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THE CIRCLE (2017) REVIEW

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With such huge ideas and thought-provoking theme, The Circle should have been one of the most intriguing techno-thriller this year. But it ends up otherwise. So what went wrong? The Circle begins with Mae (Emma Watson), a smart, beautiful young woman who is struggling to find a better job to support her family. One day, her best friend, Annie (Karen Gillan), brings a good news for Mae that she has been scheduled to do a job interview at The Circle, the biggest tech-company in the world. And of course, she nails the interview.  But things are getting messy (which, ironically, also happen on the movie itself), when her new boss, Bailey (Tom Hanks), launches a new camera technology that’s integrated with his social app, The Circle, to fulfill his obsession to control the world with full openness and wipe people’s privacy for good. Truth to be told, The Circle starts with a bang. The set-up and its thought-provoking theme are undeniably promising to become another hit for writer / dire...

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) Review

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It's not unusual for Marvel to do something totally different with their sequels. From the shocking direction they made in Captain America: The Winter Soldier until the controversial Iron Man 3, Marvel used to do a very expensive experiment with their risky, but highly calculated formula and turned it into a billion dollar success. So why the hell not they don't do it on their most peculiar film yet, Guardians of the Galaxy? Yes, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is a totally different sequel. It doesn't follow the first volume's winning formula or try to expand the universe even bigger—which nearly every franchise would do. Instead, Vol. 2 is focusing itself on answering questions. If the first movie is more like Joss Whedon's Firefly, then Vol. 2 feels more like Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back. No, I didn't mean that this vol. 2 is a far better movie than the first outing. I'm talking about the overall theme and how different it is from its predecessor. GotG V...