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Aug 2 |
MOVIE REVIEWS |
Eddie Pasa |
with No Comments
We’ve seen the themes of Christopher Robin before in countless films about parents who just don’t have the time – or the soul – to share with their families. They’re breaking their backs at work, tasked with important...
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Mar 8 |
MOVIE REVIEWS |
Eddie Pasa |
with No Comments
Director Ava DuVernay’s adapation of Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time can be likened to a Maypole. At its center is a very solid adventure featuring two loveable, precocious children looking for their father under the...
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Jun 15 |
MOVIE REVIEWS |
Eddie Pasa |
with No Comments
Not gonna lie: Cars 3 caught me off-guard with how unexpectedly touching some parts of it could be. But in that same not-gonna-lie vein, it’s almost a total rehash of the first film, from the opening “Speed… I am...
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Dec 31 |
COMMENTARY |
Michael Parsons |
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Jon Favreau has his passion projects, and then he has his passion projects. Take his last film, “Chef”, a fairly light under-the-radar dramedy with the writer/director in the starring role as a sought after culinary wizard...
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Dec 9 |
MOVIE REVIEWS |
Eddie Pasa |
with 1 Comment
There’s a running theme throughout all of the latter-day Walt Disney Animation Studios films which binds them all together: empowerment, be it of the female variety, the disenfranchised, or the shunned. Moana is no different,...
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Jun 30 |
MOVIE REVIEWS |
Eddie Pasa |
with 1 Comment
Watching Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of The BFG, you can’t help but wonder if this is what a Harry Potter movie would have looked like had he taken the reins on one of the films from that series. There’s a great deal of...
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May 27 |
MOVIE REVIEWS |
Eddie Pasa |
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The night before my six-year-old daughter Moira and I went to the screening of Alice Through the Looking Glass, we caught up on Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland from 2010, which was Moira’s birth year. Dark, torpid, and...
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Apr 14 |
MOVIE REVIEWS |
Eddie Pasa |
with 1 Comment
From the second the lights go all the way down after the trailers are over and the theater’s “Feature Presentation” bumper has played, we’re brought into a world of nostalgia by Disney’s current logo having...
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Dec 22 |
MOVIE REVIEWS |
Eddie Pasa |
with 2 Comments
As it says in my bio, my first solid childhood memory is being in a movie theater, squealing with delight while the X-Wings skimmed the trench in 1977’s Star Wars (not bearing its A New Hope secondary title). This was...
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Dec 16 |
MOVIE REVIEWS |
Michael Parsons |
with 1 Comment
Note: This review is being written under the assumption that the reader has seen the original “Star Wars” trilogy and won’t scratch their heads at the words “Wookiee”, “X-Wing” or “Death Star”. There are no...
