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Definitely a fun mix of new movies this week on our @moviesandameal #podcast, the insanely fun #Wicker, the documentary smash #YouCanSeeEverything, and the definite movie of the week, #GodzillaMinusZero . Enjoy!
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HEIST turns 25 today.
David Mamet deliberately gave the film an almost timeless look, avoiding contemporary cars, colourful costumes and anything that would pin the story to a specific year. He wanted it to feel like a classic Warner Bros. film noir.
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FIRST LOOK: Here are a few first shots from The Take, a new thriller from Netflix featuring Denzel Washington, Robert Pattinson & Daisy Edgar-Jones. The story here follows a bank guard, a teller, and a master thief tangled in a deadly, non-linear game of cons and double-crosses. Out January 17th. Added to the @letterboxd watchlist.
In this NY Times article with interviews with talented creators of #GodzillaMinusZero, among other things, you learn that amazingly in 1964 suitmation original, Ghidorah was performed by one actor, Shoichi Hirose, in a cumbersome, full-body costume. Enjoy!
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This week @FanaticReel gives his thoughts on #Wicker, @bwilkins45 catches up with #YouCanSeeEverything and the two are then joined by @Penserga25 to talk #GodzillaMinusZero : podbean.com/eas/pb-pcwyu-1ba…
If you liked #Wicker, and I surely did, you can watch Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson’s debut feature, the sci-fi comedy Save Yourselves, for free on YouTube. Biased because it stars my great cousin Sunita Mani, but I found it pretty entirely fun.
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Two years ago, voters powered Trump to the political comeback of the century. On Tuesday, they rejected him comprehensively.
Not sure if an angel gets its wings, but something splended surely has to happen when #OhioState is eliminated from the #CFP after only nine games.
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RECTIFY (2013–2016) is a masterpiece that never found the audience it deserved. Aden Young gives an extraordinary performance as a man trying to rebuild his life after 19 years on death row. Patient, deeply moving storytelling that stays with you long after the final episode.
#GodzillaMinusOne and #GodzillaMinusZero are, thankfully, two almost completely different #movies, and each have their virtues for sure. Just saw Zero and it's still swimming around in my brain.
If you read one thing today, make it this great NY Times interview with @Illeanarama Illeana Douglas about her new book about George Cukor's sensational "The Women," "Jungle Red!" Need to get my hands on that asap.
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Best possible homework, watched masterpiece #GodzillaMinusOne again to prepare for #GodzillaMinusZeroは傑作です and if anything it’s even better than I remembered. Can’t wait to find out Saturday if the sequel can somehow top it.
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T2 TRAINSPOTTING is a sequel about the one thing the original couldn’t prepare its characters for: getting older. Boyle brings them back to the places and memories that defined their youth, only to confront them with the reality that they can’t go back.
What sequels released 15 or more years after the original were actually GOOD?
The ones that managed to recapture what made the first film special without feeling like an unnecessary cash grab.
A few examples that come to mind are 28 YEARS LATER, DOCTOR SLEEP, TOP GUN: MAVERICK and BLADE RUNNER 2049.
What other long-delayed sequels genuinely delivered?