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Category: Debaser

  • Dunkirk

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    I’d been looking forward to watching this, and I have to agree that it probably would have had more of an impact if seen in a theater (especially in IMAX). That said, I still quite enjoyed it, and was pretty much glued to the screen from start to finish. Not my favorite Nolan film, but…

  • Waves ’98

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    I caught this on Mubi, a Lebanese short film (a Cannes Palme d’or winner) that’s mostly animated, but mixing in a few live-action/photographic elements. It has a dream-like or poetic structure, and so narratively I didn’t find much to latch on, but I really loved the visuals on show, beautifully animated.

  • Kingsman: The Golden Circle

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    I was pretty excited to watch this — as I wrote when I re-watched The Secret Service not that long ago, I liked it much more the second time around, and was now hyped for more. Overall, I can say I enjoyed it, especially the action sequences which are all top notch (especially that car…

  • Good Morning, Vietnam

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    I came into this expecting the laughs, and it is indeed still incredibly funny — probably the funniest Williams performance in a movie? — but I’d forgotten (or didn’t appreciate at the time) the fact that it’s really well shot. There are quite a few sequences where I was really struck by how interesting  and…

  • Prey

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    Well, I’m sad to say I’m just not into this game. I was excited to play it, knowing how well it was received (and hearing a lot of friends say good things about it), but I had a play session of about an hour and a half, and didn’t like my time with it at…

  • Ode

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    On top of the Fun House here at Montreal’s Ubisoft studio (where I work), the other Ubi studio making smaller games is Ubisoft Reflections, and they suddenly released a new game this week called Ode (only on PC). I’ve played through half of it (I don’t have a PC at home to play games, so…

  • No Way Out

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    I used to really like watching political thrillers (like the Tom Clancy movies, and stuff produced by Mace Newfeld, like this movie) and I had good memories of this movie. It starts off on the cheesy side — imagine a romance similar to what you get in Top Gun — but by the time the…

  • Mannequin

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    I was quite looking forward to watching this — sure, I didn’t think it would be anything amazing, but I remembered it being fun, in the same way that Weird Science is. I’d completely forgotten that James Spader was in this too — so make that two movies they did together in 1987, the other…