Review – Star Wars – Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
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Review – Star Wars – Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

I'm going to cut to the chase here a bit.  I enjoyed it.  I have been more excited for this movie than I am for Episode 8, especially after how patronizingly fanservicy Episode 7 ended up being.  There are some dodgy bits, especially during the middle act, but it's decent overall. What Rogue One does the best, is being a good movie set in the Star Wars Universe.  Ok, sure, that's what it is.  I get that.  What I mean though is, it's not part of the "Main Saga".  It's a side story, like other classics such as The Ewok…
Review – MCU – Doctor Strange (2016)
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Review – MCU – Doctor Strange (2016)

Marvel’s latest blockbuster is Doctor Strange, the story of a brilliant surgeon turned mystical world bending sorcerer. Unlike a lot of Marvel’s recent outings, I had almost no idea who Doctor strange was or exactly what he did before seeing this movie. My knowledge essentially amounted to something something magic, something something founded the Defenders, he seems to have a regular bad guy who is a flaming head demon guy. Also, why is he called Doctor Strange?

Turns out that wasn’t super off, he’s a Doctor because he is literally a Medical Doctor, and his big villain is the flaming skull guy, though the villain doesn’t really take that form in this outing. Short spoiler free verdict, it’s a crazy special effects fest to be sure, even better, the story is nice and straight forward, no complicated conspiracies or convoluted twists, it’s just what it is. Benedict Cumberbatch is much better as Strange than I expected coming into this, I’m not really a fan of his, though that seems to be opposite of the norm.

Basically, Marvel has another nice hit on their hands and a fine entry in the MCU.

Now on to the spoilers and detailed thoughts!

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Review – Movie – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2

I am not going to do a review of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II.  There isn’t any point, this si the 8th movie in a connected overall story and it’s the final chapter.  Even if it were total garbage, people who want to see it will see it.  Instead I will give some thoughts on the movie and the story and the series here in lieu of a true review.  If you want a review, here it is, this movie is pretty much everything you’re probably expecting.  If you’re read the book there will not be any…
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Review – Movie – Julie & Julia

2009 – Meryl Streep, Amy Adams So, there aren’t really too many movies about cooking.  There’s probably others but the only other one I can think of off the top of my head is Ratatouille.  If you haven’t figured out yet based on the cooking them of this film and the title containing the name Julia, the movie is about Julia Child. It’s also a movie about some woman named Julie Powell. I say also because this film is essentially two movies in one spliced together in 10 minute segments.  This is possibly the movie’s biggest drawback.  The plot of…
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Review – Movie – Coraline

It’s a little hard to describe this movie without mentioning Alice in Wonderland.  So I’ll just get it out of the way.  This is more or less Alice in Wonderland meets Nightmare Before Christmas.  Not surprising on the latter part since it’s done by the same guy who did Nightmare Before Christmas. With this comparison out of the way, the genre that best describes it would be “Children’s horror” I suppose.  It’s actually rather creepy in many parts, especially in the final third or so of the film.  It’s also the final third where things feel like they fall apart…