Posted by moviegeek916 on January 7, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Les Misérables (2012) – So I’ve been getting more into musicals lately (especially as I am going to start auditioning for them) and hey, it just so happens a new one came out at the end of the year. (Worth noting: the other big-budget musical that came out this year, Rock of Ages, is one … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on December 30, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Django Unchained (2012) – There is a musician that performs under the name Girl Talk. What he does is creates new songs composed entirely of samples of other songs. Yet what he creates manages to be something new. Quentin Tarantino is one hundred percent the cinematic version of that and, as Entourage pointed out, “Tarantino … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on December 25, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Cloud Atlas (2012) – Okay, let’s get one thing out of the way: I will always support a movie like this whether I love it or hate it or anywhere in between. What do I mean by “a movie like this?” Well, sometimes there’s a film-maker who creates something that in addition to be very … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on August 16, 2012 · Leave a Comment
To Rome with Love (2012) – Okay so let me just start this out by putting Woody Allen’s career into context. He has released at least one movie every year since 1982 (sometimes two a year). Sometimes they good or okay, sometimes they are great. Very rarely are they awful (though let us not mince … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on August 1, 2012 · Leave a Comment
The Dark Knight Rises (2012) – I try to stick to the movie in these articles but I feel I should address something surrounding this movie. I go out to a bar every Thursday night and after getting home I decided to watch The Dark Knight, because I knew that the next day (or technically later … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on July 17, 2012 · 1 Comment
Moonrise Kingdom (2012) – There is a thing some directors have: singularity of vision. They’re the type of film-makers that 30 seconds into one of their films you immediately know who the director is. Wes Anderson is one such director. He’s made films about such diverse characters and topics as thieves, a prep school student, … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on July 3, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Ted (2012) – I had a teddy bear growing up. His name was Teddy (I’m the creative type). He was my best friend and truth be told, I still kept him around longer than most kids do (not like in junior high or anything like that but still). He sits on a shelf in my … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on June 20, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Brave (2012) – Walt Disney animation is built on fairy tales. Their early films included Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty. Pixar has mostly gone in a different direction, exploring hidden worlds populated by living toys, anthropomorphic automobiles, superheroes, or Charlie Chaplin-esque robots. Now Pixar has decided to dive into new … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on June 19, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Prometheus (2012) – Ridley Scott has not made a science fiction movie in 30 years, since his unparalleled masterpiece Blade Runner. Almost as good (and definitely more popular) is Scott’s second-best film Alien. Alien kicked off a franchise given us the great sequel Aliens, the sequel which I like (though few others seem to) Alien … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on May 16, 2012 · Leave a Comment
The Avengers (2012) – Many many decades ago, Timely Comics decided to take its two most popular comic characters, the Human Torch (the original 1930s robot one, not the Fantastic Four’s Johnny Storm) and Namor the Sub-Mariner, and have them fight each other. Timely (eventually renamed Marvel Comics) really ran with this idea and soon … Continue reading →
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Persistence of Vision 