Category: Movie Recap

· by Rob Kirchgassner · Aug 21, 2018

Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)

Robert Zemeckis’s hit comedy Who Framed Roger Rabbit turns 30 this year. While it was a Disney production, this film was a hit in large part because it gave people the once-in-a-lifetime chance to see classic cartoon characters such as…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Jul 30, 2018

Suicide Squad (2016): a recap (part 9 of 9)

Well, we got through Suicide Squad. If you just started reading this recap here, I’ll let Superman sum the movie up for you: But despite Suicide Squad’s banal ugliness, its addled editing, its incoherent characterizations, its risible villain, and its…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Jul 16, 2018

Suicide Squad (2016): a recap (part 8 of 9)

A while ago on Suicide Squad: The most useful member of the team found his cojones, only to sacrifice them (and everything else) to kill Enchantress’s brother “Chester”, whose real name I never heard even once. But Enchantress’s machine…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Jul 9, 2018

Suicide Squad (2016): a recap (part 7 of 9)

Antecedently on Suicide Squad: The chips are down for our plucky band of felons. Waller’s been kidnapped and mind-probed. Joker’s escape attempt went awry; he got in a helicopter crash *snicker* and he’s *snort* totally…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Jul 3, 2018

Suicide Squad (2016): a recap (part 6 of 9)

Heretofore on Suicide Squad: Our titular Squad began their first big assignment: to travel to Gotham Central Star National Fawcett Coast Keystone Gorilla Midway City and rescue an unidentified person from a brother/sister duo of omnipotent wizards who are wrecking…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Jun 25, 2018

Suicide Squad (2016): a recap (part 5 of 9)

Erstwhile on Suicide Squad: Amanda Waller’s cunning plan to engineer a romance between an ultra-powerful witch and the single person guarding her somehow ran into problems. Enchantress slipped her leash and went rogue, releasing her brother from his Pier…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Jun 18, 2018

Suicide Squad (2016): a recap (part 4 of 9)

Precedingly on Suicide Squad: Waller’s getting the band together. Harley Quinn’s pimp is coming to her rescue. Enchantress is off the leash and up to no good. Enchantress teleports by wrapping her cloud of bodily funk around her. Her…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Jun 11, 2018

Suicide Squad (2016): a recap (part 3 of 9)

Previously on Suicide Squad: Government stooge (and three-time Detective Wyms Cosplay Contest runner-up) Amanda Waller wanted to protect America from a hypothetical terrorist threat by a Superman-type figure. To that end, she assembled a team of lame-o supervillains with…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Jun 4, 2018

Suicide Squad (2016): a recap (part 2 of 9)

Last time on Suicide Squad: The Wall got an idea. An awful idea. The Wall got a wonderful, awful idea. She’s smiling because, with Superman dead, it’s the perfect time to pitch this wonderful, awful idea to her fellow…

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· by Tyler Peterson · May 29, 2018

Suicide Squad (2016): a recap (part 1 of 9)

The DC Expanded Universe: four cursed words if ever there were any. The twelve hours that comprise the DCEU represent such a pathetically inept wall-to-wall pooch-screw that dunking on the franchise at this point seems almost mean, like laughing at…

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· by Rob Kirchgassner · May 9, 2018

Tron (1982), a recap (part 6 of 6)

Before I get into the impact Tron has had on pop culture in the decades since its release, let’s discuss how the movie itself stands up. Video game-based movies are usually received with not much enthusiasm by most audiences. The…

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· by Rob Kirchgassner · Apr 26, 2018

Tron (1982), a recap (part 5 of 6)

Previously on Tron: Flynn, Tron, and Ram escaped the Game Grid, but were later separated when Sark’s tanks blew up their lightcycles, which eventually killed Ram. But Tron pressed onward with his girlfriend Yori, while Flynn tried to do…

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· by Rob Kirchgassner · Apr 10, 2018

Tron (1982), a recap (part 4 of 6)

Previously on Tron: Flynn discovered that he’d arrived at a place that is, essentially, Ready Player One before the Ernest Cline book (or the subsequent Spielberg film). He finally met the movie’s title character who, along with another program,…

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· by Rob Kirchgassner · Mar 27, 2018

Tron (1982), a recap (part 3 of 6)

Previously on Tron: The Dude was trying to hack into his former employer’s computer system to prove he was screwed over. But he ended up getting punked in the most electronic way possible. The good news is that there’s…

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· by Rob Kirchgassner · Mar 14, 2018

Tron (1982), a recap (part 2 of 6)

Previously on Tron: We learned that the computer world is becoming more and more advanced. A certain program that calls itself the Master Control Program pretty much dominates it. However, after it gets rid of a program that looks…

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· by Rob Kirchgassner · Mar 5, 2018

Tron (1982), a recap (part 1 of 6)

I’ve written articles about films where I’ve made a point to note other movies that were released in the same year. To me, this has been relevant because the 1980s was a pretty great decade when it came to science…

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· by Jordon Davis · Feb 12, 2018

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), a recap (part 8 of 8)

Previously: Who cares? The movie’s almost over! Indiana Jones has made it to the inner sanctum. His ex and his son have sort of helped. His old friend, Harold Oxley, found and deciphered the riddles of the crystal skull. A…

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· by Jordon Davis · Feb 1, 2018

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), a recap (part 7 of 8)

Previously: There was a big chase scene wherein nothing anybody did had any causal relationship with anything that came before. Anyway, our five heroes are sailing to an ancient alien city in a jeep. The adventurers get about thirty seconds…

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· by Jordon Davis · Jan 24, 2018

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), a recap (part 6 of 8)

Previously: Indiana Jones, Marion from the first movie, their son, a crystal skull, John Hurt, aliens, Russians, the Amazon, RPGs, and an amphibious jeep. Indy, Marion and Mutt all bail out of their truck into a WWII-era Ford GPA. It’s…

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· by Jordon Davis · Jan 15, 2018

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), a recap (part 5 of 8)

Previously: Dr. Spalko forced Indy to look at an alien skull, and this freaked him out a little bit. She threatened Jones, which he laughed at. So she threatened Mutt, which Mutt laughed at. So she brought out Marion Ravenwood.…

Category: Movie Recap

Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)

Suicide Squad (2016): a recap (part 9 of 9)

Suicide Squad (2016): a recap (part 8 of 9)

Suicide Squad (2016): a recap (part 7 of 9)

Suicide Squad (2016): a recap (part 6 of 9)

Suicide Squad (2016): a recap (part 5 of 9)

Suicide Squad (2016): a recap (part 4 of 9)

Suicide Squad (2016): a recap (part 3 of 9)

Suicide Squad (2016): a recap (part 2 of 9)

Suicide Squad (2016): a recap (part 1 of 9)

Tron (1982), a recap (part 6 of 6)

Tron (1982), a recap (part 5 of 6)

Tron (1982), a recap (part 4 of 6)

Tron (1982), a recap (part 3 of 6)

Tron (1982), a recap (part 2 of 6)

Tron (1982), a recap (part 1 of 6)

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), a recap (part 8 of 8)

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), a recap (part 7 of 8)

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), a recap (part 6 of 8)

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), a recap (part 5 of 8)

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