Tag: 2015
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Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
With thrilling action and great visual flair, Mad Max: Fury Road is a welcome return to this world by George Miller and the movie to beat this summer.
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Ex Machina (2015)
Ex Machina is great, slow-building tech thriller with a chilling conclusion to the story and features three up and coming actors.
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Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
Age of Ultron brings more action and character and story, but it’s all weighed down a bit too much by having to service so many characters.
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While We’re Young (2015)
Noah Baumbach is a director who tends to run hot or cold for me. I have not seen all of his filmography, having missed out on his mid-2000s works The Squid and the Whale and Margot at the Wedding. Kicking and Screaming, considered to be a 90s classic, did nothing…
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Furious 7 (2015)
Like many of the action stunts that have occurred during its seven film run, the trajectory of the Fast & Furious franchise is defying belief. Nobody imagined at its inception, when it started as a not-so-subtle rip-off of Point Break that substituted fast cars for surfboards, that it would spawn…
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It Follows (2015)
The horror genre has become like the rom-com genre to me; there is a lot of content generated, and most of it is pandering garbage. In the midst of that garbage, there are a handful of hidden gems every year that pleasantly surprise and are genuinely enjoyable and rise above the…
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Cinderella (2015)
Cinderella is a modern update of the classic fairy tale that remains faithful to the source material, looks great, and deals with themes of courage, kindness, grace, and forgiveness.
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Chappie (2015)
Neill Blomkamp burst onto the movie scene in 2009 with District 9, a sci-fi film backed by Peter Jackson that tackled societal issues in South Africa through the prism of alien living in Johannesburg slums that had essentially crash-landed on earth and were segregated from humans. He followed it up with…
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What We Do In The Shadows (2015)
What If I told you that some of the minds behind Flight of the Conchords got together and made a mockumentary film? What if I told you it was a mockumentary about vampires? And what if I told you it was a mockumentary about four different kinds of popular vampires…
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