Pop Culture Maniacs
40 Acres
"To have given each one of the million Negro free families a forty-acre freehold would have made a basis of real democracy in the United States that might easily have transformed the modern world." - W. E. B. Du Bois
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All my reviews of new releases
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
"I've got enough ammunition for a world war."
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F1
Kosinski attempts to cash in on the popularity of "Drive to Survive".
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28 Years Later
"Memento amoris - remember you must love."
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The Life of Chuck
"I am wonderful, I deserve to be wonderful, and I contain multitudes."
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Materialists
"It's like they say: you're not ugly, you just don't have money."
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The Phoenician Scheme
"I supposed I'm moved by this absurd performance."
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Dangerous Animals
Every shark movie lives in the shadow of Jaws. While not the first, it had an immediate and lasting impact on movie culture and the industry. For one, it spawned a bunch of imitators, most of which failed to make any impression, much less a comparable one. Even once that
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Ballerina
The kind of movie which plays a song called "Fight Like a Girl" by Evanescence over the end credits.
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Sister Midnight
"Oh sure, I'm a domestic goddess."
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Bring Her Back
Sally Hawkins going immediately from another Paul King film to an unhinged horror movie is perfection.
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Friendship
"I can see the future. And it's full of pals helping pals."