiar with Churchill’s famous speech (“We shall go on to the end. We […]