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Do you enjoy movies that don’t know what to do with themselves? Then may I recommend The Forgotten, which has an interesting premise well obscured by a thick catalog of cliches ably protecting the viewer from what could have been a good film.

Do you enjoy great action movies that put as much effort into supporting characters as the main character, so a whole entertaining story fills out? Then may I recommend Beekeeper, with great choreography and characters, good world building, and all around great work.

Do you enjoy movies that can take a subject you have negative zero interest in and still make you watch the whole film? Then may I recommend Whiplash, which is quite well written, with just enough dialogue and not a word wasted. I hate jazz and I don’t even know whether drum has one m or two—but I know this was a great film. Great...
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Episodes 1–7: Fab!

Episode 8 (finale): Uhm.

The problem was it didn’t explain the things it brought up—far too many things left unexplained—and then introduced brand new things—including things that were so…what th’…that they were frustrating to the point of being nonsense.

The final minute in particular was the most inexplicable.

I understand setting up for another season—but that’s what the intro of new things...
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I left my work backpack on the table and Sir Percival Softpaws moved right in.

Tail wrap pro!

Do you enjoy masterfully executed light horror that isn’t scary but is still great? Then may I recommend the innovative Late Night with the Devil, a film that perfectly captures its setting to an amazing degree and is great to watch. Fab production design and art direction. Wonderful casting. One sequence in particular was chef kiss and a study of how to do it. In...
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Do you enjoy religious horror with a few unexpected bits? Then may I recommend Immaculate, a film with a good start, a middle that slows but has a scene that had us wincing, and an exciting and unexpected end that had the whole theater pin-drop silent then breathing and murmuring after. Perhaps a bit gratuitously goreful here and there, and a couple cat scares one...
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Mr. Chase Cricket enjoying the sun.

Do you enjoy ploddingly slow, dull movies with uninteresting characters and a ridiculous, brain-numbing plot (if it can even be said to have one really)? Then may I recommend Spaceman which I stopped watching at the one hour mark because I didn’t care a bit about anything happening on the screen and life is too short.