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Can Everyone Just Calm Down About ‘Supergirl’?
‘Supergirl’ might be a mediocre movie, but it hardly marks the death of female superhero cinema, as some on the internet might claim.
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‘Disclosure Day’ Masterfully Made But Misses Spielberg Classic Status
Steven Spielberg brings his signature sense of wonder to Disclosure Day, along with John Williams’ score and Janusz Kaminski’s cinematography, but the sci-fi story doesn’t quite live up to the sum of its parts.
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Big Screen ‘Backrooms’ An Unsettling But Uneven Debut for Kane Parsons
Kane Parsons becomes the latest (and youngest) in the YouTuber-to-horror-filmmaker pipeline with the A24 adaptation of his Backrooms liminal space series.
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Curry Barker’s ‘Obsession’ a Humorous and Harrowing Horror Story
YouTuber-turned-filmmaker Curry Barker’s Obsession is like Get Out for “nice guys”, blending funny, disturbing, and highly entertaining horror with surprisingly impactful themes.
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‘The Drama’ Could Become the Most Discussed Film of the Year
Robert Pattinson and Zendaya star in The Drama, Kristoffer Borgli’s jet-black comedy about a happily engaged couple whose love is put to the test after a shocking revelation during a party game.
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‘Across the Universe’ a visually stunning journey through Beatles’ music
Across the Universe is a stylistic musical from director Julie Taymor (Frida) and adapted from the Beatles songbook. The film, set in the 1960s, follows the story of a dockworker in Liverpool, aptly named Jude (Jim Sturgess), traveling to America to find his father. Upon his arrival in the US, he befriends a rebellious college…
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SNL – Dane Cook commercials
I trust that everyone’s seen those Dane Cook commercials that all the major networks were running for the World Series. Last week SNL did a parody of them. Jason Sudeikis’ impression of Dane Cook was crazy spot on, so I thought I’d share.
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My new appreciation for Kevin Smith
For the past couple weeks, I’ve been watching a ton of Kevin Smith movies. There’s no real reason for it, I just started watching ‘Dogma’ one day and then decided to check out all the other Kevin Smith stuff I had sitting on my shelf. Since then, I’ve become weirdly obsessed with checking out the…
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Guest Review: Control
Anton Corbijn’s Control, the biographical cinematic journey of Joy Division’s Ian Curtis, takes story telling and filming making to a new level. From scene to scene, “Control” is framed in such a way that individual shots are piece of art. Corbijn’s background as a professional photographer and use of symmetry, as well as, an eye…
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… On the subject of ‘Juno’
You can get free tickets to a pre-screening of the film at foxsearchlight.com/juno. This looks to be one of the funniest films to hit theaters this year and you have the chance to catch it before it’s officially released on December 14th. We lucked out and got tickets to it at the 30th Starz Denver…
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Juno
I’m SOOOO excited to see this film. First, I think Jason Reitman’s a great director. Second, it has Michael Cera, who is super funny in a very sweet and genuine sort of way (just look at Superbad). Third, it has Jason Bateman and Cera together for the first time since they both starred in the…
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Today’s birthdays
Happy 38th birthday to South Park co-creator Trey Parker and happy 30th to another comedic genius, Jason Reitman! If we were TMZ, we’d ask “Who’d you rather?”
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Can Wii lose weight?
The annual Electronics Entertainment Expo (E3) took place this past July showcasing all of the major companies in gaming like Sony, Microsoft and, of course, one of the few gaming oriented companies that has remained successful in strictly virtual entertainment, Nintendo. Nintendo unveiled a new Wii Health Pack at E3 that is to be incorporated…
