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3 votes
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Jojo Rabbit | Official trailer
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Joker | Final trailer
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In praise of Hook, a flawed classic
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Five Nordic film festivals have joined forces to sign the 50/50 by 2020 gender equality pledge
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Movie Monday Free Talk
Have you watched any movies recently you want to discuss? Any movies that you'd like to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here! Spoilers are okay, just give fair warning...
Have you watched any movies recently you want to discuss? Any movies that you'd like to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here!
Spoilers are okay, just give fair warning so people who care about them can participate too.
10 votes -
The unlikely greatness of ‘The Shawshank Redemption,’ twenty-five years later
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The Fanatic Review: We Have Reached Peak Late-Stage Travolta
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Any-Mation - channel dedicated to education about animation used in movies (and TV)
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"El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie", written and directed by Vince Gilligan and starring Aaron Paul, will be released on Netflix on October 11
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Anthony Michael Hall joins horror sequel ‘Halloween Kills’
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What are your favorite movies of 2019 so far?
Since we're fast approaching the second half of the year, I think it's a good time to look back on the first half, to the movies that came out this year and to share our favorites. I'm giving my...
Since we're fast approaching the second half of the year, I think it's a good time to look back on the first half, to the movies that came out this year and to share our favorites. I'm giving my favorite 10 (though in no particular order) but if more or fewer stood out to you and you want to share all of them, feel free! Blockbusters, indies, comedies, dramas, whatever stands out to you from 2019 so far. Don't feel pressured to write anything but the title or a basic synopsis if you don't want to.
- Apollo 11: Okay, I know I said this list isn't in order, but this one is definitely #1. It's history in motion, and its images and editing will surely be seared into my mind as the way I think of the Apollo launch.
- An Elephant Sitting Still: Technically came out in 2018 in some regions, but has a 2019 release in my country, which is the order I'm organizing this list in. A beautiful and heartbreaking journey into universal pain and suffering and catharsis in the tiniest things. At nearly 4 hours and with an oppressively melancholy tone, I struggle to recommend it to everyone and anyone, but if the description interests you, definitely give it a look.
- The Farewell: Hilarious and sad, often in the same moment. My love of this may well have been colored by my experiences as an immigrant under very similar circumstances as its main character, but it's an interesting look at differing cultural philosophies of the worth of the individual on their own versus their relation to society.
- The Last Black Man in San Francisco: A layered critique of gentrification and the personal individual obsessions that keep us from truly seeing it and other issues in our world as they happen. It's filled to the brim with things to say, sometimes to a detriment, and some of the screentime spent just showing the sad beauty of San Francisco could've been used to further flesh out some of its ideas, but I still found it extremely compelling all the way through.
- John Wick: Chapter 3- Parabellum: I think the John Wick movies get a little more bloat on them every entry(much like their titles, actually), but the action only seems to get slicker. I still like the balance of the world, character work, and action in Chapter 2 the best, but while I think 3 drags itself down into its lore a bit too much, its setpieces are still top of the line. I find Keanu endlessly killing people left and right to be incredibly cathartic. Should probably talk to someone about that.
- Burial of Kojo: This doesn't say "Netflix original" on it, but it does seem to be distributed by them in all the countries I checked, so I don't know what's happening there. Regardless, there's a good chance you'll find this on Netflix in your country. I'm willing to admit this movie is heavily, deeply flawed. It overtelegraphs many of its plot points repeatedly, for one. But I also think it is filled with a gorgeous charm. It's light fantasy and grounded fairy tale feels half Tarsem and half Guillermo del Toro, and I was captivated from beginning to end.
- Booksmart: I find the new crop of female led high school movies (Booksmart, Edge of Seventeen, Eighth Grade) to be far more relatable and interesting than the dozens of high school movies of decades prior. It feels like the hands of the filmmakers is more on the pulse of the struggles of modern kids. Booksmart is very much a heightened comedy compared to the other examples I mentioned, but it is great at it. It's hilarious, even if there's one scene in particular that goes on forever. The comparisons to Superbad are mostly warranted, and I still lie awake at night, sad at the fact that I saw this opening night and the theater was mostly empty.
