Running Shaadi

The blurring and muting of every occurrence of "dot-com" within the movie plucked me out of the story every time it happened--by the end, it was the only thing I wanted to know about the making of this film.

They left this wide open for a sequel, but I'm not sure we have to worry too much about that.

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Hidden Figures

The stuff they never taught us in school, richly brought to life.

The thing that kept tripping me up was that the dour geek who kept on harshing Taraji P. Henson's mellow reminded me too much of some dillweed from my own workplace, thereby shattering the cinematic spell every time he appeared on screen.



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Lion

Okay, I've had some rough train transfers, but this is absolutely ridiculous.

Easily one of the best movies I've seen in a year or more.




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Moonlight

Fascinating to watch, but there's no reassurance of a hopeful future.

Kinda like real life, I guess.

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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

I didn't like their use of new technology, but I did like the new droid!

Then new droid was awesome.


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Dangal

Probably one of the most exciting sports movies I've ever seen.

And that includes both "Karate Kid" movies (not Rocky, or The Mighty Ducks, though--I've never seen those).



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Fences

Without giving too many spoilers, I want to tell you that this is an adaption of the wonderful Broadway play, and not a documentary about fence construction.

Also, it is way better than that movie where Denzel played Sully Sullensully.




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