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HAYWIRE *** (out of ****) In this day and age, what with the economy and the internet filled with 99 percenters and streaming videotape, it’s getting harder and harder for entertainers to earn Lifetime Passes. When you give someone a Lifetime Pass, that doesn’t mean that you will like everything they do for the…
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MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: GHOST PROTOCOL *** (out of ****) I literally looked up the word “sequel†on dictionary.com before I started writing this article. I would never do something as cliché as begin a piece of writing with a definition, but I’m not sure we’re using the term “sequel†correctly. Back to the Future, Part…
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WAR HORSE **1/2 (out of ****) Arguing about Steven Spielberg, either his recent movies or his entire oeuvre, has become something of a national past time for pop culture nerds. His influence on how the industry works today is inarguable, but the quality of his films is, and probably always will…
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TREND THIS! In which Mike and Ryan try to whore themselves out to get readers to the site. RH: Hey, Mike. What do you want to talk about?MG: Oh I don’t know- whatever the kids are into these days… pogs? RH: I have an idea. Let’s figure out what other people are talking about, and…
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THE POP FILTER TOP TEN META MOVIES 10. AIRPLANE Aside from being perhaps the best comedy of all time, Airplane! is a “meta” masterpiece. A nun, reading an actual ‘Boys Life’ magazine is followed by a boy reading a fictional ‘Nuns Life’ magazine. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a basketball player in real life, plays the co-pilot, who…
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THE MUPPETS *** (out of ****) There are thousands of reasons that I’m not yet a real critic. One of them is that critics can’t afford the luxury of being fans of anything. If they love David Fincher, they have to walk into the newest Fincher movie with the same excitement that they do…
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The DVD, Blu Ray, and TVD releases for February 21, 2012 The Adventures of Tinin ***1/2 (out of ****) When I first saw a trailer for The Adventures of Tintin I couldn’t help but think to myself “Oh no, another creepy looking Polar Express movie.†Then I never thought about it again, until one day…
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JACK AND JILL The greatest movie of all time finally comes to DVD. Check out Daniel Tompkins’ review of the theatrical version, and pretend he wrote it for the DVD version. https://popfilter.co/2011/11/bottom-feeders-jack-jill/ THE SKIN I LIVE IN *** (out of ****) The second greatest movie of all time finally comes to DVD. Coincidentally, the podcast…
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In which one friend, one frenemy, and one full on enemy discuss whatever the hell they want. Luckily, they want to talk about the new Bruce Springsteen album, the hit(ish) new TV show Smash, and the new Pedro Almodovar movie The Skin I Live In. Eat it. Live it. Love it. Eat it. Again.
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The DVD, Blu Ray, and TVD releases for February 21, 2012 JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN ** (out of ****) As a film school student I am constantly watching and assigned to watch “deep†films. Also, black and white films. Films before the advent of sound. Films that don’t come in my language and force me to…
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