Mad Max: Fury Road is incredible. You probably already know this, either because you’ve seen the film or someone has frantically rushed up to you and shouted something along the lines of, “GAGHHH IT’S AMAZING GO SEE IT YESTERDAY.” It puts every action movie of the last decade to shame. It’s so perfectly executed,...
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Like every child of the 90’s, I grew up on a steady diet of Arnold Schwarzenegger movies. I think I saw Terminator 2–edited for TV of course–before I could even walk. I wasn’t old enough to think about what a strange movie star he was, with his absurdly long name and thick accent. I just...
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‘Over-stuffed’ doesn’t even begin to describe Avengers: Age of Ultron. One wonders if Marvel executives held writer-director Joss Whedon at gunpoint while shouting, “You must include this character! And this character! And don’t forget this one! And you better make sure to mention stuff that will be important for later movies!! WRITE! WRITE! GET...
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“The problem is the tone”, is something I frequently say when speaking negatively about a movie. A movie can have everything going for it, a great cast, good director, and solid premise but if it gets the tone wrong, everything falls apart (see Maps to the Stars). In that regard, Justin Benson and Aaron...
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The wait is over. Finally, after all these years of turmoil, we can sit down and enjoy the eighth film in the beloved and treasured Leprechaun franchise. Leprechaun Returns arrives today on digital platforms just in time for Christmas! Which is the perfect holiday for a Leprechaun movie to be released. It’s not as if there’s any...
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It Follows is the best kind of horror movie, one with an ingeniously simple premise that allows the director to create scenes of such tension and suspense that you sit in total dread of what is going to happen next. The characters are well written and believable, the soundtrack is oppressive and threatening, and...
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It takes a truly talented filmmaker to make a movie as unpleasant to sit through as Maps to the Stars. David Cronenberg has made some of my favorite movies and will always be a director I hold in high regard. The first Cronenberg flick I saw was The Fly and it holds up as well today...
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Chappie is getting ripped to shreds by critics. Few are even calling writer/director Neill Blomkamp the ‘next Shyamalan’. Ouch. I was a big fan of his first film, District 9, but never got around to seeing his second, Elysium. I was told the social commentary that worked so well in District 9 was far too heavy handed in Elysium. Well, that...
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Post-apocalyptic stories are a dime a dozen these days. They’re so damn prevalent that whenever I recommend one to somebody they almost always groan. I usually try to sneak that part in at the end of my pitch. We’re just tired of them and most of us find The Walking Dead to be more than enough...
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Netflix is both a wonderful and maddening service. It’s wonderful because there are so many options, so many categories—many of them oddly specific—that it always seems like you’ll be able to find something interesting to watch. You know the truth though. Nine out of ten times, you just sit there, scrolling through titles in...
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