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2020 Oscar Predictions

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on January 13, 2020January 13, 2020

It’s become a favorite annual tradition for me to do my best impression of every internet know-it-all and blunder boldly into predicting the Academy Awards outcomes among movies I largely ignored. However, this year I’ve actually seen a good number of the movies up for the statue? Weird.

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One Man’s Fairy Tale Ending – Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on August 8, 2019August 8, 2019

The issue is what Once Upon a Time in Hollywood culminates to in terms of a message and moral. Certainly, Inglourious Basterds culminates to a message we can all agree on: Nazis fucking suck.

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Always Be My Maybe & The Law of Rom-Coms vs Musicals

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on June 18, 2019June 19, 2019

If you’re rich you get fancy candlelit dinners and grand speeches, if you’re poor you get to sing and dance.

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Cinema Cage Match – Booksmart Review

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on June 3, 2019June 20, 2019

Want the quick and dirty? This movie is fantastic. Go see it. Bring your friends. Those of you sticking around are going to get the treat of a one on one cage match between Booksmart and its spiritual predecessor, Superbad (2007). 

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The Halloween Club Preview

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on April 4, 2019April 4, 2019

Gerry Maravilla doesn’t waste time. Not his own, and not his viewers’.

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Love, Death + Robots – You Should Be Watching Review

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on April 1, 2019April 1, 2019

Each vignette has not only its own unique style, but its own philosophy, its own universe or corner of the world.

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The Terror From Beneath – Us Review

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on March 24, 2019March 24, 2019

Lupita Nyong’o as Adelaide Watson has set the bar for all of next year’s awards here and now.

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Captain Marvel Review – The Evolution of Villainy and Heroics

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on March 11, 2019March 12, 2019

The movie is saying not only is a female hero here, it’s saying that they’ve been here all along.

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Ingrid Goes West – Dark Comedy That Pulls No Punches About Obsession with Validation Through Social Media

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on February 23, 2019

The heart of it was always going to be in the humans desperately fixated on the screen hungry for that connection.

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