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TANGLED2010Directed by Byron Howard and Nathan GrenoWritten by Dan Fogelman, plus innumerable others, over more than a decadeSpoilers: severeAs I've made it clear that I date Disney's Second Renaissance back to 2008 and the ever-underrated Bolt (which has the benefit of encompassing the following...
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SUPERGIRL2026Directed by Craig GillespieWritten by Ana Nogueira and Jeremy Slater (based on the comic book Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow by Tom King and Bilquis Evely)Spoilers: moderateOf the many angles from which one could approach Supergirl, probably the most unavoidable is as a post mortem,...
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Nothing about the current trajectory of AI development is inevitable. It was shaped by the thousands of subjective decisions of a tiny elite, and continues its march based on the active participation and tacit consent of people globally. adactio.com/links/22635
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ROBIN HOOD2018Directed by Otto BathurstWritten by Ben Chandler and David James KellySpoilers: moderateIn the mid-10s, Hollywood had no fewer than three Robin Hoods in development, and that's mysterious to me, given that only a few years earlier, Ridley Scott's Robin Hood had posted losses measured...
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ROBIN HOOD2010Directed by Ridley ScottWritten by Ethan Reiff, Cyrus Voris, and Brian HelgelandSpoilers: moderate, but higher than you'd think possible in a movie described as "the origin of Robin Hood"You can't say that the 2010 film bearing the simple title Robin Hood isn't doing something novel...
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ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES1991Directed by Kevin ReynoldsWritten by Pen Densham and John WatsonSpoilers: inapplicable, reallyRobin Hood's theatrical appearances died back during the 70s, following a period of thirty-odd years where his story was told just an unbelievable number of times, in...
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ROBIN AND MARIAN1976Directed by Richard LesterWritten by James GoldmanSpoilers: moderate shifting pretty immediately into severe, and I guess you could feel deceived that I said it was ever "moderate"The ending of Robin and Marian is not, in broad strokes, a surprise, or at least it would not be...
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THE BANDIT OF SHERWOOD FOREST1946Directed by Henry Levin and George ShermanWritten by Wilfred H. Pettitt and Melvin LevyTHE SON OF ROBIN HOOD1958Directed by George ShermanWritten by George S. Slavin and George W. George (no, really)Spoilers for either: moderateSo when one sets their mind to a...
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MORTAL KOMBAT II2026Directed by Simon McQuoidWritten by Jeremy Slater (actually based, remarkably enough, more than anything else on the video game Mortal Kombat II by Ed Boon and John Tobias)Spoilers: moderateBehold: Mortal Kombat II, the fourth theatrically-released, live-action* Mortal Kombat...
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MORTAL KOMBAT: ANNIHILATION1997Directed by John R. LeonettiWritten by Lawrence Kasanoff, Joshua Wexler, John Tobias, Brent Friedman, and Bryan Zabel (based on the video game Mortal Kombat 3 by Ed Boon and John Tobias)Spoilers: moderateAs we discussed, 1995's Mortal Kombat was that rarest of things...
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MORTAL KOMBAT1995Directed by Paul W.S. AndersonWritten by Kevin Droney (based on the video game by Ed Boon and John Tobias)Spoilers: moderateOnce upon a time, video game movies were not a major pillar of the global film box office, and in fact were pretty widely-shunned, in part because, once upon...
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THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD1938Directed by Michael Curtiz and William KeighleyWritten by Rowland Leigh, Norman Reilly Raine, and Seton I. MillerSpoilers: N/AThe Adventures of Robin Hood can feel downright inevitable: Erroll Flynn as Robin Hood is just one of those incredibly natural castings,...
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LIVE AND LET DIE1973Directed by Guy HamiltonWritten by Tom Mankiewicz (based on the novel by Ian Fleming)Spoilers: severeA man comes, but he didn't travel quickly, and he brought the opposite of destruction; he did have purpose. Change was in the cards, so to speak, for James Bond, and of course...
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More capsule or at least capsulish reviews as we finally finish cleaning up the movies of the previous year, three months and change into the new one. Herein we discuss Resurrection, House of Dynamite, Black Bag, and The Running Man.RESURRECTIONCan you guess the theme of these five graybles? I...
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THE HIDDEN1987Directed by Jack SholderWritten by Jim Kouf and Jack SholderSpoilers: moderateBack when we were talking about the Nightmares On Elm Street, I remarked that while they (by which I mean the original series, that is, the first six) were made by people who did not necessarily have...