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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · May 8, 2019

Hit or Bomb? May 2019 movie predictions

Even though it’s a rare month with absolutely no comic book superheroes in sight, we’ve still got a plenty of potential blockbusters to evaluate as we decide which will be HITs and which will BOMB based solely on the…

· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · May 2, 2019

Green Lantern (2011), a recap (part 2 of 9)

Previously: An omniscient voiceover gave us a crash course on the planet Oa, the Green Lantern Corps, Sinestro, Abin Sur, and the Guardians of the Whole Damn Universe. Meanwhile, a big yellow roaring cloud named Parallax managed to free itself from a what’s-lower-than-minimum security prison on Ryut...

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Apr 25, 2019

Green Lantern (2011), a recap (part 1 of 9)

The list of cancelled and aborted live-action movie adaptations of DC superheroes is a lengthy one, and the attempts at bringing Green Lantern to the big screen surely make up a big chunk of that list. Warner Brothers/DC considered making a Green Lantern movie as early as the mid-1990s, according to...

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· by Rob Kirchgassner · Apr 17, 2019

Let There Be Light (2017), Kevin Sorbo and Sean Hannity’s idea of a good movie

Easter is this week, and the movies that come to mind for many during this holiday are (naturally) It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown as well as religious-based ones like The Robe, The Ten Commandments, and Ben-Hur.…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Apr 9, 2019

Three-Way Movie Duel: Vice Versa vs. Like Father Like Son vs. 18 Again!

Welcome to our first-ever Three-Way Movie Duel! For those unfamiliar with the Agony Booth’s Movie Duels series, this is where we look at films with strikingly similar premises that came out at nearly the same time, but up until…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Apr 3, 2019

Hit or Bomb? April 2019 movie predictions

So, anybody heard anything good about any upcoming movies lately? The word on the street is that there’s some kind of superhero thing coming out at the end of this month. Ah, who are we kidding? The next Avengers movie…

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· by Rob Kirchgassner · Apr 2, 2019

Pet Sematary (1989)

Because a new film version of Stephen King’s classic 1983 book Pet Sematary is due in cinemas in a few days, I decided to take a look at the film version, which hit theaters in 1989. There were already numerous…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Mar 27, 2019

Fantastic Four (2015), a recap (part 7 of 7)

Previously: Victor returned from Planet Zero, and three minutes later decided to have his revenge on the people who rescued him. He murdered scientists, soldiers, Harvey “Big League Chew” Allen, and Franklin Storm. Our team of heroes were powerless to prevent him from… killing everybody? Trying to rule the world? No, actually...

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· by Rob Kirchgassner · Mar 21, 2019

Eyes Wide Shut, 20 years later

It’s been twenty years since Stanley Kubrick put out his final movie, Eyes Wide Shut. This film made headlines in the months leading up to its July release date for many reasons. First of all, it was the first…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Mar 18, 2019

Fantastic Four (2015), a recap (part 6 of 7)

Previously: After an apparent year of absolutely nothing happening in the lives of our heroes, they all got put to work by the military, much to the dismay of Sue and her dad. Meanwhile, Reed was on the run in Central America, where despite his crafty brownface disguise, the government was able to track him down and use Ben to apprehend him.

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Mar 13, 2019

Fantastic Four (2015), a recap (part 5 of 7)

Previously: Four morons went to an alternate dimension but only three came back. The survivors found themselves changed in various disturbing ways, and immediately got recruited by the government to become freakish...

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· by Rob Kirchgassner · Mar 11, 2019

Battle of the Zombie Comedies: Shaun of the Dead vs. Night of the Living Dorks

As the decades have passed, there have been spoof movies in pretty much every genre imaginable, from police dramas (The Naked Gun) to teen comedies (Not Another Teen Movie). The legendary Mel Brooks alone has made…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Mar 6, 2019

Hit or Bomb? March 2019 movie predictions

After two solid months of “how in the hell did this not go direct to streaming?” releases, 2019 finally gets a few potentially huge blockbusters. No movie is a guaranteed success, of course, which is why we’re here to determine…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Mar 4, 2019

Fantastic Four (2015), a recap (part 4 of 7)

Previously: After a successful teleportation attempt involving a cartoon monkey, the best and brightest minds of the Baxter Institute (plus Ben Grimm) got drunk off a bottle of vanilla extract, and then decided on the spur of the moment to…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Feb 27, 2019

Fantastic Four (2015), a recap (part 3 of 7)

Previously: Reed Richards got to attend/work for the Baxter Institute, a internationally renowned think tank founded on the inventions of high school students. Reed was tasked with building a teleportation machine along with three other young antisocial malcontents...

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· by Rob Kirchgassner · Feb 21, 2019

Why The Last Jedi gives me (yes!) hope for Episode IX

As the Christmas release date for the next Star Wars movie approaches, and with filming now reportedly completed, the anticipation and the backlash that have both become synonymous with the franchise since the release of the prequel trilogy remain as…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Feb 19, 2019

Fantastic Four (2015), a recap (part 2 of 7)

Previously: Reed Richards and Ben Grimm were young kids who, despite Reed’s best efforts, grew up to be teenagers. Reed finally got someone to take notice of his teleportation machine, which turned out to actually be a portal into another dimension, because this is the version of the Fantastic Four where nobody goes into space or gets bombarded by cosmic rays....

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Feb 13, 2019

Fantastic Four (2015), a recap (part 1 of 7)

In 2015, 20th Century Fox achieved a remarkable feat: At a time when comic book movies and Marvel superheroes in particular were seen as a license to print money, they still managed to make a massive bomb out of their reboot of Marvel’s Fantastic Four. Even more remarkably...

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· by Rob Kirchgassner · Feb 6, 2019

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)

Like the Alien series, the first two entries in the Terminator series are embraced as classic movies. The 1984 original was a nerve-jolting thriller whose success is all the more remarkable when you consider that its writer-director, James Cameron, only…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Jan 31, 2019

Hit or Bomb? February 2019 movie predictions

It’s a new month, and this one isn’t quite as much of a dumping ground as the last one, but still not a whole lot better. Nevertheless, our box office gurus are going to persevere and again take the time…

Category: Movies

Hit or Bomb? May 2019 movie predictions

Green Lantern (2011), a recap (part 2 of 9)

Green Lantern (2011), a recap (part 1 of 9)

Let There Be Light (2017), Kevin Sorbo and Sean Hannity’s idea of a good movie

Three-Way Movie Duel: Vice Versa vs. Like Father Like Son vs. 18 Again!

Hit or Bomb? April 2019 movie predictions

Pet Sematary (1989)

Fantastic Four (2015), a recap (part 7 of 7)

Eyes Wide Shut, 20 years later

Fantastic Four (2015), a recap (part 6 of 7)

Fantastic Four (2015), a recap (part 5 of 7)

Battle of the Zombie Comedies: Shaun of the Dead vs. Night of the Living Dorks

Hit or Bomb? March 2019 movie predictions

Fantastic Four (2015), a recap (part 4 of 7)

Fantastic Four (2015), a recap (part 3 of 7)

Why The Last Jedi gives me (yes!) hope for Episode IX

Fantastic Four (2015), a recap (part 2 of 7)

Fantastic Four (2015), a recap (part 1 of 7)

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)

Hit or Bomb? February 2019 movie predictions

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