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Mark Ruffalo (Bruce Banner/Hulk), Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Tessa Thompson (Valkyrie) and Tom Hiddleston (Loki) in Thor: Ragnarok

Movies Coming Soon: October 2017

This post is so late that some of the movies have came and gone, but I didn't want to skip a month, so it'll partially be a review post too. I have only watched two movies so far this month, so that won't be hard.

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Read more about the article ‘The Revenant’ review: Torturous
Alejandro González Iñárritu directs Leonardo DiCaprio on the set of The Revenant

‘The Revenant’ review: Torturous

I was talking to my colleagues the other day, and the topic got around to how they would never walk out of a movie halfway, no matter how much they dislike it, because they felt that it was just so rude and disrespectful (to the filmmakers and their efforts in making the film, I suppose). And it reminded me of The Revenant. Because I absolutely hated it.

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Read more about the article Books to Film: ‘And Then There Were None’ book review
The cast of the 2015 BBC miniseries adaptation of And Then There Were None

Books to Film: ‘And Then There Were None’ book review

I recently finished And Then There Were None, a thriller by Agatha Christie. I haven't read an Agatha Christie book in ages, but I picked it up on the recommendation of Anne Bogel from Modern Mrs Darcy in one of her "What Should I Read Next" podcast episodes. Her son also read the book and said it was the best book he ever read, which intrigued me to see what about this book could cause a teenager to love it. I ended up agreeing it is great too. What a baffling mystery and chilling thriller!

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Read more about the article ‘La La Land’ review: A movie I have a love-hate relationship with
Emma Stone as Mia and Ryan Gosling as Sebastian in La La Land

‘La La Land’ review: A movie I have a love-hate relationship with

Today is as good a day as any other to talk about La La Land, a movie that inspires mixed feelings in me. (Also known as the film which lost Best Picture to Moonlight in the most public Oscars flub ever.)

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Read more about the article ‘Everest’ review: The feel-bad movie of the year
Jake Gyllenhaal (Scott Fischer), Jason Clarke (Rob Hall) and Josh Brolin (Beck Weathers) in Everest

‘Everest’ review: The feel-bad movie of the year

If The Martian was the optimistic, feel-good movie of the year celebrating the tenacity of mankind, Everest is the exact opposite, showing that the elements do what they want, no matter what man wills, and woe betide whomsoever dareth challenge Nature!

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Read more about the article ‘Cinderella’ (2015) review: Magical
Lily James and Richard Madden in Cinderella

‘Cinderella’ (2015) review: Magical

There are movies that I like, movies I love, and movies I *love*. The first are movies I think are good and will watch again, maybe once, at the most twice, such as Kingsman: The Secret Service, Birdman, The Divergent Series: Insurgent. (Anything else is overkill.) The second are movies I’ll gladly watch a few more times, like The Lego Movie and Whiplash, though I need some distance between each viewing. The last category belongs to the films that have won my heart and mind entirely, the ones which after I finished watching them for the first time in the cinema, I immediately wanted to go back in and rewatch them a second, third, fourth time. Cinderella belongs squarely in the last.

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