2014 in Review: The Top 10 Movies of the Year
With Christmas behind us and a new year ahead, it would be easy enough to simply mark off time until I finally get around to seeing Into the Woods (with its unfortunate Christmas release date)…
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Guardians of the Galaxy: The Cosmic Avengers
In case it wasn’t obvious by now, I am a fierce fan of the Marvel Cinematic Universe: the shared-continuity, meta-franchise that includes, among others, the Iron Man, Thor, Captain America and Avengers films. Seeing as how I’ve already…
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The Days When Men Were Men and Santa Claus Conquered the Martians
The perennial problem with Thanksgiving is the holiday’s utter lack of suitably themed holiday movies. True, we have Trains, Planes and Automobiles, and then there’s Thankskilling, I guess. Really, though, that’s it. I’m so starved…
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WhyThe Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 1 Worked Despite Itself
Call me a Negative Nancy, but I was immensely nervous going into The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 this last week. Despite the incredibly high quality of the first two films, the third instalment in…
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Why The Muppets (2011) Actually Worked
Before watching it for myself, I simply couldn’t fathom why 2011’s The Muppets was as popular and as well-received a film as it ended up being. The Muppets were those fuzzy, rainbow-colored puppets from the…
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The Top Ten Space Films Not Named Interstellar
After seeing Interstellar this last weekend, I can safely say that it is the definitive Science Fiction film of the Twenty-First Century: a film that’s not quite Inception and not quite 2001: A Space Odyssey,…
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Will Guardians of the Galaxy 2 Be a Big Screen Planet Hulk?
When Marvel announced their Phase 3 movie lineup – which consists of Captain America: Civil War, Doctor Strange, Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Thor: Ragnarok, Black Panther, Captain Marvel, Inhumans, and Avengers: Infinity War Part…
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Is Halloween The Best Horror Themed Franchise Ever?
It’s that time of the year again: when the days shrivel into dusk, the nights grow cold and the autumnal winds kick up gustfuls of carefully piled leaves. It’s Halloween, when horror is at a…
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There’s a Creepy Doll that Always Follows You…
I still can’t believe it. They did it; they actually pulled it off. Against all odds, Blumhouse Productions actually managed to turn Annabelle into a legitimately good movie. The film had everything going against it…