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· by Tyler Peterson · Oct 8, 2018

The Official Drinking Game of the New Picard Series

In an unprecedented step for the Star Trek franchise, it’s been announced that Sir Patrick Stewart will trek through the stars once again in a new series about the further adventures of Captain Jean-Luc Picard. Picard was a natural choice…

Movies / Text

· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Oct 4, 2018

Hit or Bomb? October 2018 movie predictions

It’s October, which means Halloween is upon us and movie fans get to witness true horror: namely, Sony trying to make its own Marvel movie. It’s also time for us here at the Agony Booth to once again make knee-jerk…

Movie Recap / Movies / Text

· by Jordon Davis · Oct 1, 2018

Hot Bot (2016), a recap (part 1 of 8)

Synopsis: Imagine the dumbest idea you’ve ever had in the stupidest dream of your entire life, and then imagine a community center for at-risk 7th graders making a film about it. You have now imagined a better movie than Hot …

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· by Rob Kirchgassner · Sep 24, 2018

You Can’t Do That on Television (1979-1990)

You Can’t Do That on Television is a Canadian series which initially aired on the CTV station in Ottawa in 1979. Just two years later, it began broadcasting on American TV via the cable network Nickelodeon. Cable TV itself was…

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· by Thomas Ricard · Sep 20, 2018

The Happytime Murders (2018)

In 1988, Who Framed Roger Rabbit didn’t just revolutionize animation with its seamless insertion of wacky cartoon animation into a majority of its live-action shots; it subtly satirized Hollywood’s own history through a hard-boiled noir plot with a novel premise:…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Sep 17, 2018

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)

Luc Besson is not a man who inspires a lot of moderate opinions. He is not a moderate man. He’s been referred to as the most American French filmmaker, a title he earned through a characteristically French kind of pigheadedness.…

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· by Rob Kirchgassner · Sep 10, 2018

Xena: Warrior Princess “Callisto”

I’ve noted before that, despite being a spin-off of another show, Xena: Warrior Princess didn’t take long to become the syndicated ratings champion of the 1990s as Star Trek: The Next Generation had been before it. There were many reasons…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Sep 6, 2018

Ready Player One (2018)

When Ready Player One came out back in April, I went on a bit of a rant in that month’s box office predictions about how much I hated the novel. I admit this might make me a less than ideal…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Sep 4, 2018

Hit or Bomb? September 2018 movie predictions

It’s another month, and it’s time once again for us to make knee-jerk assessments about which upcoming releases will be HITs and which will BOMB based solely on watching the trailers. Our box office gurus this time around are …

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· by Tyler Peterson · Aug 23, 2018

Movie Duel: The Thirteenth Floor vs. eXistenZ

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 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 Rob Kirchgassner · Aug 7, 2018

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman: The 5-episode wedding arc from hell

As I noted in my previous recap, the third season of Lois & Clark began promisingly by surprising the viewers in the best possible way. In this case, it was Lois responding to Clark’s marriage proposal by revealing that she…

Movies / Text

· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Aug 2, 2018

Hit or Bomb? August 2018 movie predictions

It’s a new month, meaning it’s time once again for us to make knee-jerk assessments about which upcoming releases will be HITs and which will BOMB based solely on watching the trailers. Our box office gurus this time around…

Movie Recap / Movies / Text

· 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 Rob Kirchgassner · Jul 26, 2018

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman "We Have a Lot to Talk About"

By the end of its second season, Lois & Clark was becoming more of a ratings hit. One reason for this was that the title characters were starting to become more romantic with each other by this point. The only…

Movie Review / Movies / Text

· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Jul 25, 2018

Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018)

Maze Runner: The Death Cure is the third and final installment in the Maze Runner trilogy based on the young adult novels by John Dashner. The movie was delayed for a year after star Dylan O’Brien got seriously injured in…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Jul 19, 2018

Geostorm (2017)

At the start of 2017’s Geostorm, a young girl’s narration informs us that in the year 2019, a scant six months from now, the planet will be devastated by a series of catastrophic weather events: In New York, the…

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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 Rob Kirchgassner · Jul 13, 2018

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman “Sex, Lies, and Videotape”

With Harvey Weinstein’s career still in ruins and the #MeToo movement now being targeted by Donald Trump (although I guess that was inevitable), I felt prompted to look at an interesting episode from Lois & Clark‘s fourth and final…

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· by Jordon Davis · Jul 11, 2018

Superheroes, ranked (by singing ability)

Superheroes: they’re great. But which one is the best? Is it Captain Marvel, the mightiest Avenger? Or maybe Lady Sif, the character that they took a great deal of time to establish and then just abandoned completely in favor of…

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The Official Drinking Game of the New Picard Series

Hit or Bomb? October 2018 movie predictions

Hot Bot (2016), a recap (part 1 of 8)

You Can’t Do That on Television (1979-1990)

The Happytime Murders (2018)

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)

Xena: Warrior Princess “Callisto”

Ready Player One (2018)

Hit or Bomb? September 2018 movie predictions

Movie Duel: The Thirteenth Floor vs. eXistenZ

Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman: The 5-episode wedding arc from hell

Hit or Bomb? August 2018 movie predictions

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

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman "We Have a Lot to Talk About"

Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018)

Geostorm (2017)

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

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman “Sex, Lies, and Videotape”

Superheroes, ranked (by singing ability)

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