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You like recipes? Here’s one: Mix well and serve in a tall glass. When asked to describe the flavor, nobody’s gonna be able to get past ‘flavourful’ because, well, it tastes like so many things so what do you narrow it down to? A “revolutionary” in hiding calls a secret hotline to get details of
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I recently watched F1 on an Imax screen. The film isn’t trying to break new ground emotionally or dramatically (it’s as though, after revisiting top gun from an older man’s perspective, Kozinski wanted to do the same thing to Days of Thunder – incidentally both were by Tony Scott). But from a filmmaking standpoint, it’s
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Listen, before you read any further, this post is gonna contain spoilers the size of a Wikipedia article on Dr. Julius Robert Oppenheimer. So beware. There’s a moment in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer when the team on the Manhattan Project is setting up for the Trinity test (the first nuclear test explosion) and the titular character
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Let me begin by talking about the weakest couple of scenes in The Post, the ones that made me so angry I could spit. At the beginning of the final act of the film, Katharine Graham, the owner of The Washington Post, makes the decision to side with her editor Ben Bradlee to publish an
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War for the Planet of the Apes isn’t a bad film, but I left the theater feeling a tad underwhelmed. The trouble with the franchise is, the buried themes it seems to want to explore have been done already in other sci-fi blockbuster franchises, most notably the X-Men. Which makes it a problem because, once you
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Much has been written about the fact that this is a film about a female superhero helmed by a woman, and about how this has brought a unique set of sensibilities to the genre. I have nothing further to contribute in this regard. I agree with the assessment in general, and I agree that it
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A black woman in a plaid dress walks into a room full of white men in starched white shirts. She is Katherine Goble, a child prodigy who has been assigned to the Space Task Group at NASA owing to her skills at analytic geometry. In an ideal world, the first of these two sentences would
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By far the most refreshing thing about Moana is what it does not have: gender politics. The heroine, a plucky little girl born to the leader of a tribal chief on an island paradise, is expected to succeed her father. There’s no resentment on the part of anyone in the village on this count, nothing
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One of the most affecting scenes in Twelve Angry Men is one where one of the jurors goes on a rant about “these people”, and the others respond to it by simply getting up and walking away and turning their backs on him. The verbal response that comes at the end of the scene is effective
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There’s a lovely scene in Begin Again when a drunk Mark Ruffalo first hears Keira Knightley singing at a bar. You get the usual reaction shots at first — from a bleary-eyed “What am I listening to?” to a more awake “Oh, this is good”. But then… See, Keira is just sitting on a stool with a
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