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December 18, 2022

Why Disobedience is Good in Del Toro’s Pinocchio

December 18, 2022/ Ben Kim Paplham
Why Disobedience is Good in Del Toro’s Pinocchio

for almost 140 years now, Pinocchio has been told as a fable about a boy learning what makes a person good

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Animation, Fantasy, Film, Film Review, Adventure
Pinocchio, Guillermo del Toro, Stop-Motion, Netflix
November 02, 2020

Black Reparations and American Imperialism in Da 5 Bloods

November 02, 2020/ Ben Kim Paplham
Black Reparations and American Imperialism in Da 5 Bloods

Spike Lee's new film goes far in its critique, but not far enough.

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November 02, 2020/ Ben Kim Paplham/ Comment
Action, Drama, Film, Film Review
Spike Lee, War, Vietnam, social commentary, Black cinema, Netflix
October 05, 2020

I’m Thinking of Ending Straight White Masculine Things

October 05, 2020/ Ben Kim Paplham
I’m Thinking of Ending Straight White Masculine Things

Charlie Kaufman’s message to an uncertain American future.

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October 05, 2020/ Ben Kim Paplham/ Comment
Film, Film Review, Drama, Romance
Charlie Kaufman, Surrealism, Netflix, social commentary, nostalgia, Jesse Plemons, Jessie Buckley, Toni Colette, David Thewlis, Comedy
December 08, 2018

Isle of Dogs

December 08, 2018/ Ben Kim Paplham
Isle of Dogs

Isle of Dogs acts as a wonderful introductory film for anyone unfamiliar with Wes Anderson’s work…

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December 08, 2018/ Ben Kim Paplham/ Comment /Source
Film, Animation, Drama
Fox Searchlight Pictures, Studio Babelsberg, Indian Paintbrush, Wes Anderson, Jason Schwartzman, Bryan Cranston, Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Jeff Goldblum, Bob Balaban, Kunichi Nomura, Koyu Rankin, Akira Takayama, Greta Gerwig, Frances McDormand, Akira Ito, Scarlett Johansson, Harvey Keitel, F. Murray Abraham, Yoko Ono, Tilda Swinton, Ken Watanabe, Liev Schreiber, Animals, Friendship, Stop-Motion
December 01, 2018

Crazy Rich Asians

December 01, 2018/ Ben Kim Paplham
Crazy Rich Asians

Crazy Rich Asians doesn’t settle for being a political gesture in Hollywood, taking risks rarely seen in romantic comedies.

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December 01, 2018/ Ben Kim Paplham/ Comment /Source
Film, Comedy, Romance
Color Force, Warner Bros, Jon M. Chu, Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Michelle Yeoh, Awkwafina, Lisa Lu, Gemma Chan, Ken Jeong, Jimmy O. Yang, Family, Fairy tale, Crazy Rich Asians
October 16, 2018

Incredibles 2

October 16, 2018/ Ben Kim Paplham
Incredibles 2

Incredibles 2 is poised to cut a knife deep into the heart of what it means to fight discrimination, and it never delivers.

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October 16, 2018/ Ben Kim Paplham/ Comment /Source
Film, Animation, Comedy, Action
Incredibles 2, Disney, Pixar, Brad Bird, Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Sarah Vowell, Huckleberry Milner, Samuel L. Jackson, Bob Odenkirk, Catherine Keener, John Ratzenberger, Superpowers, Superhero, Family, Teenagers, Animals
October 03, 2018

The Revenant

October 03, 2018/ Ben Kim Paplham
The Revenant

The Revenant is a story that will haunt the audience for a long time.

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October 03, 2018/ Ben Kim Paplham/ Comment /Source
Film, Drama
Regency Enterprises, 20th Century Fox, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Domhnall Gleeson, Will Poulter, Animals, Revenge, War, The Revenant, Oscar Winner
September 24, 2018

Peter Rabbit

September 24, 2018/ Ben Kim Paplham
Peter Rabbit

Peter Rabbit is one of those films where someone needed to walk into Sony and whack the producers on the head with a carrot.

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Film, Comedy, Fantasy
Sony Pictures, Will Gluck, Beatrix Potter, Columbia Pictures, James Corden, Domhnall Gleeson, Rose Byrne, Daisy Ridley, Margot Robbie, Elizabeth Debicki, Colin Moody, Sia, Sam Neill, David Wenham, Animals, Coming of Age, College
September 17, 2018

Whiplash

September 17, 2018/ Ben Kim Paplham
Whiplash

Whiplash features a band conductor who believes there is a war against jazz….and jazz is losing.

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September 17, 2018/ Ben Kim Paplham/ Comment /Source
Film, Drama
Bold Films, Blumhouse Productions, Sony Pictures, Damien Chazelle, Oscar Winner, Miles Teller, J.K. Simmons, Paul Reiser, Melissa Benoit, Music, Revenge, Mental Health, College, Whiplash
September 02, 2017

The Good Dinosaur

September 02, 2017/ Ben Kim Paplham
The Good Dinosaur

Instead of the “meteorite that wasn’t,” Pixar would have been better leaving this as the “film that wasn’t.”

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September 02, 2017/ Ben Kim Paplham/ Comment /Source
Film, Animation
Disney, Pixar, Peter Sohn, Meg LeFauve, Jeffrey Wright, Frances McDormand, Raymond Ochoa, Dinosaurs, John Ratzenberger, Buddy Comedy, Coming of Age, Animals, Friendship, Computer Animation, Family
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