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Thursday, May 30, 2019

Godzilla: King of the Monsters Is More of a Pauper Among Modern Monster Movies

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The greatest enemy Godzilla can never seem to defeat is not King Ghidorah nor Biollante nor Baragon. No, it's boring human characters,...

Patrick Rarely Rivets But It's Also Rarely Worse Than Harmless. Plus, It's Got a Cute Pug!

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I love all dogs in general (I don't know if you've heard, but dogs are good, Brent) , but there's no question that pugs are my...
Wednesday, May 29, 2019

In Laman's Terms: What Exactly Had Led To The Modern Monster (Movie) Mash?

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One perfect shot from 2018's monster movie hit Rampage In Laman's Terms is a weekly editorial column where Douglas Laman rambles...
Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Bram Stoker's Dracula Is A Sexually Charged Piece of Cinema That Makes For A Delightful Watch

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Bram Stoker's Dracula is one horny movie. It's so horny you might as well call it a crash of rhinos. It's so fixated on gettin...

A Private War Is the Best Kind of Biopic Drama In How Well It Explores the Humanity of a Historical Figure

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It feels like the grim tone of A Private War was always gonna be a barrier to it becoming a widely-seen domestic box office hit but it...
Monday, May 27, 2019

Bodacious Booksmart Brings Bevy of Brilliant Belly-Laughs

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MILD SPOILER ALERT It's the last day of High School for Molly (Beanie Feldstein) and Amy (Kaitlyn Dever), long-time best buddies who...
Sunday, May 26, 2019

Disney's Never Had A 2010s Memorial Day Box Office Hit Like Aladdin While Fellow Newcomers BrightBurn And Booksmart Underperform

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Note: all figures discussed in this article are three-day weekend estimates. Four-day Memorial Day weekend box office grosses are not dis...
Saturday, May 25, 2019

The Ides of March Is A Shallow Exploration of American Politics That Wastes So Many Talented Actors

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MASSIVE SPOILERS WITHIN!! George Clooney is a great actor. He's usually always a charming presence in whatever he pops up in but he...

Aladdin Is No Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland But It Still Falls Short of Being Something Magical

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If you've seen Disney's original Aladdin movie, you've basically seen the new live-action Aladdin feature from director Guy Ri...
Thursday, May 23, 2019

Train to Busan Is A Poignant Ride You Won't Want To End

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Our current golden age of horror movies doesn't just apply to American horror features like Get Out, A Quiet Place or Hereditary , ple...

The Hole In The Ground Stars Out With Promise Before Fizzling Out In A Ho-Hum Finale

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SPOILERS WITHIN  Sarah (Seana Kerslake) and her young son Chris (James Quinn Markey), like so many horror movie protagonists before them...
Wednesday, May 22, 2019

In Laman's Terms: Six Animated Disney Movies That (Probably) Won't Be Getting Live-Action Remakes

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In Laman's Terms is a weekly editorial column where Douglas Laman rambles on about certain topics or ideas that have been on his mind ...

Wine Country Delivers A Vacation That's At Its Best When It Comes To Easygoing Comedy

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Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, Paula Pell, Emily Spivey, Rachel Dratch and Ana Gasteyer are the six leading performers of Wine Country. That...
Tuesday, May 21, 2019

Knock Down the House Is An Inspirational And Humanizing Exploration of American Politics

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Let's not sugar-coat it, the last week of American politics has been a particularly vicious form of disheartening, which is saying som...
Monday, May 20, 2019

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Cuts To The Emotional Bone With Its Harrowing Performances And Camerawork

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When the Hayes Code, a set of restrictions placed on what could or couldn't be depicted in American cinema in order to "protect t...
Sunday, May 19, 2019

Lynne Ramsay And Samantha Morton Deliver A Mesmerizing Portrait of Coping With Grief In The Excellent Morvern Callar

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And so, having now finally watched Morvern Callar , I've seen all four of Lynne Ramsay's feature-film directorial effort. Though M...

Like Many of the Best Time Travel Tales, See You Yesterday Merges Sci-Fi With Intimate Human Experiences

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There are plenty of drawbacks to Netflix's method of releasing its movies with little in the way of prominent promotion but it also ha...

John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum Has "Excellent!" Opening Weekend As A Dog's Journey Goes Nowhere And Sun Is Also A Star Burns Out

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In just one weekend, John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum has exceeded the entire $43 million lifetime gross of the original John Wick movie....
Saturday, May 18, 2019

The Intruder Is Insultingly Forgettable

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MILD SPOILERS FOR THE INTRUDER WITHIN Scott Howard (Michael Ealy) and Annie Howard (Meagan Good) have decided to step away from city lif...
Friday, May 17, 2019

John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum See's The John Wick Series Continuing To Slay

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What a wonderfully out-of-nowhere creation this John Wick series has become.  Not based on any pre-existing source material, the first mo...