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Ep 461 – Emma Tammi

Talking Dumbo and more with the director of The Wind, Emma Tammi.

Ghost In The Shell Review

In Theaters, In Theaters, Movie Reviews, Movie ReviewsBy CJ Johnson March 30, 2017 Leave a comment

Rupert Sanders’ adaptation of the manga/anime/TV/web series franchise Ghost In the Shell is almost shockingly strange, disquieting, melancholic, creepy, and sad. For a big-studio, extremely expensive, bus-stop-and-billboard-advertised piece of mainstream entertainment, it feels astonishingly personal, authentic, and artsy; it doesn’t smell mainstream at all. Sanders has gotten away with sneaking personality into Hollywood product before, with 2012’s Snow White and…

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Colossal Review

In Theaters, In Theaters, Movie Reviews, Movie ReviewsBy CJ Johnson March 28, 2017 Leave a comment

Perhaps trying to be edgy, alternative, hip, cool – anything other than Oscar-winning for singing a brutally beautiful song in Les Miserables – Anne Hathaway has made a spectacularly misguided career decision in agreeing to star in Colossal, a rampaging misfire of a movie. What may have seemed like a deliriously different project on paper, emerges on screen as…

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T2: Trainspotting Review

In Theaters, In Theaters, Movie Reviews, Movie ReviewsBy CJ Johnson March 15, 2017 1 Comment

Talk about getting the band back together! T2: Trainspotting (the title, according to director Danny Boyle, evolved out of speculation about what the characters themselves would want the film to be called) is a thoroughly justifiable “late” sequel that honours the original impeccably. I got way more than I was expecting; indeed, half a day…

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Raw Review

In Theaters, In Theaters, Movie Reviews, Movie ReviewsBy CJ Johnson March 9, 2017 Leave a comment

Pound for pound, minute for minute, per capita, or however you want to say it, I’d suggest the French are making the best horror films in the world at the moment and have been (on and off) for at least a decade. The US and Australian output, while sometimes great, is marred by an enormous…

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Kong: Skull Island Review

In Theaters, In Theaters, Movie Reviews, Movie ReviewsBy CJ Johnson March 6, 2017 Leave a comment

Kong: Skull Island comes from a coalition of companies with a focus on large-scale, easy-to-digest big-screen entertainment designed to sell loads of cinema tickets in both China and The Rest Of The World. Legendary Entertainment, the primary company involved (who recently gave us The Great Wall), is a based in Burbank, is a subsidiary of Chinese mega-corp Wanda…

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