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Tag Archives: 2015

Demolition

April 14, 2016by Hunter 2 Comments

Demolition is not a great film, it might not even be that good. It has this very strange tone, somewhere between dark comedy and drama, that didn’t really work for […]

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The 88th Academy Awards… The Winners

March 8, 2016by Hunter Leave a comment

So here we go. I did watch the second half of the Oscars after filming last Sunday, but what with being sick and school work and everything else, I haven’t […]

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The 88th Academy Awards…. The Predictions

February 27, 2016by Hunter 3 Comments

It’s that time of year again, time to predict which films will take home some Oscars. This year is probably the most wide open in recent memory, which should make […]

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Top 10 of 2015

February 1, 2016by Hunter 4 Comments

I don’t think I have ever been less excited to make a top 10 of the year list. It’s not that 2015 was a bad year, because it wasn’t, but […]

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The Revenant

January 24, 2016by Hunter 2 Comments

If the other wintery western of this year, The Hateful Eight, suffocated any kind of meaning under the gleeful meanness of its director, The Revenant does a similar thing but […]

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Carol

January 15, 2016by Hunter Leave a comment

The genius of Todd Haynes’ Carol is not the perfectly calculated distance it holds from its characters, but instead the rare moments when it lets the facade slip. Everything from […]

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The 88th Academy Awards… The Nominations

January 14, 2016by Hunter 2 Comments

This morning, much speculation was brought to an end as the nominees for the 88th Academy Awards were finally announced. As usual, I have all of them listed here, along […]

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The Hateful Eight

January 10, 2016by Hunter 12 Comments

To say I’m disappointed in Tarantino’s latest is an understatement. The Hateful Eight is such a departure from what Tarantino has done before in terms of quality, but a little […]

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Joy

January 4, 2016by Hunter 6 Comments

If American Hustle was supposed to be David O Russell’s Goodfellas (which it wasn’t), then Joy can rightly be called David O Russell’s Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore. A sort […]

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Creed

January 2, 2016by Hunter Leave a comment

It’s hard to judge a film like Creed that fits into an established franchise that has been beloved for such a long time. Like with James Bond and Star Wars […]

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