By the time Kiki's Delivery Service came out, Studio Ghibli's penchant for finding magic in ordinary things was quickly becoming the studio's calling card. Yet, as seems to be the case with most animation studios, the critical success of Ghibli's early work did not translate into commercial success (perhaps pairing the melancholy My Neighbor Totoro with the soul-crushingly …
For the last half-decade or so, cinephiles and Quentin Tarantino-fans have been sifting the tea leaves with every new Tarantino release to see if he was looking to stop after making ten movies, a claim he has insisted on multiple times. With Once Upon A Time ... In Hollywood, his presumably penultimate film, we finally get …
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For reasons Blank Check Podcast related, I have spent the dog days of summer going through Tim Burton's filmography. That would pretty much be the only reason to do so, as there are at least two reasons in 2019 why a Tim Burton marathon might not be the most pleasant thing to put oneself through. The first reason …
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