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Letterboxd Review - Jumanji: The Next Level (2019)

It's a sequel! That means bigger explosions, more exotic settings, a new powerful bad guy...et cetera. Jumanji: The Next Level has all of that, leading movie archeologists in the fut…

Letterboxd Reviews: The Quick and the Dead (1995)

File this one under "No one else was thinking about it." I imagine the Sam Raimi, Gore Verbinski, and Tim Burton of the mid-1990s era would have had a lot of fun making a kind of …

Letterboxd Review - Trolls: World Tour (2020)

If it's true that the circumstances behind the unorthodox new way films are being released are a bell not to be un-rung, are we really going to remember Trolls: World Tour as the …

Letterboxd Review - Prospect (2018)

As much bandwidth is chewed up pointing out that Star Wars is a space western, it's really not. Parts of it fit, but then again parts of Star Wars fit equally into Wizard of Oz , Yoj…

Letterboxd Review: Let it Snow (2019)

It's a Christmas romance movie. Based on a John Green book. I am not. The target audience. For this. But Netflix decided I just had to see every laugh line of the movie in one super…

Letterboxd Review: The Wolf Man (1941)

Released two days after the Pearl Harbor attack, The Wolf Man easily could have been rejected as an inappropriate diversion and ignored in favor of more optimistic, light options. It'…

Letterboxd Review: Dead of Night (1945)

Anthology horror films are, I think, the greatest format possible for the genre. You can pack a feature film with such a variety of tone and aesthetic that just can't be accomplished…

Letterboxd Review: The Terror (1963)

I have an unhealthy appreciation for Roger Corman's films. While it's true that the man makes more commercial product than transcendent art, there's an honesty to it. Corman …

Letterboxd Review: Them! (1954)

You cannot throw a rock without hitting someone's thesis about how creature-horror such as this film "slid into self-parody" at some point. Why? Because the monsters looked…

Letterboxd Review: Battle at Big Rock (2019)

Universal Studios is hoping to widen their robust revival of the Jurassic Park brand into something not quite a "cinematic universe" but definitely a "mythos." Batt…

Letterboxd Review: Triple Frontier (2019)

They all look like they are trying to decipher the context of the movie's title, don't they? I'm honestly quite torn, because while Triple Frontier is a forgettable, rank-…

Letterboxd Review: Bumblebee (2018)

Against all odds, I went and saw a Transformers movie in the theater for the first time in ten years. And it was hands-down the best Transformers film possible, under the circumstances. …

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