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Mekado Murphy

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Uganda New York Times entertainment
15 Mar 2019
As I was watching the new animated film “Wonder Park,” about a young girl’s imagined amusement park come to life, I wasn’t buying the physics of a roller coaster. “The hills are way too high and steep,” I thought, “the curves too sharp.” And for a moment, it was lost on me that I was analyzing something carrying a giant blue talking bear.
That Time I Built My Own 'Wonder Park'
Uganda New York Times entertainment
18 Jan 2019
One scene in the new Transformers movie “Bumblebee” finds the title character alone in a house. His teen caregiver (Hailee Steinfeld) has been hiding him in the garage, but he finds his way out, touching everything he shouldn’t and, because he’s giant and metal, causing a lot of inadvertent destruction. This bumbling, charming moment plays out as it might in a classic animated comedy, not in a high-stakes action movie.
Uganda New York Times entertainment
8 Jan 2019
The South by Southwest Film Festival has chosen one of this spring’s most anticipated movies for its opening night: Jordan Peele’s new horror thriller, “Us.” The director’s follow-up to his Oscar-winning 2017 hit “Get Out” follows a family (headed by “Black Panther” veterans Lupita Nyong’o and Winston Duke) terrorized by what seem to be evil doppelgängers of themselves. The film’s trailer, which debuted Christmas Day, has been discussed and analyzed by fans on social media for clues to the pl...