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Category: Movie Review

· by Thomas Stockel · May 18, 2017

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 reflected America’s love affair with pilots.…

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· by Thomas Stockel · May 4, 2017

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 largely a memory. But as…

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· by Jordon Davis · May 1, 2017

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. What are you going to do…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Apr 27, 2017

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 at the pitch …

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· by Jordon Davis · Apr 25, 2017

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 Adam Goodman, president of Paramount,…

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· by Thomas Stockel · Apr 19, 2017

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 it first got started,…

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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)

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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…