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Reining In The Ropes Just A Bit... the Tom Cruise Way-- Mission: Impossible- Dead Reckoning Part One
Scale. Grandiose. Ostentatious. Unless you have been under a rock, you might have noticed the trend that has come in entertainment with...
Frederick Clancy
Oct 10, 20235 min read
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Pretty "Impossible" to Eclipse This One-- Mission: Impossible- Fallout
As time has progressed, tech in terms of filmmaking has seen a substantial leap in terms of ease of working, shorter span of...
Frederick Clancy
Jun 23, 20236 min read
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Rhythmic Swordplay tuned to Songsteel Perfection- - Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
In this day of bloated loads of content in every entertainment sector, our heart often yearns for something fresh and unique, be it good...
Muhaimeen
Jun 22, 20234 min read
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Heart And Color Firing On All Four Brushes-- Spider-Man: Across The Spider Verse
After more than a decade of superhero and comic book movies, 2018 saw the peak of the genre with Marvel Studios releasing Black Panther...
Frederick Clancy
Jun 21, 20233 min read
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The Invisible Simp (?)-- The Invisible Man (2020)
"What you can't see is scarier than what you can." Horror movies, in this day and age of oversaturated blockbusters, are often undermined...
Muhaimeen
Jul 30, 20203 min read
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An Alluring, Daringly Divisive Addition To The Sequel Trilogy-- The Last Jedi
Sequels. There are a lot of those in Hollywood. Sequels are probably one of the most overused tactics executed by studios to net in...
Frederick Clancy
Jul 29, 20207 min read
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Venom Review - Learning To Love An Ugly Child
Article author: Janathan Maheswaran It may be bad but I’ll be damned if it’s not a lot of fun As I was rewatching Venom for the first...
Janathan Maheswaran
Jul 28, 20203 min read
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Winner Of A Game In The PS4's Excellent Swan Song-- Ghost Of Tsushima
Here we are, after almost 7 years of the PS4's successful run, more or less at the end. With Sony's next big console, the PS5 almost upon...
Frederick Clancy
Jul 24, 20208 min read
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A Flawed But Whole Bookend- Return Of The Jedi
Return of The Jedi Review The finale to George Lucas’ Star Wars. (Title credit to Star Wars Sandcrawler) [Spoiler Alert: The following...
Frederick Clancy
Jul 22, 20207 min read
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A Radicalized Courtroom Drama With Sorkin-ian Expertise-- A Few Good Men
There are those movies that you suddenly find maybe in the on-sale $5 bins, or at a very low price on VOD, or maybe you were going...
Frederick Clancy
Jul 15, 20204 min read
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Adding Color To Emotions-- Moonrise Kingdom
It's a treat when a director spices up the language of filmmaking and splices together a movie that is a visual treat, an emotional...
Frederick Clancy
Jul 14, 20203 min read
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Scintillatingly Simple-- Birds Of Prey
Ever since the inception of the superhero cinematic universe craze with Marvel Studios' Iron Man in 2008, there have been a hunky number...
Frederick Clancy
Jul 12, 20203 min read
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The Definitive Action Hallmark-- Mad Max: Fury Road
There have been very few instances where a studio managed to rejuvenate a franchise after years of inactivity. One good example would be...
Frederick Clancy
Jul 11, 20203 min read
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Desensitizing Manipulation Through Narrative-- Gone Girl
In my opinion, one of the strongest credits a director can boast is having tried different genres in all of his filmography, but never...
Frederick Clancy
Jul 11, 20204 min read
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An Allegory Of Our Own World-- The Truman Show
Very seldom do we get films that are a symbolic representation of our own world, or maybe sometimes, a glimpse into the future. On...
Frederick Clancy
Jul 8, 20203 min read
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Challenging The Original "Star Wars"-- The Empire Strikes Back
It goes without saying that as a filmmaker, once you make what is literally a perfect origin story that ends with a satisfying third act...
Frederick Clancy
Jul 5, 20205 min read
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Our In/Ability To Change-- Netflix's "Dark"
I think it's no surprise that sci-fi thriller is a genre loved by a lot of people. A lot of the movies, TV shows we watch, games we play,...
Frederick Clancy
Jul 4, 20203 min read
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Changing Situational Comedy Forever (As We Know It)-- "The Office" Analytical Review
The thing rewatchability is mostly a gimmick for me. Because whenever I sit for another watch of an already watched movie/series, I feel...
Muhaimeen
Jul 3, 20203 min read
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Crafting The Ultimate Space Opera-- The Original "Star Wars"
Once in a blue moon, someone dares to make a movie that revitalizes a certain genre, stretches its emotional range, and thus, making its...
Frederick Clancy
Jul 2, 20204 min read
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Hypnotizing And Traumatizing The Audience-- Mulholland Drive
Weirdly enough, I have never said this before, but a part of me always appreciates the fact that among us live people like David Lynch,...
Frederick Clancy
Jul 2, 20203 min read
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