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    Review The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961)

    Probably the best B&W sitcom of all time, with the undoubted sexual chemistry between van Dyke and Moore helping things along enormously. It Looks Like a Walnut makes me tear up with laughter each viewing, and the 'Sonny Tufts' alien invasion episode is pretty classic as well. Ever see the...
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    Review King Kong (1976)

    "And as for Jessica Lange... My god was that woman irritating in that film! As King Kong was carrying her through the jungle back to his territory, I was actually shouting at the TV set, "For fucks sake, just eat the bitch! And I don't mean in a good way..." For me personally, the only amusing...
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    Review Black Panther (2018)

    I will go to see this if they team him up with the Pink Panther. Just as long as Steve Martin or Roberto Benigni is not involved, that is.
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    Review Sony Announces ‘Clean Version’ Initiative

    Oh, my crit was pretty generalized and scattershot on that. I think all of us have inner child things we cherish. There are several YA novels I re-read on an annual basis myself. It's just that there seems to be an overall downward spiral throughout the media industry, print, film, etc. to...
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    Review Sony Announces ‘Clean Version’ Initiative

    This, my friends. This is the version that cries out to be made...
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    Review Mary Poppins Returns (2018)

    Best guess is that what Julie really means is: she doesn't want to touch this stinker with a barge pole. I like 'incredibly gracious' as a euphemism for this, however.
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    Review Mary Poppins Returns (2018)

    A DENGO AYTE MAH BAYBAY! Yes, I enjoy much of her work (okay, there was Ricki and the Flash), but I tend to think she's rather vastly oversold on her ability with accents.
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    Review Mary Poppins Returns (2018)

    Presumably so we can hear the critics rave, yet again, over one of Meryl Streep's unconvincing British accents.
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    Review The Mummy (2017)

    I'm on board with that. I'd much rather see a film about Droopy Dawg than another film about superheroes with a closetful of psychological 'droopy drawers'...
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    Review Sony Announces ‘Clean Version’ Initiative

    They just replicate them like little VHS tapes...
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    Review Misfits (2009)

    They'll 'Hollywood-ize' it in all the wrong ways, as per usual.
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    Review Trek Babylon!

    And surprising for all the wrong reasons. Looks pretty apparent she's let herself go dreadfully; often enough a possible indicator of mental illness. You have to wonder if Hollywood just tends to attract the fragile and defective, or are some people made that fragile and defective by the...
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    Review Trek Babylon!

    Ye gods, that's just sad...
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    Review Sony Announces ‘Clean Version’ Initiative

    'Night to you too :). Over here they make the process of voting practically trauma-level, and the fact that everyone, in our great land of states' rights is allowed to do it their own way doesn't help (not to mention increasing the possibility of fraud. If I ever get in charge, one of my first...
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    Review Sony Announces ‘Clean Version’ Initiative

    Cannot wait for the fireworks (rubs hands gleefully). God knows, we've suffered with our share of cretins-in-charge (I've often said that any country which can elect, and then re-elect, the likes of Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George Dubya Bush in the course of one half-century pretty much...
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    Review Sony Announces ‘Clean Version’ Initiative

    Not surprising. It's become the new American way--sand the rough edges off of everything so that no one's delicate sensibilities ever risk being offended. Since the mental age of the average American seems to be dwindling down into childhood more and more each year (YA novels are now among the...
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    Review The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018)

    I'm betting you'll like it. James Garner is also very funny as Pryce's business adversary in the deal. The book itself is a fascinating glimpse at the shark pit of American business practice.
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    Review Manhunt: Unabomber (2017) Aug 1st

    Given all the to-do over it when he was finally caught, I'm surprised it's taken this long for someone to do a dramatized version of Kaczynski's story. Might be not bad, but it's always hard to get these true-life crime dramas right, very few of them ever come off as anything more than...
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    News Cowboy Bebop (Live-Action)

    Most live-action stuff is so cartoonish anyway, you wonder why they bother. Seriously though, this trend of turning animated originals into live-action films is one I'm beginning to tire of real fast, along with the endless remake and reboot crazes. People, just produce original stories...
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    Review The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018)

    That one was really special. Not much of a fan of the musical genre myself, but I could have seen that show, with Pryce, a couple of dozen times. And I have a small laundry list of Broadway and London productions I'm getting tickets for, just as soon as I get that time machine up and running...
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