Category: Movies
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80’s Action Hall of Fame: Mall Security, Commando
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Read more: 80’s Action Hall of Fame: Mall Security, CommandoYear after painful year, the galleria spent 98% of its budget on mall security. No one quite knew why, but every fiscal year end, the usual suspects cleared their throats, straightened their ties, and yes, asked for the moon.
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80’s Action Hall of Fame: Toxic Waste, Robocop (1987)
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Read more: 80’s Action Hall of Fame: Toxic Waste, Robocop (1987)So far, only two inanimate objects have had the privilege of HOF induction: Sly’s legendary pair of scissors and, naturally, Bronson’s wine bottle. They deserved their moment in the sun.
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The Naked Gun (2025)
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Read more: The Naked Gun (2025)The main attraction to spoofs and parodies is that they make fun of something popular or familiar. Think about all of the most famous spoofs – every one of them has an explicit target.
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Fantastic Four First Steps (2025): Devon’s Take
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Read more: Fantastic Four First Steps (2025): Devon’s TakeIt is more difficult to measure the median and the middling than it is to explain the excellent or the execrable. There is versatility in the language for the superlatives and the extremes; it is more difficult to engage with the entertainment that does not provoke.
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Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025)
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Read more: Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025)I know you’re worried about Fantastic Four: First Steps. You remember the aggressively mediocre first two Fantastic Four movies featuring Jessica Alba and Chris Evans. You’ve tried to forget the atrocious reboot featuring Miles Teller and Michael B. Jordan.
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When Oscar Shit the Bed: The River (1984)
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Read more: When Oscar Shit the Bed: The River (1984)Fuck farmers. More specifically, fuck American farmers. From top to bottom, they are easily, by leaps and bounds, the most overrated, romanticized, and unjustly flattered group of people who ever lived.
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Eddington (2025)
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Read more: Eddington (2025)I’m having difficulty reviewing this film after only one sitting. It’s engaging but not entertaining, urgent, evocative of other dark contemporary Westerns like No Country for Old Men or Sicario but somehow even grimmer and less fun
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8 Awesome Movie Adaptations That Stayed True to the Book
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Read more: 8 Awesome Movie Adaptations That Stayed True to the BookYou’ve read the book. You’ve pictured the world. The characters live in your mind’s eye like friends you never had. Then comes the movie. The risk? Enormous. The stakes? High. But—sometimes—it works.
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I Know What You Did Last Summer: Still? (2025)
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Read more: I Know What You Did Last Summer: Still? (2025)With the success (I use this term loosely) of the Scream franchise’s reboot, and the profitability of scary movies in general, it was inevitable that another bygone horror franchise would be brought back from the dead.
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Superman (2025)
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Read more: Superman (2025)It’s a summer popcorn film, silly and unserious, a better than middling superhero flick that is made for fans of Silver Age Superman.