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Category: Movie Review

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· by Daniel Dockery · Apr 14, 2017

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.

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· by Thomas Ricard · Apr 12, 2017

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 President of the United States. …

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· by Thomas Stockel · Apr 6, 2017

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 selling rides in their aircraft…

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· by Thomas Stockel · Mar 22, 2017

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 skies with a rocket strapped to…

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· by Susan Velazquez · Mar 14, 2017

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.

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· by Tyler Peterson · Mar 13, 2017

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 President of the United States. …

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· by Michael A. Novelli · Mar 11, 2017

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, baby!…

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· by Daniel Dockery · Mar 2, 2017

Bad Superhero Movie Showdown 2003: Hulk vs. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

What’s worse: bored confusion or pure nothingness?

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· by Jonathan Campbell · Feb 20, 2017

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 the United States. (Read …

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· by Daniel Dockery · Feb 15, 2017

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 tone of Batman Forever had…

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· by Michael A. Novelli · Feb 13, 2017

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 of the United States. …

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· by David Rose · Feb 2, 2017

VIDEO: Groundhog Day (1993)

In this episode, David revisits one of his favorite comedies of all time, Groundhog Day starring Bill Murray!

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· by Tyler Peterson · Feb 1, 2017

Movies that Predicted Trump: The Candidate (1972)

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 the United States. …

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· by Rick Lewis · Jan 31, 2017

Bad First Drafts: Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)

Bruce, did you know Clark is also a brooding, violent momma’s boy who enjoys growling vague platitudes in the rain?

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· by Rick Lewis · Jan 30, 2017

Why Batman v Superman never even had a chance to be good

There was a time when a mega-expensive turd like Batman v Superman would have been soul-crushing for comic book fans. Back then, superhero movies were rare and wondrous things. When one sucked, it killed that character’s chance at another big…

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· by Thomas Ricard · Jan 26, 2017

Passengers (2016): Creepy manipulation as a love story

MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD… 2016 sure was a year full of unpleasant surprises, huh? If you recall our December box-office predictions, I along with four of my fellow Agony Booth film reviewers predicted that Passengers would be a box-office hit. Because,…

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· by Steven Birkner · Jan 19, 2017

Rogue One: A mediocre EU novel on the big screen

While watching Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, I noticed that I was feeling something that I was unaccustomed to experiencing while watching a Star Wars movie. That feeling was boredom, which is an understandably unusual reaction to movies famous for space battles, blaster shootouts, and lightsaber duels.

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· by Cecil Trachenburg · Jan 16, 2017

VIDEO: The Stuff (1985)

Cecil investigates the story behind the horror comedy The Stuff. Enough is never enough!

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· by Thomas Ricard · Jan 10, 2017

Movies that Predicted Trump: All the King’s Men (1949)

History time, kids! Once upon a time, in a magical land of wealth and opportunity commonly known as the US of A lived a humble country lawyer named Huey P. Long. The nation had just emerged as one of the victors of a bloody World War and was going through an exciting period of technological progress and prosperity, blissfully unaware of the looming Wall Street crash and the ensuing Great Depression.

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· by Thomas Stockel · Jan 4, 2017

Zero Effect (1998): a pre-Sherlockian masterpiece

I was left with the realization that beyond all the “clever” dialogue and manic pace, Sherlock simply is not as good as people think. In fact, Zero Effect did it better in every way.