Daniel Tompkins
FLICKCHART’S GREATEST BATTLES
Flickchart’s Greatest Battles In which we pit two movies together using flickchart.com, debating their merits or lack thereof. ROUND ONE TROY VS CATCH ME IF YOU CAN Troy and Catch Me if You Can, the first is based on one of the greatest stories of all time. The other features America’s sweetheart Tom…
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HEY, YOU KNOW WHAT YOU SHOULD DO? In which we tell you about awesome things that you must look into and enjoy. Solve All 55 Lego Puzzles! In celebration of its 55th birthday the good people at Lego have commissioned 55 visual puzzles from the creative agency Brad. The minimalist posters are each meant to…
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Oz the Great and Powerful The Wizard of Oz has been re-made, sequel-ed, prequel-ed, adapted, rebooted, re-imagined and in general just fucked with so often that it’s hard to tell exactly how much it being done one more time matters. Almost none of the 500 or so Oz rip-offs are anywhere near the original in…
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Snitch In Snitch, Dwayne Johnson plays John Matthews, the owner of a construction company who goes to extraordinary lengths to save his son from an unsympathetic and overly pragmatic legal system. He fights his way through mounds of red tape and dozens of gangsters whose dialogue was clearly written by a white person but at…
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A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD As each Die Hard movie marches closer and closer to Fast and Furious territory, the question we have to ask ourselves is “Are we ok with John McClain becoming a big, dumb, American James Bond?†There’s something about the tightly packaged, predictably trope-y action films that the James Bond…
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Weekend Muvie Revue Looper Here at Yourpopfilter.com we spend a pretty solid chunk of our time talking about Chris Nolan. We spend even more talking about M Night Shyamalan for some reason and I personally can never, ever shut the fuck about Darren Aaronovsky. You probably have three very different opinions about those three very…
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Weekend Muvie Revue Dredd 3D When you set out to make an action movie you’re eventually going to have to decide whether the action is there to propel your plot forward or the plot and characters are just a there as a framework you can stuff as much action as possible into. Or you can…
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Weekend Muvie Revue Lawless How soon is too soon to call a director Iconic? And how soon after that can I explain that iconic doesn’t mean great? The answers are ‘after only three movies’ and ‘immediately’. John Hillcoat has only directed three films, as long as your definition of film is the same as mine –…
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Weekend Muvie Revue The Expendables 2 Action movies are by necessity the most masturbatory of any genre. Their entire purpose is to allow you to indulge in violence. The goal isn’t to teach you a lesson about violence and when it is or isn’t necessary, the goal is to show you how awesome it is. …
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Weekend Muvie Revue The Campaign The first, most base goal of any genre is escapism. They can rise above it or even cut it out entirely but they all start there. Before you get Dune, you get Captain Strong Fucks Aliens All Day. Before you get Dr Strangelove you get Nerdy Kid Becomes Popular and the…
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