Category: Serious
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Lucy (2014): Knowledge, Memory, and What Comes After Us
Lucy (2014): Knowledge, Memory, and What Comes After Us Lucy begins with a deliberately outrageous premise: a human being gradually gains access to more and more of the brain’s capacity. The movie…
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Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014) — Robots, Romance, and One Very Unimpressed Father
Transformers: Age of Extinction offers plenty of reasons to simply watch things transform. Lockdown turning into a gray Lamborghini Aventador LP 700-4 is an obvious example. The vehicle looks sleek and cold,…
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Maleficent (2014): Looking Beyond the Horns
Anyone who knew Maleficent only through Disney’s Sleeping Beauty had every reason to remember her as pure evil. She appeared at a royal celebration, cursed an innocent baby, and looked exactly like…
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Street Fighter: Assassin’s Fist (2014): Why Ryu and Ken Fight Alike
Ryu and Ken have always seemed like two variations of the same fighter. Their personalities are different, but many of their signature techniques come from the same foundation. Street Fighter: Assassin’s Fist…
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Macross: Do You Remember Love? (1984): When an Old Science-Fiction Film Still Feels Close
Macross: Do You Remember Love? was released in Japan in 1984 as a theatrical reconstruction of the original Super Dimension Fortress Macross television story. It is not a digital production, despite how…