Spin-offs are the new reboot. Big studio movies are usually part of a franchise at this point, and they are going to become even more assembly lines, what with new,…
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Brian Boone
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So the troubled B-movie-homage-that’s-also-a-B-movie The Canyons is finally coming out this week, starring Lindsay Lohan and James Deen. I think at some point we all thought that porn would lure…
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Popdose Staff
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The Popdose Staff uses the event of being an extra to extol the virtues of John Candy.
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Brian Boone
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A lot can happen from the time a script is turned in to a studio to the time the film actually goes into production. Actors are cast and then recast,…
Sara Maria Vizcarrondo
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Lousy with comically ambiguous situations, Computer Chess watches a convention of software geniuses compete to prove their programs are capable of besting a human at chess. Writer/director Andrew Bujalski loves…
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Brian Boone
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This week the ”found footage”-style horror movie fades briefly and unexpectedly into oblivion like a spooky ghost girl in favor of The Conjuring, a horror movie with a traditional narrative…
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Brian Boone
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The big news surrounding Grown Ups 2, other than the fact that it’s yet another cynically-conceived way for Adam Sandler to hang out with his friends at a waterpark for…
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Janson Jinnistan
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Guillermo del Toro’s long awaited sci/fi epic, Pacific Rim, is soon upon us, and to prepare, we should take a look at the inspirations beneath it that run decades deep. …
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Dw. Dunphy
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Eagle Vision’s 4-DVD video retrospective of Jethro Tull live is a gift to longtime fans.
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Matt Springer
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George Lucas has been written off as an emotionless technophile who built a billion-dollar empire on the backs of Ewoks and clones. To be fair, he probably is exactly that….
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Brian Boone
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A new big-screen version of The Lone Ranger comes out this weekend, starring Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow as Tonto. It looks less like a faithful adaptation of the…
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Rob Ross
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I’ve written about this movie previously, but now, with the film making its national premiere in theaters, on InDemand and iTunes on July 3rd, I had the opportunity to ask…
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Dw. Dunphy
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Disguised as an epic sci-fi tale of humanity’s fall and rise, Things To Come has a darker, unsettling agenda.
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Janson Jinnistan
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It’s probably not the word the right word to call Richard Pryor an “underdog”, is it? One of the most financially successful stand-up comedians of all time, as well as…
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Brian Boone
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As Americans we like our president to be some combination of likable and better than us. Our last two presidents got in this way, albeit in very different ways —…
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Brian Boone
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Once Disney took a more draconian handle on Pixar, it was inevitable that they’d make the tiny, massively-gifted studio start churning out sequels and prequels to their most marketable hits….
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Chris Holmes
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Here are 15 films with great lines that we can pretty much recite from memory, whether or not we remember anything else about them.
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Brian Boone
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This is the End looks funny, and Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg are excellent screenwriters, and it stars a great cast which consists of every notable comic actor and institution…
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Scott Malchus
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The Clint Eastwood 40-Film Collection would seem to have just about anything a fan of Clint would need.
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Matt Springer
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18 Observations On Star Wars As It Turns 36, Just As I Did Last July 1. This was one of the first VHS tapes we owned; we had a guy…
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Brian Boone
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Despite being the Frank Lloyd Wright of young-adult fiction (in that she’s the towering, influential force, and the first name that comes to mind for her respective discipline), there has…
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