Tagged: juan recommends

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In A World

Lake Bell has established herself as a genuinely smart and funny voice for women in comedy with her feature directorial debut.

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Jurassic Park

A rich eccentric old man with a good heart takes it upon himself to build an environmental park filled with dinosaurs that end up eating the tourists.

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You’re Next (2011)

What Scream once did for the slasher, Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett have done for home invasion with You’re Next, an impressive and incredibly entertaining subversion of the subgenre.

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Pushing Daisies

Part fairytale romance, part quirky crime mystery solving, part snarky comedy food-loving musical and more; Pushing Daisies achieved a stroke of genius uniqueness that is hardly ever going to show up on television again.

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Conjuring, The

James Wan delivers a seventies style haunted house and possession film that’s a step up from his last work and a nice addition to the genre.

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Pacific Rim (2013)

Under the hand of Guillermo Del Toro, I’m glad to say that Pacific Rim is not only a hell of an spectacle, but it’s also a very solid film for the not-so-good 2013 summer film season.

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Spring Breakers

Harmony Korine’s neon fantasy world assaults the senses with repetition, booze, boobs, and dubstep, only to show his contempt for Spring Break culture.

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Hannibal – Season 1

Hannibal overturns expectations of crime procedurals and Lecter incarnations by focusing on the first-hand and secondhand effects of murder on the mind.