- Dear Ex: The Netflix revolution of every indie movie ending up on streaming services and leaving the theaters to the blockbusters isn't quite happening at the speed originally anticipated, but it definitely seems like more and more of my favorites of the year end up being a streaming original. Dear Ex is a Netflix film about different people grappling with the loss of one man, and it shows the power of the individual to connect the lives of the people they love, and of the many tools we employ to try to get over losses in our lives.
- High Flying Bird: Yet another Netflix movie. Steven Soderbergh is one of the people who can make a bearable heist movie in this day and age imo, and he lends that gift to this to make a movie where the heist isn't money or jewels, but the basic rights of human beings being trampled on by a system that creates middle men to suck up money, leaving the real workers with pennies. It's shot on an iPhone, and there are moments where that seems like a limitation, but honestly, a lot of it looks really impressive.
- Ash is Purest White: This is Jia Zhangke well within his comfort zone, looking at the strain put on human relationships by the passage of time and the everchanging effects of globalization and shifting national landscapes. The World(2004) (aka Shijie) is still my favorite of his, and it is definitely an idea he's explored before, but his ideas and commentary on it have never failed me to keep me enthralled all the same.
I have a list of all the 2019 movies I see that I consider "good" here (29 films at the time of writing this) if anyone wants to take a look at all of them.
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker | D23 special look
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Why everything is meta?
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Johnny Mnemonic, lost in adaptation
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Les Moonves, Kevin Tsujihara and the art of Hollywood self-sabotage
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‘Matrix 4’ officially a go with Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss and Lana Wachowski
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Bond 25 title revealed: No Time to Die
@007: Daniel Craig returns as James Bond, 007 in... NO TIME TO DIE. Out in the UK on 3 April 2020 and 8 April 2020 in the US. #Bond25 #NoTimeToDie https://t.co/qxYEnMhk2s
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Disney-Sony standoff ends Marvel Studios and Kevin Feige’s involvement in ‘Spider-Man’
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Movie Monday Free Talk
Thanks to @dubteedub for doing this up until now, let's bring em back :) Have you watched any movies recently you want to discuss? Any movies that you'd like to recommend or are hyped about? Feel...
Thanks to @dubteedub for doing this up until now, let's bring em back :)
Have you watched any movies recently you want to discuss? Any movies that you'd like to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here!
Spoilers are okay, just give fair warning so people who care about them can participate too.
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The Critics Company: These Nigerian teens are making sci-fi shorts with slick visual effects
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Bruce Lee was my friend, and Quentin Tarantino's movie disrespects him
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The subversive messages hidden in "The Wizard of Oz"
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Keanu Reeves is having a really great year — and personifying what celebrity means in 2019
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A Hidden Life | Official trailer
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Fox feels the pressure from Disney as film flops mount
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Certified mess: Even Rotten Tomatoes admits that movie-review aggregation is biased and broken. Is anyone ready to fix it?
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Universal scraps 'The Hunt' release following gun violence uproar
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Sundance faces existential questions in search for new leadership
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The Great Hack: A Netflix documentary on Facebook & Cambridge Analytica sheds light on one of the most complex scandals of our time
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Inside the rise and fall of MoviePass
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Nicolas Cage on his legacy, his philosophy of acting and his metaphorical — and literal — search for the Holy Grail
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The absurdities of 'franchise fatigue' and 'sequelitis' (or, what is happening to the box office?!)
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The Baz Luhrmann Elvis film will hit theaters Oct. 1, 2021, while 'Dune' has been pushed back one month to Dec. 18, 2020
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Tenet official motion picture poster
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‘Hobbs & Shaw’ doesn’t understand why ‘Fast & Furious’ movies are great
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Everyone needs a stuntman
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The Lighthouse | Official trailer
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Regal Officially Launches Subscription Service
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Regal unveils bold unlimited movie ticket subscription plan
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Motion smoothing is ruining cinema
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Jojo Rabbit | Official teaser
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A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood | Official trailer
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Here are the coolest science fiction weapons of all time, ranked
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness with Benedict Cumberbatch and Elizabeth Olsen. Scott Derrickson returns as director. In theaters May 7, 2021
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Cats | Official trailer
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Hollywood went to the moon first!
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Flags of Japan and Taiwan replaced in Top Gun remake
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Lashana Lynch to take over James Bond's iconic 007 code name
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Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers to fly flag in animated series
5 votes