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  • Have You Seen: Jurassic Park (1993)

    Have You Seen: Jurassic Park (1993)
    2025/06/15
    In our series "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time. Our conversation focuses on the experience of someone watching the movie for the first time today and their reaction.

    This week we revisit Jurassic Park, a 1993 science fiction movie directed by Steven Spielberg and Jeff Goldblum, Samuel L. Jackson and Sam Neill, in which wealthy businessman John Hammond and a team of genetic scientists have created a wildlife park of cloned dinosaurs.

    We talk about how Jurassic Park spawned one of Hollywood's most iconic franchises of all time, how the movie uses dinosaurs to represent child like wonder and fear at the same time, how the movie's effects and storytelling hold up more than 30 years later, and debate whether the story leans on the scales too much to make its point and whether Jurassic Park is just a zoo or something more.

    Check out the video version:
    https://youtu.be/cfxffzb7WuY
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    45 分
  • Spoiler Review: Clown In A Cornfield

    Spoiler Review: Clown In A Cornfield
    2025/06/11
    This week we review and discuss Clown in a Cornfield, a slasher horror movie directed by Eli Craig and starring Katie Douglas, Aason Abrams and Kevin Durand, in which the teenagers of a rural town are hunted by killer clowns.

    We discuss how the movie delivers on the promises made by its name, how it is actually a timely allegory for globalisation and generational grievances and resentment, why the social commentary worked for us in this movie when it falls flat in so many others, how it is an above average slasher movie, and much more.

    Check out the video version here:
    https://youtu.be/KqrWiLVidNo


    0:00 Intro
    0:18 Movie Recommendations
    03:48 Summary and Non-Spoiler Impressions
    12:20 Spoiler Discussion
    55:15 Conclusion and Ratings
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    59 分
  • Have You Seen: The Returned (2013)

    Have You Seen: The Returned (2013)
    2025/06/08
    In our series "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time. Our conversation focuses on the experience of someone watching the movie for the first time today and their reaction.

    This week we revisit The Returned, a 2013 Spanish-Canadian zombie thriller directed by Manuel Carballo and starring Emily Hampshire and Kris Holden-Ried, about a physician and her infected husband go on the run to avoid angry demonstrators when a rare and difficult to obtain medicine that requires daily doses to stave off the effects of a zombie infection runs low.

    We talk about why The Returned is probably the most realistic zombie movie, how the writers drew from real world public health crises including the history of HIV and AIDS to craft a believable world in which some of the population carries the zombie virus, the difference between zombie movies and movies that have zombies in them, and much more.

    Check out the video version here:
    https://youtu.be/2arEl6_HjCk
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    46 分
  • Spoiler Review: Karate Kid Legends

    Spoiler Review: Karate Kid Legends
    2025/06/04
    This week we review and discuss Karate Kid: Legends, a martial arts drama movie directed by Jonathan Entwhistle and starring Jacke Chan, Ben Wang and Ralph Macchio, in which Li, a kung fu prodigy who, after moving to New York and confronting with a local karate champion, receives help from his former master Mr. Han and karate sensei Daniel LaRusso.

    We discuss how character is both the movie's strong suit and it's biggest weakness through its likeable characters even though in several cases their character arcs leave much to be desired, how Hollywood tends to struggle with martial arts and whether this movie rises above that, how the movie fits in with the lore and spirit of the previous movies in particular how it handles Mr Miyagi's legacy, and much more.

    Check out the video version here:
    https://youtu.be/uMMBWl0GW9s

    0:00 Intro
    0:20 Movie Recommendations
    04:01 Summary and Non-Spoiler Impressions
    09:44 Spoiler Discussion
    49:31 Conclusion and Ratings
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    52 分
  • Spoiler Review: Star Wars Andor Season 2

    Spoiler Review: Star Wars Andor Season 2
    2025/06/01
    This week we review and discuss season 2 of Star Wars: Andor, a science fiction spy thriller series directed by Tony Gilroy and Diego Luna, Stellan Skarsgard and Adria Arjona, in which thief-turned-rebel spy Cassian Andor during the formative five years that lead to the events of the two films, exploring how he becomes radicalized against the Galactic Empire and how the wider Rebel Alliance is formed.

    We discuss whether season 2 lived up to the hype created by season 1 and whether it was worth the wait, whether it lives up to its reputation of being smart Star Wars for grownups, whether it is proper Star Wars and what that even looks like, why some of us couldn't get on board with the storytelling style, and much more.

    Check out the video version:
    https://youtu.be/wSFwfmyE4_0

    0:00 Intro
    0:20 Summary and Non-Spoiler Impressions
    7:25 Spoiler Discussion
    55:46 Conclusion and Ratings
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    59 分
  • Spoiler Review: Mission Impossible - The Final Reckoning

    Spoiler Review: Mission Impossible - The Final Reckoning
    2025/05/28
    This week we review and discuss Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, a action spy movie directed by Christopher McQuarrie and starring Tom Cruise, Hayley Atweell and Angela Bassett, in which Ethan Hunt and his Impossible Mission Force team unite to prevent the Entity, a rogue AI, from unleashing global destruction against humanity.

    We discuss whether this movie delivers on its promises of breathtaking stunts and action set pieces, why keeping promises is important for movies, which parts of the story worked for us and which didn't and whether that mattered in this kind of movie, whether the movie has its full effect for people not immersed in the franchise, and much more.

    Check out the video version here:
    https://youtu.be/wkjdkDBE9oY

    0:00 Intro
    0:20 Best Recent Thing Watched
    5:11 Summary and Non-Spoiler Impressions
    11:41 Spoiler Discussion
    48:29 Conclusion and Ratings
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    53 分
  • Have You Seen: 28 Weeks Later (2007)

    Have You Seen: 28 Weeks Later (2007)
    2025/05/25
    In our series "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time. Our conversation focuses on the experience of someone watching the movie for the first time today and their reaction.

    This week we revisit 28 Weeks Later, a postapocalyptic zombie film directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo and starring Robert Carlyle, Rose Byrne and Idris Elba, about the efforts of United States-led NATO forces to establish a safe zone in London, the consequence of two young siblings breaking protocol to find a photograph of their mother, and the resulting reintroduction of the Rage Virus into the safe zone.

    We talk about our disappointment in 28 Weeks Later after we liked 28 Days Later, how this movie squanders its potential and undoes any unique elements the first movie used to differentiate itself from the zombie genre, how the movie is thematically empty and how other zombie media handle the reconstruction story better, how it relies on idiot plots, and much more.

    Check out the video version here:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gofxavw9tO4
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    44 分
  • Spoiler Review: Final Destination Bloodlines

    Spoiler Review: Final Destination Bloodlines
    2025/05/21
    This week we review and discuss Final Destination: Bloodlines, a supernatural horror movie directed by Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein and starring Kaitlyn Santa Juana, Tony Todd and Brec Bassinger, about a college student who inherits visions of a previous premonition that averted a deadly structural failure in 1968 from her dying grandmother and is warned that Death is coming for her family.

    We discuss why this movie is so successful at reviving its franchise while building of the premise and delivering on its promises, compare favourite kills, why watching this movie made us feel 12 years old again, and much more.

    Check out the video version here:
    https://youtu.be/Y4VG27Sk9i8

    0:00 Intro
    0:18 Best Recent Thing Watched
    8:38 Summary and Non-Spoiler Impressions
    14:49 Spoiler Discussion
    52:49 Conclusion and Ratings
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    56 分