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Bostonian916 (449 KP) rated X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019) in Movies

Jun 23, 2020  
X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019)
X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019)
2019 | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
7
5.5 (81 Ratings)
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Truth be told, I feel like this movie got a bad rap. I don't think there was anything particularly heinous at all. Graphics were better than average. Acting by much of the cast was on par with expectations. I feel like as the final entry in the foreseeable future for the X-Men franchise, some people might have had inflated expectations. If you give it a go, have an open mind. It isn't Endgame. It's not going to tie nicely with a bow all of the movies that preceded it. But it is enjoyable in its own rite.
  
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David McK (3632 KP) rated Dante's Peak (1997) in Movies

Jul 9, 2020  
Dante's Peak (1997)
Dante's Peak (1997)
1997 | Action
6
6.6 (8 Ratings)
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There was a period during the mid to late 1990s where disaster movies seemed to come in pairs.

In reverse release date order: Armageddon and Deep Impact. Or Volcano and Dante's Peak (this one), aka the one in which James Bond helps the future mother of the saviour of mankind (sorry, sorry: Pierce Brosnan and Linda Hamilton) rescue her kids from an exploding volcano after they go up said mountain for plot reasons.

A pretty standard by-the-numbers disaster movie, then, with the expected pyrotechnics, clunky dialogue and, yep, even the town meeting where the inhabitants refuse to listen..
  
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John Cusack recommended Dawn of the Dead (1978) in Movies (curated)

 
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
1978 | Horror
8.5 (30 Ratings)
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"I just think the premise of holding up in a mall… being that prescient about the kind of gated communities, and consumerism, and mixing that with zombies in 1978 is just beyond genius. If you look at, like, John Waters doing Female Trouble in 1974, saying things about crime and beauty and the rise of paparazzi, you know, this kind of crazy Kardashian, TMZ, beauty industry — I mean, as psychotic as that film is, it’s so ahead of the curve. It’s so amazingly looking into the future. So I think those kinds of themes I responded to. And Goblin did the original soundtrack."

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David Markey recommended Brazil (1985) in Movies (curated)

 
Brazil (1985)
Brazil (1985)
1985 | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
8.7 (9 Ratings)
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"Terry Gilliam grows up from his Python days and delivers a knockout, which (like the Orwell that clearly inspired it) was spot-on in predicting the future. Yes, it’s funny, but it’s mostly bleak, and it is Gilliam’s ultimate film. I love that this DVD set has the hack studio edit included (the “Love Conquers All” version that was sadly used for television, in which a happy ending is inserted, therefore changing the meaning of the film). Kind of reminds me of what the Bush administration has done to the media over the last eight years."

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William Finnegan recommended City of Bohane in Books (curated)

 
City of Bohane
City of Bohane
Kevin Barry | 2012 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry
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"The language sizzles and hisses in this 2011 Irish novel set in a steampunk future. We slip from the Trace, all tangled alleyways, to the Fancy, which is as it sounds, and even out to the wastes of the Big Nothin’, from which the Bohane river crashes down through the city. There’s a gang war, indelible characters, a martial music. Sweet Baba Jay, did anyone ever really speak this way? It’s wordplay at the level of Nabokov, but with a very different, Gaelic purpose. “Fucker Burke and Wolfie Stanners set their face against the hardwind as they climbed the bluffs.”"

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