With Nope (a terrible title) being a science fiction / horror film with some sort of flying saucer at its center there was no way I was going to miss this one.  It’s a wild film, and a layered one, ambiguous […]

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The Despicable Me films are irrepressibly cute, in a clever, wacky kind of way, and this movie (the fifth in the franchise, not counting a few shorts) continues the tradition.  It’s as clever and fun as the others, and to a […]

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“The mission is not what it seems.”  Well, no kidding.  Virtually no suspense / thriller / action / drama made today is what it seems, because trickery and duplicitousness is what filmmakers think audiences want.  Double- and triple-crosses abound in […]

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