Movie of the Year: 2002 – Spider-Man

By Greg | November 9, 2022

Movie of the Year: 2002 Spider-Man The Taste Buds dip into some deep comic lore to talk about little-known 2002 property, Spider-Man! Put this one in the category of what was 2002 smoking? Some kid gets bitten by a radioactive spider, and we all know what happens next, right? He gets cancer and dies screaming,…

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Movie of the Year 2004-Spider-Man 2

By Greg | November 12, 2018

Movie of the Year 2004: Spider-Man 2 The Taste Buds review the 2004 movie Spider-Man 2! Join host Greg as he pits contestants Ryan and Mike against each other to see who is the Spider-Man 2 master and Greg’s number one best friend! The Taste Buds tackle everything about the movie, from how it fares as a Spider-Man story,…

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Am I Right Ladies? The Manic Pixie Dream Girls Must Be Stopped

By Robin Hardwick | May 28, 2012

In a 2005 review of the dreadful Elizabethtown, Nathan Rabin coined the term “Manic Pixie Dream Girl”, and hence, there was a beautiful succint term to describe so many cliches. Rabin describes the MPDG as existing “solely in the fevered imaginations of sensitive writer-directors to teach broodingly soulful young men to embrace life and its…

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