Let’s not beat around the bush: Date Night has a plot we’ve seen before. Two people are mistaken for someone else and they get thrown into a life and death…
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Dw. Dunphy
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So, how has the summer of ten been treating you, cinematically? While I was genuinely looking forward to seeing Toy Story 3 and Inception in the theaters, my score card…
Popdose Staff
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We’ve collected our top 10 favorite movies that are guaranteed to kick your ass. Bring your large soda and popcorn along as we count them down.
Jeff Johnson
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Two men, forced to work together, learning to respect each other along the way. Sometimes one is a loose cannon, sometimes they’re from different cultures, sometimes from opposite sides of…
Bob Cashill
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There’s an upside and a downside to writing about a movie like Inception after it’s been in release for several weeks. The advantage, for me, is that you may very…
Kelly Stitzel
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“Dear Alumni: Can you believe it’s been ten years? Where are you now…?” Kelly Stitzel catches up with the classic soundtrack to Grosse Pointe Blank.
Scott Malchus
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Jon Hamm (Mad Men) stars as Detective Tom Adkins in the film Stolen, a stylish mystery that also stars Josh Lucas as a down on his luck father forced to…
Jeff Johnson
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I’m a little late jumping on the 50th anniversary of the release of Psycho (which opened June 16th 1960), but I had the opportunity recently to attend a special event…
Jeff Giles
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Zac Efron leaves the singing and dancing behind for this week’s Charlie St. Cloud, a drama that proves just how earnestly he can stare into the distance. Looking at Efron’s…
Matt Springer
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My first inclination upon seeing the teaser trailer for Zack Snyder’s upcoming film Sucker Punch was to post a series of boob jokes to Twitter. That’s not surprising. My response…
Jeff Johnson
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Dinner for Schmucks isn’t just Steve Carell and Paul Rudd’s latest collaboration — it’s also the most recent in a long list of American remakes of French films.
Kelly Stitzel
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One of the great things about art is that as you grow, a piece of art — whether it be a painting, a piece of music, a book, a film,…
Jeff Giles
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As the latest round of would-be blockbusters lines up at a theater near you, Popdose looks back at the box office totals of yesteryear. This week, we revisit the Top…
Jeff Giles
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Kevin Smith is a writer first, director second. Even his most passionate fan would have a hard time arguing the merits of Smith’s directing technique, which mostly consists of filming…
Bob Cashill
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As No Concessions heads off to the wilds of Wisconsin, land of Leinenkugels and cheese curds, for its annual constitutional a word must be said about Predators. The other week…
Bob Cashill
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Columbia Pictures Film Noir Classics II is one sequel that couldn’t be more welcome this summer. Hot weather goes well with hothouse tales of lust, greed, and the five other…
Ken Shane
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On May 18 of this year, the Rolling Stones released a remastered and expanded edition of what is arguably the greatest rock and roll album ever made, Exile On Main…
Jeff Johnson
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Christopher Nolan’s latest movie has Jeff Johnson thinking…about movies that make you think.
Jeff Giles
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Its Blu-ray debut is timed to take advantage of the hubbub surrounding director Christopher Nolan’s latest film, but 2002’s Insomnia would make for a fine summer reissue even if Warner…
Kelly Stitzel
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OK, look — I know many of you haven’t seen this movie, so I’m being a little self-indulgent by writing about it. But I’ve been searching for this soundtrack far…
Jeff Giles
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Like wrinkles on a middle-aged man, time has a way of making even the most mundane movie appear distinguished. Maybe you were a kid when you first saw that middlebrow…
Jeff Giles
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What were we watching this week in ’83? Five sequels, a great comedy duo, a gaggle of Ewoks, and one mustachioed action hero driving his career off the tracks!
Jeff Johnson
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With Robert Rodriguez’s Predator reboot just around the corner, Jeff Johnson looks back at the testosterone-fueled action orgy that started it all.
Bob Cashill
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The word ”asshole” reverberated throughout New York’s Film Forum as the press screening of The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector, which plays there through July 13, ended. As…
Jeff Johnson
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Thirty years ago, Airplane! arrived in theaters, changing spoof comedy, Turkish prisons, and jive-talking old ladies forever.
Kelly Stitzel
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I have a thing for films about a woman’s journey of self-discovery that take place against the backdrop of scenic Italy. There’s Under the Tuscan Sun, the 2003 film based…
Bob Cashill
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Birds of a feather flock together this week, as I pull from the stacks two recent releases that a) have our feathered friends in their titles, b) are psychological thrillers,…
Scott Malchus
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She’s Out of My League stays true to the romantic comedy formula. Boy meets girl, boy gets girl, boy loses girl, and then they reunite after a long chase at…
Scott Malchus
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While the other members of Monty Python have drifted in and out of the fold throughout the legendary comedy troupe’s 40 years, Eric Idle has almost single-handedly kept the legacy…
Bob Cashill
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Once again Popdose didn’t send me to Cannes, and I imagine Toronto, Venice, and Telluride are off my itinerary. (If you think it should, start a Facebook campaign, or Twitter….