Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio Features Stunning Animation, Plenty of Humanity and Just a Bit of Terror

If you had told me earlier this year that I would see a film version of Pinocchio that featured a cameo by Mussolini, I probably would have guessed that filmmaker […]

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Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: A Wooden Puppet Dreams of Coming to Life While Disney’s New Pinocchio Never Does

It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes movies really depress me. I’m not talking about movies with depressing storylines of someone dying of a disease or breakup movies or any number […]

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Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: Over-Acted and Over-Produced, Remake of Roald Dahl’s The Witches Fails to Capture Any Magic

The Witches

The first thing you notice about the new, Robert Zemeckis-directed adaptation of the classic Roald Dahl novel The Witches is that the focus is on the children, who are very […]

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Film Review: Allied, A Modern Classic Wartime Spy Thriller

Done in a decidedly less flashy style than many of director Robert Zemeckis’ previous works (Back to the Future, Forrest Gump, The Walk), his World War II-set Allied successfully manages […]

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