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COLLATERAL VS. DIE HARD What a perfect matchup. Both slick action thrillers about an ordinary man forced into an extraordinary situation. Michael Mann is the brilliant director at the helm of Collateral and, while it is not as widely renowned as Heat, it could be argued that this is his most personal movie. When…
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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. You know what you should do? Get caught up on the movies of 2013. It’s what I spend every waking hour of my life doing. Are you better than me? That’s what I…
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POPFILTER VS. THE END OF THE YEAR There are two facts about film critics — critics of all pop culture, really — particularly around this time of year: 1) They force themselves to make a top ten list, even though they bitch about it the entire time, and find it terribly arbitrary. 2) …
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AVATAR VS. SPIDER-MAN 3 Nobody wins in this fight, let’s just make that clear. This is more to determine which overly effects driven, poorly written film works better than the other. First we have Avatar, the long awaited special effects bukkake that James Cameron spewed all over our faces in 2009. Then we have a…
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PITCH PERFECT *** (out of ****) Here’s what we know: Pitch Perfect, impossible not to call Glee: The Movie, is about the four a capella teams at Barden University, a school that treats a capella groups more seriously than any school should (maybe the fictional front office of the school had also seen Glee,…
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OFFICE SPACE VS. AMERICAN HISTORY X Two formidable opponents for wildly different reasons, and for no earthly reason would there ever be a comparison of the two, except right here, right now. Office Space is an instant classic, arguably the funniest movie about the tedium of existence ever made. It is the story of…
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SUCK MY DISC QUICK HIT HOPE SPRINGS **1/2 (out of ****) Hope Springs is one of those movies where you can watch the preview, close your eyes, imagine what happens in the movie, and be 100% right. From the twists of the story to the decisions made by the director, it offers almost nothing…
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QUICK HIT THE DARK KNIGHT RISES Is this going to go down as the most polarizing movie of the year? It might be, with Cloud Atlas barely registering on the radar, and without a Michael Moore movie. The feeling I got when I heard anybody talking about this movie was that their love or hate…
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KUNG FU PANDA VS. BACK TO THE FUTURE PART III It’s hard to remember a time in this country where Kung Fu Panda wasn’t one of the most highly regarded films, and pandas, of all time. It looked stupid at first, despite its panda-iness, but we all went anyway, and we fucking loved it.…
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The Clueless Drinking Game Clueless more or less shaped the kind of person I wanted to be when I was 10. You pee-standing-up types have your Spiderman’s and Bugs Bunny, I had Cher. As my tribute to this wonderful movie, for your next Thirst Games drinking party (I KNOW that’s a thing), I submit…
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