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Podcast Movie Blog Post: GHOSTBUSTERS 2016
I'm sorry to say it, but this new version isn't very good. All the elements were there, good casting, Paul Feig director of Bridesmaids & Spy, fun CGI, but the beats, timing, laughs, are all a no go on this much anticipated vehicle, written by Katie Dippold & Paul Feig. It has its moments, and of course you're happy for each cameo; still, most of the humor lands like a wet noodle and it dawdles...
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Gothic Romance: REBECCA & CRIMSON PEAK Comparison
I’ve yet to see writer/director Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth (2006), as much as I’ve heard it praised for it’s imaginative design and brilliant direction. I feared it might be too strange or trippy. Now having seen CRIMSON PEAK, I no longer worry about Pan’s Labyrinth being over the top and plan to watch it posthaste. (Post update 1/10/16 – did see it, found it engrossing, strange and wondrous). Please don’t go into Crimson Peak looking for a Blumhouse Productions type horror movie, cause you won’t find it, you’ll be disappointed and you’ll want to mock this film, which won’t be fair. Crimson Peak is being categorized as a…
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I Really Think They’re Dancing – ISLAND OF LEMURS: MADAGASCAR
Got a chance to screen Island of Lemurs: Madagascar, it has no relation to the hilarious computer animated Dreamworks animals we’ve come to love, but it’s smart marketing to make you wonder because of the name. Island of Lemurs: Madagascar is a documentary on the real creatures who have been here practically since the beginning of time, scientists believe they survived the meteors that killed the dinosaurs and drifted from Africa on a little chunk of island to the bigger island of Madagascar located in the western Indian Ocean. Once in Madagascar these Lemurs thrived and became many different species – over 100 different Lemur species, including some as large…
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