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Ain’t No Sunshine

'Sunshine': This is not an underwear ad(An experiment in theft [or fair use] and editing as part of Lazy Eye Theatre’s Bizarro Blog-a-thon.

In the spirit of the character and the blog-a-thon: Bons Erutluc am so proud that me wrote every word!)

Sunshine and Groundhog Day have a lot in common. In each, we see things we’ve seen before, over and over again. But in Sunshine, this doesn’t describe the plot of the film, but the movie itself.*

Resistance Is Futile

I fought Millions for as long as I could. But in the end, it won. It’s a charming little movie that casts magical realism as the mind of a child. Plus: an easy dismissal of Wallace and Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.

All the Rage

There was a moment early in the airless 28 Days Later when I knew that the movie was going to be something special — one of those little expert touches that tells you the filmmakers understand the power of the material and are in complete control of it.

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