Douglas Scully
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Oz the Great and Powerful 2013, directed by Sam Raimi Rating: 6/10 When I saw this movie in IMAX 3D, it was such a fun experience and in the moment it was great. Watching it now at home in a lighted room on a 2D TV over ten years later, it does not work as
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Tora! Tora! Tora! 1970, directed by Richard Fleischer, Toshio Masuda, and Kinji Rukasaku Rating: 9/10 I’ve owned this movie for a while, and have been meaning to watch it for even longer. It’s been a blind spot that I knew one day I would fix, if I could just make the time for a 2.5
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16 Days of Glory 1985, directed by Bud Greenspan Rating: 10/10 There are 54 films (including shorts) in the Criterion Collection’s 100 Years of Olympic Films 1912-2012 boxset, and out of all of them, my favorite is Bud Greenspan’s 16 Days of Glory which captures the athletic feats at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. At 285 minutes,
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Smithereens 1982, directed by Susan Sideman Rating: 10/10 The first time I saw this movie, I watched it three or four times within a week’s time. It’s been years since then, but this is still one of my favorite movies to just put in and become engrossed in. I love a romance about someone caught
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All Good Things 2013, directed by Andrew Jarecki Rating: 6/10 This was a recent purchase added into my collection as I impatiently waited for new episodes of the second season of The Jinx. When I saw All Good Things years ago, before the first season of The Jinx, it didn’t leave much of an impression on me other than
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Avatar: The Way of Water 2022, directed by James Cameron Rating: 9/10 When I saw the first Avatar in theaters, the visuals were extremely impressive, but the plot was extremely predictable and I remember hearing people badmouth it in school pretty much right after and then continuing on for so long that I did not expect to
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