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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…

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· by Rob Kirchgassner · Jan 17, 2019

5 things Blade Runner got right and wrong about 2019

On New Year’s Day 2001, I saw an article in my local newspaper comparing the world as it was then with the world that was presented in Stanley Kubrick’s classic film 2001: A Space Odyssey. With this in mind,…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Jan 15, 2019

Franchise Evolution: The Unbreakable Trilogy, part 2: Split (2016)

Previously in the Unbreakable Trilogy: Despite mediocre reviews, 2000’s Unbreakable was a pretty sizable hit for M. Night Shyamalan, who then went on to experience years of diminishing critical and commercial returns culminating in bombs like Lady in the Water…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Jan 14, 2019

Franchise Evolution: The Unbreakable Trilogy, part 1: Unbreakable (2000)

Lately, a lot of film critics and film fans have been revisiting Unbreakable, M. Night Shyamalan’s deconstructionist take on superhero mythology, mostly thanks to a mid-credits scene in Shyamalan’s 2016 thriller Split that revealed it was secretly a backdoor…

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· by Steven Birkner · Jan 11, 2019

Comedy Meets Horror: When blending genres works

It seems incongruous at first glance to bring together the genres of comedy and horror, and to have this recipe be a success. The blending of the two genres can go very much awry if the execution isn’t done in…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Jan 8, 2019

Warcraft (2016): a recap (part 7 of 7)

Previously on Warcraft: The hell, guy? You just started reading here? What gives? The demon’s death causes an explosion of Fel magic that radiates from the top of Medivh’s penthouse and expands, denuding trees for miles around. Khadgar and…

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

Hit or Bomb? January 2019 movie predictions

It’s January, Hollywood’s usual dumping ground for lackluster movies, and this year might be the Januariest January in recent memory. Despite a paltry slate consisting mostly of films you can’t believe didn’t go straight to streaming, our box office gurus…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Dec 31, 2018

Warcraft (2016): a recap (part 6 of 7)

Last time on Warcraft: The relentlessly plot-driven narrative continues to toss our hapless characters around like mice in a dryer. Durotan’s tenure as a clan leader has come to a dramatic end, Draka’s on the run with their baby,…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Dec 27, 2018

The Great Wall (2016)

Anyone who follows the movie business nowadays is starkly aware that the Chinese box office now accounts for a disproportionate share of Hollywood blockbuster profits. This is why audiences of late have seen unprecedented levels of pandering to China in…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Dec 20, 2018

Holiday Movie Duel: Home Alone vs. Dial Code Santa Claus

I usually try to keep a pretty level playing field here on Movie Duels. If I tried to compare Transformers to Transmorphers, it probably wouldn’t be very interesting, at least not in the way I intended it. My…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Dec 17, 2018

Warcraft (2016), a recap (part 5 of 7)

Previously on Warcraft: The orcs were almost done with Gul’dan’s dimensional gate, which if successful, will doom Azeroth to a full-scale orc invasion. Token Good Orc Durotan met with the humans to hammer out a little somethin’-or-other to their…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Dec 10, 2018

Warcraft (2016), a recap (part 4 of 7)

Our story begins in the mid-1960s, when a musician from South London named David Jones decided to change his last name to avoid confusion with the then-famous Monkee Davy Jones. Taking the mispronounced surname of an American frontiersman as his…

Category: Movies

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

5 things Blade Runner got right and wrong about 2019

Franchise Evolution: The Unbreakable Trilogy, part 2: Split (2016)

Franchise Evolution: The Unbreakable Trilogy, part 1: Unbreakable (2000)

Comedy Meets Horror: When blending genres works

Warcraft (2016): a recap (part 7 of 7)

Hit or Bomb? January 2019 movie predictions

Warcraft (2016): a recap (part 6 of 7)

The Great Wall (2016)

Holiday Movie Duel: Home Alone vs. Dial Code Santa Claus

Warcraft (2016), a recap (part 5 of 7)

Warcraft (2016), a recap (part 4 of 7)

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