Tag Archives: #ghostbusters

The most important films of 2016

Annual top 10 lists are boring and dumb and arbitrary and full of movies nobody’s ever heard of. A big goal of this site is to try and extrapolate the future of movies, so, instead of talking about the year’s … Continue reading

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Entropy on Labor Day — Davids rule the summer, Goliaths crash and burn

Labor Day weekend 2016 was bad. If you discount last summer’s holiday weekend that saw War Room take the weekend crown, you have to go all the way back to 2005 to find a Labor Day weekend that did worse than this … Continue reading

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Ben-Hur doesn’t go big, so just stay home

Rhiannon Saegert @missmusetta Ben-Hur is a frustrating sit. It didn’t have to be, but the movie makes an infuriating habit of taking whatever interesting ideas it has and running them directly into the ground like an unconvincing CGI chariot. The … Continue reading

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Nerve is the movie you wanted Ghostbusters to be

You want to watch a movie because it has ladies in it? You want to watch any movie at all? Here you go! This is the movie for you. Nerve follows wallflower Vee Delmonico (Emma Roberts) — Vee short for Venus, … Continue reading

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When $46 million is not nearly enough

Watching the box office closely, I’ve developed a pet theory that a major studio is going to go under in the next few years. Ticket sales have been declining steadily since 2002, with 2014 actually being the worst year in … Continue reading

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