Pulp Masterpieces, Part 6: The Mummy (1999)
One of the reasons pulps were so popular was how they could transport a reader to exotic lands without ever leaving their living room or subway train or wherever it was they were reading the...
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ABC's Very Special Dirty Dancing Remake
They don’t remake films as TV movies for artistic reasons. But even given that, this was a horrible desecration, made with absolutely no understanding of what made the original click or why it’s still loved.
Movies that Predicted Trump: V, the Original Miniseries (1983)
-“How’d someone like that get to be your leader, anyway?” -“Charisma. Circumstances, promises. And not enough of us spoke out to question him until it was too late. It happens on your planet, doesn’t...
Pulp Masterpieces, Part 5: The Rocketeer (1991)
Back in my Sky Captain article, I briefly spoke about the world of the ’30s and its fascination with aviation, how there were barnstormers and record breakers, and how there were pulp heroes that...
Pulp Masterpieces, Part 4: The Phantom (1996)
Quite often when a genre or medium dies out, it doesn’t die right away… …usually. The pulps didn’t die out overnight; during the 1940s, they slowly lost their popularity, and by the ’50s, pulps were...
Everything you need to know about law school (is in Legally Blonde)
!!!!! Omigod! Omigod, you guys !!!!! Look at you. You’re pathetic. You’re one month from graduating college and your biggest achievement was making a bong out of half a grapefruit and two crazy straws....
Movie Duel: Hercules vs. The Legend of Hercules
Welcome back to Movie Duels, in which we watch two dueling movies and offer our eminently qualified opinion of which film, if any, has a reason for existing, and which one should have been left back...
5 life lessons from the movie Monster Trucks
Where does your mind go when you think about the movie Monster Trucks? Are you fascinated by a stellar cast signing up for what was essentially a Nickelodeon TV movie? Are you amazed that...
Pulp Masterpieces, Part 3: The Maltese Falcon (1941)
There was a pulp magazine published in the ’20s and ’30s called Black Mask. With a name like that, you might be thinking it was a “saucy pulp” delivering racy content, but in reality when...
Bad Superhero Movie Showdown 2006: X-Men: The Last Stand vs. Superman Returns
After helming two successful X-Men films, director Bryan Singer departed from the franchise to work on smaller, more personal projects. But we’re dealing with Bryan Singer here, which means that he left to do a $200 million Superman film that’s almost entirely made of frowns.
Movies that Predicted Trump: Meet John Doe (1941)
This is part of a series of reviews we’re calling Movies that Predicted Trump, where we discuss the films that foretold (in ways both large and small) the election of Donald J. Trump as...
Pulp Masterpieces, Part 2: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
During the ’20s and ’30s there was a near worldwide fascination with aviation. In the United States, after the Great War, there was a phenomena known as “barnstorming”, where veteran pilots would tour the country...
Pulp Masterpieces, Part 1: The Shadow (1994)
I love the Pulp era. I’m talking about a hardboiled detective looking for a blackbird statue, or a husband/wife team sleuthing it with a precocious dog. I’m talking about a guy taking to the...
Logan (2017): A fitting farewell to an aging franchise
Logan says goodbye to the Wolverine in a way that’s respectful to Hugh Jackman’s tenure and tackles what mortality means, which is generally difficult to do for characters who are either literally immortal or too iconic to fade away.
Movies that Predicted Trump: Being There (1979)
This is part of a series of reviews we’re calling Movies that Predicted Trump, where we discuss the films that foretold (in ways both large and small) the election of Donald J. Trump as...
VIDEO: Foxy Nudes (2004): The most disturbing hentai about media conspiracies ever?
Let’s take things back to the more innocent time of 2004, when the idea that the media might be lying to us was still just a sexy, sexy fantasy! The Hack Attack is back,...
Bad Superhero Movie Showdown 2003: Hulk vs. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
What’s worse: bored confusion or pure nothingness?
Movies that Predicted Trump: Recount (2008)
This is part of a series of reviews we’re calling Movies that Predicted Trump, where we discuss the films that foretold (in ways both large and small) the election of Donald J. Trump as President of...
Bad Superhero Movie Showdown 1997: Batman & Robin vs. Spawn
Welcome to the Agony Booth’s second ever Bad Superhero Movie Showdown, in which we compare two justifiably reviled superhero movies to definitively answer the question of which one fails the most. If the exact...
Movies that Predicted Trump: The Campaign (2012)
This is part of a series of reviews we’re calling Movies that Predicted Trump, where we discuss the films that foretold (in ways both large and small) the election of Donald J. Trump as President...
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