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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 Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith VS Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl It’s the young adult Disney battle: A film that inspired a ride, and a ride…
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PopFilter Vs. Our Childhood In which we reminisce about childhood entertainment, then go back and watch it and re-assess. TIM APPELBAUM VS HOOK As a child, I would return home from school, eat a snack, and watch Freakazoid, Animaniacs, and Hook. This wasn’t a fair-weather routine; the VHS tape eventually broke. I would like to think it…
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Flickchart’s Greatest Battles In which we pit two movies together using flickchart.com, debating their merits or lack thereof. ROUND ONE COMMANDO VS MONSTER’S BALL The year was 2001. Someone was probably president, some hit song was probably number one on the radio, and we as a nation were still giving Monster’s Ball a standing…
Read MorePOP FILTER VS. THE CLASSICS
POP FILTER VS THE CLASSICS of COMEDY MY MAN GODFREY Other than the hilarious poster, nothing about this movie seems like a comedy at first. It takes place during the Depression, which is a weirdly comedy free period, and was made during that SAME Depression, which seems just a little too…depressing.And…
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Flickchart’s Greatest Battles In which we pit two movies together using flickchart.com, debating their merits or lack thereof. ROUND ONE TOMMY BOY VS LOVE, ACTUALLY There’s something about Love Actually that makes it very watchable, until you think about it for more than ten seconds. Tommy Boy, however, actually gets better when you think…
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Blue Jasmine This year’s submission of Woody Allen’s annual railing against wealthy pseudointellectuals is “Blue Jasmineâ€, the story of a woman recently single, recently broke, and recently nervously broken-down. The titular Jasmine (Cate Blanchett) moves to San Francisco to live with her adopted sister to recover from the collapse of her life. There, she…
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Flickchart’s Greatest Battles In which we pit two movies together using flickchart.com, debating their merits or lack thereof. HOT FUZZ VS 28 DAYS LATER How do you compare and contrast a brilliant comedy with probably the best apocalyptic zombie movie ever? That’s like asking, “Which is better? Homemade macaroni and cheese, or red velvet cake…
Read MorePOP FILTER VS. THE CLASSICS
POP FILTER VS THE CLASSICS OF 1979 DAYS OF HEAVEN There are a lot of reasons, at least on paper, that I should hate Terence Malick. Hate is probably a strong word. There’s a lot of reasons why sitting down to watch one of his movies — the few that there are — scares me.…
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Flickchart’s Greatest Battles In which we pit two movies together using flickchart.com, debating their merits or lack thereof. WIZARD OF OZ VS O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? I have to admit, this pairing didn’t just force me to think for a minute–I agonized over it. Some movies are hard to pit against each other…
Read MoreWake n Bake — Summer Music Mockumentary Festival pt. 4
WAKE N BAKE In which Erin informs you of the best movies to blaze to Well friends, all things must come to an end, and our Wake n Bake Summer Music Mockumentary Festival is no exception. (Technically, summer lasts until the end of September, but I thought it would be shitty to remind people of…
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