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Not Jaws
Nancy is surfing alone on a secluded beach when she is attacked by a great white shark and stranded just a short distance from shore. Though she is only 200 yards from her survival, getting there proves the ultimate contest … Continue reading
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How Does an Editor Think?
You may have noticed that my posts have been a bit sparse lately. Well, that’s because my day job as an editor has been eating into my evenings, and so I just post on TBR whenever I have the time. … Continue reading
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Castor’s Underrated Gems: The Insider (1999)
Most people wouldn’t associate Michael Mann, the showrunner for the superficially excessive 80’s show Miami Vice, to be the most sobering and verite of filmmakers. However, in 1999, he released his most haunting film to date, The Insider, which centered … Continue reading
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Can our son lead a normal life?
This new Ben Affleck film The Accountant is about an obsessive-compulsive, perhaps autistic forensic accountant who also has something of a Jason Bourne bent in that he appears to be an expert killer. And y’know, it looks all right, but … Continue reading
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Are having a party or something?
I wasn’t all that invested in the first trailer for The Neon Demon, the latest film from director Nicolas Winding Refn, but I think this might be one of those cases where the best stuff in the movie is too … Continue reading
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The Man Behind The Mask!
It’s Friday the 13th, and that means I’m obligated to post something related to the Friday the 13th franchise! This Friday the 13th, it’s going to be the opening ten minutes of one of the best entries in the series … Continue reading
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You’re about to enter the Animus.
We’ve been here before, people. Hollywood just keeps trying to make movies based on video games into a lucrative thing, but honestly, there’s just no point. After literally decades of attempts, it seems pretty clear to me that removing a … Continue reading
Interesting Ball
I’m excited to see Swiss Army Man, featuring Daniel Radcliffe as the farting, boner-sporting corpse who can do anything, and in researching that film, I found Interesting Ball. This is a twelve-minute short from the directing duo known as The … Continue reading
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You killed Colleen.
Two teenage yoga enthusiasts team up with a legendary man-hunter to battle with an ancient evil presence that is threatening their major party plans. Goddamn it, Kevin Smith. You almost had me for a minute there. I thought you were … Continue reading
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Honest Deadpool
I’ll just come right out and say it, guys: I wasn’t a fan of Deadpool. I think this Honest Trailer basically summarizes all the negative points of my review pretty well. Seriously, what was the big deal about this movie? … Continue reading
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