Tag: taika waititi
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First Time Watch: “Lightyear” (2022)
Disney/Pixar’s Lightyear is the first Pixar film to be on the big screen since the great but divisive Toy Story 4. Since then, we’ve had Luca, which wasn’t really my cup of tea. We had this year’s Turning Red, which was a good time until like the last 20 minutes. The brightest spot though was…
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Review: Thor: Love and Thunder
Remember Thor: Ragnarok? Who doesn’t? Following the original Thor (which I always dug more than most) and the second movie, which… happened, Taika Waititi found new life to breathe into the character and did so wonderfully with Thor: Ragnarok. The movie was sharp, funny, and it had tremendous energy. So five years later, Waititi now…
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Review: Free Guy
Shawn Levy’s Free Guy is a science fiction comedy that is more successful at the science fiction part than the comedy, when it should maybe be the other way around. Here is a great-looking film with some pretty good ideas that didn’t fully hold me in its grip, but didn’t bore me either. Truth of…
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Review: The Suicide Squad
James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad is much like Suicide Squad, except it isn’t absolutely awful. Actually, it’s pretty fun. Here is a film that is disgusting, violent, ridiculous, and over-the-top, and unabashedly so. Yet it’s also funny, ranging from funny to hilarious, audacious and when it wants to be, kind of sweet. Gunn, as you…
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