"Spider-Man: Far From Home" Review (Spoilers)
SPOILER ALERT: This review reveals specific details about the latest "Spider-Man" film. You've been warned. "Spider-Man: Far From Home"...
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Luke Shneour
VFX ARTIST/OBSERVER & FILMSPHERE
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Luke Shneour
- Jun 26, 2019
- 3 min
"Annabelle Comes Home" Review - (Non-Spoiler)
Set in 1973, amid a forest of shag carpeting, “Annabelle Comes Home” is a nice little summer surprise, and quite unexpectedly the...
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Luke Shneour
- Jun 22, 2019
- 5 min
"Toy Story 4" Review - (Spoilers)
Spoiler alert: The following review contains major plot points from all four "Toy Story" films. It is hard to think of a children's...
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Luke Shneour
- Jun 21, 2019
- 6 min
"Child's Play" Review - (Non-Spoiler)
Remakes of 1980s horror movies have had something like a 0% success rate. If that's not enough to give somebody pause before...
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Luke Shneour
- Jun 7, 2019
- 3 min
"Dark Phoenix" Review - (Non-Spoiler)
The epic finale to the X-Men saga that began with 2011’s X-Men: First Class has finally happened, but despite the promise of a fiery...
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Luke Shneour
- Jun 5, 2019
- 7 min
"Rocketman" Review - (Non-Spoiler)
After Bohemian Rhapsody fandangoed its way to a worldwide box office of $903 million (!) and four (!!) Academy Awards, the music biopic...
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Luke Shneour
- May 31, 2019
- 3 min
"Booksmart" Review - (Non-Spoiler)
One of my favorite moments in any movie so far this year comes early in Olivia Wilde’s wonderful “Booksmart,” when a group of cynical...
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Luke Shneour
- May 29, 2019
- 2 min
"Brightburn" Review - (Non-Spoiler)
"What if Superman was a serial killer?" sounds like an automatic elevator pitch. "Brightburn" is exactly what that sets up: the childless...
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Luke Shneour
- May 25, 2019
- 3 min
"Aladdin" Review - (Non-Spoiler)
"Aladdin" is the latest live-action remake of a Disney animated classic. The studio has given themselves a titanic task considering the...
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Luke Shneour
- May 20, 2019
- 6 min
"John Wick Chapter 3 - Parabellum" Review - (Non-Spoiler)
For a semi-retired super-assassin who’s killed more people than the Bubonic plague, John Wick (Keanu Reeves) is actually a pretty...
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Luke Shneour
- May 11, 2019
- 4 min
"Pokemon: Detective Pikachu" Review - (Non-Spoiler)
Have you ever questioned the moral fabric of the Pokémon universe? Sure you have. For starters: In what kind of world would "Pokémon...
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Luke Shneour
- Apr 26, 2019
- 1 min
"Avengers: Endgame" Review - (Non-Spoiler)
“Part of the journey is the end.” "Avengers: Endgame" is not a standalone film, it is not even the sequel to "Infinity War", it is an...
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Luke Shneour
- Apr 10, 2019
- 2 min
"Pet Sematary" Review - (Non-Spoiler)
If remakes must be produced by the Hollywood machine, thirty years feels like an acceptable amount of time between film iterations. A...
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Luke Shneour
- Apr 4, 2019
- 3 min
"Dumbo" Review - (Non-Spoiler)
Like its heartwarming protagonist, "Dumbo" does indeed soar when the focus is on the titular big-eared elephant (thanks to incredible VFX...
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Luke Shneour
- Mar 23, 2019
- 4 min
"Shazam!" Fandango Early Review - (Non-Spoiler)
If the “Wonder Woman” and “Aquaman” movies represented DC Comics’ first big-screen steps away from the austere color palette of the Zack...
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Luke Shneour
- Mar 23, 2019
- 3 min
"Us" Review - (Non-Spoiler)
We are our own worst enemy. To say this was my most anticipated film of 2019 is an understatement. A little more than two years ago,...
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Luke Shneour
- Mar 10, 2019
- 5 min
"Captain Marvel" Review - (Non-Spoiler)
Before I talk about "Captain Marvel", I just want to say that if you see the film and dislike it, it’s alright. I know that a handful of...
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Luke Shneour
- Feb 25, 2019
- 2 min
"The Ballad of Buster Scruggs" Review - (Non-Spoiler)
What at first glance looks like a goofball experiment from the Coens turns into their most open rumination on death. Their fondness for...
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Luke Shneour
- Feb 25, 2019
- 2 min
"Roma" Review - (Non-Spoiler)
Alfonso Cuarón’s passion project is a study in contrasts. On the one hand it deals with a family's most intimate moments, and on the...
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Luke Shneour
- Feb 17, 2019
- 3 min
"Happy Death Day 2U" Review - (Non-Spoiler)
The nice part about time loop movies where the protagonist repeats the same day over and over is it doesn’t feel like a shameless rehash...
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