Avengers: Infinity War
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Avengers: Infinity War

This review will not contain any spoilers for Avengers: Infinity War, but you will know more about the movie after reading it, such that you might make general assumptions and/or guesses about what might happen. If you want to stay blissfully unaware of anything at all surrounding the movie, then please watch it before reading…

Ranked: MCU Movies
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Ranked: MCU Movies

Infinity War is nigh, bringing together all the things in a the crazier superhero mashup in the history of cinema. Basically, it is the most exciting day of the year for me in 2018, so let’s get the celebration started early with a ranking of every single movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to date….

Rampage
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Rampage

Imagine that you’re hanging out with your 8-year-old son/nephew/brother. He turns to you and says, “Do you want to see my new play I wrote?” He’s adorable, so you go along with it, expecting complete gleeful ignorance of all common sense and logic. He takes the stage (which is really just a pillow in the…

A Quiet Place
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A Quiet Place

There are some movies that the wife refuses to see. She doesn’t like gore or spooky images or movies like this — so intense that you almost curl up into the fetal position, struggling to remember to breathe through most of the movie. Apparently, she says that’s not fun. I don’t understand why not. I…

Ready Player One
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Ready Player One

It was a few years after the book came out that I got around to reading Ready Player One. It’s the only book in my adult life that I read from cover to (digital) cover without putting down. I picked it up for a plane trip, continued it on the cab ride to the hotel,…

Pacific Rim: Uprising
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Pacific Rim: Uprising

When I watched the first Pacific Rim in the theater, I walked out with a feeling of whiplash. I wasn’t quite sure what I had watched, and I wasn’t quite sure if the insanity of it all was joyful or groan-inducing. After time (and a few more viewings), I came to fall on the side…