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Tagged: Keanu Reeves

· by Thomas Stockel · Apr 13, 2021

Johnny Mnemonic (1995), a recap (part 3 of 3)

Last time: Johnny picked up a bodyguard and a doctor, and while Pharmakom has hired a psycho hitman to collect his head, our hero has discovered the data in his skull could save millions of lives… if somebody can get…

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· by Thomas Stockel · Apr 6, 2021

Johnny Mnemonic (1995), a recap (part 2 of 3)

Last time: In the far flung year of… 2021, a guy named Johnny is a special courier who smuggles data via an implant in his head. Now he’s got too much data stuffed in his noggin and has to get…

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· by Thomas Stockel · Mar 30, 2021

Johnny Mnemonic (1995), a recap (part 1 of 3)

You would be hard-pressed to find a celebrity more beloved than Keanu Reeves, and it’s not hard to figure out why, as he avoids controversy and doesn’t get involved in tawdry headline-grabbing feuds or affairs. He donates a lot of…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Aug 19, 2020

Hit or Bomb? Late-August/September 2020 movie predictions

Hello, movie predictions, my old friend. The last time we did this, in the bygone days of March 2020, we were looking forward to movies like The Hunt and The Quiet Place Part II and wondering how Mulan would do…

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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…

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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 Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Feb 2, 2017

Hit or Bomb? February 2017 movie predictions

Another new month is upon us, meaning it’s the time when I would normally go into a long-winded spiel about the kinds of movies you can expect over the next few weeks, but I think we all know the drill:…

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· by Steven Birkner · Jul 18, 2016

The Matrix, Revisited: 50% of a great trilogy

“...By which I mean the greatness rests in the first one and half of Reloaded. Matrix: Revolutions contains 0% greatness, 40% stupidity, and 60% boredom.”

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· by Rob Kirchgassner · Aug 27, 2015

Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)

“This film has an even more misleading title than Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan.”

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· by Chelsey McQuitty · Oct 22, 2014

Constantine (2005)

“It’s difficult enough for newbies to grasp exactly who Constantine is and what he does without throwing in all these other side characters and unnecessary plot twists.”

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· by Rick Lewis · Aug 19, 2014

Tuesday in the blurbs

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Jul 22, 2013

A Scanner Darkly (2006)

“Compared to most adaptations of the works of legendary sci-fi author Philip K. Dick (Total Recall, Blade Runner, Next, to name just a few), the animated film A Scanner Darkly is extremely faithful to its source material. But that’s not necessarily a good thing.”

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· by Unusual Suspect · Sep 2, 2012

VIDEO: The Matrix (1999)

Keanu Reeves is a hacker who learns he's living inside a virtual reality simulation, and joins in a rebellion against his machine overlords in The Matrix, which gives the Suspect a total nerd-gasm. Watch as he shows his admiration for this kick-ass sci-fi action classic in his usual way: by ridiculing the shit out of it!