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Short-Take #15: The Jungle Book (2016)

Short-Take #15: The Jungle Book (2016)

In 1967, Disney released perhaps their most charming movie at that point in time, the animated Jungle Book. Back in the days when the Mousehouse wasn’t pursuing its ongoing quest to buy the entertainment industry (and a country), it was releasing delightful hand-drawn animated features, with endearing characters, repetition of frames to save money (and not just in The Jungle Book, but across…

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Short Take #10: Stranger Things Season 1

Short Take #10: Stranger Things Season 1

Ah, the 80’s. A time we all fondly remember for its iconic feel, nostalgia and array of ground-breaking movies. I mean, I wasn’t born then, so I don’t remember it. But even still, I can understand the decade’s significance, the special place it holds in the hearts of so many, and why film and television making has jumped on the bandwagon of marketing the tone, aspects and style of the decade.…

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Short-Take #6: The Magnificent Seven

Short-Take #6: The Magnificent Seven

If you like Westerns, ‘rootin’ tootin’ cowboys’, standoffs and definitively three-star movies, then 2016’s The Magnificent Seven is the movie for you. If you like none of those things, but your love for Chris Pratt and Denzel Washington outweighs your indifference to the Western genre, then this may still be the movie for you. It’s time to do another Short-Take to determine whether either of…

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The Short-Takes Leaderboard Here it is: the big ol' leaderboard for all of my Short-Take reviews (although probably not very large in reality).