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‘Meg’ measures up to sharks’ giant film legacy
8/10 I was perfectly fine skipping The Meg. Every five years or so, some shark movie comes along to pick the cartilage of Jaws, and I didn’t think this one would be anything special. But then it made a ton … Continue reading
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Tagged #jaws, #the exorcist, disaster movie, It, Jason Statham, Rainn Wilson, The Meg
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Eat shit, Disney
Last week, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced big changes for upcoming ceremonies at the behest of the Disney-ABC Television Group that owns the awards ceremony broadcast rights through 2028. Among other changes meant to reduce runtime … Continue reading
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Tagged #apocalypse now, #jaws, #star wars, #the dark knight, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Best Picture, Best Popular Film, Chinatown, Eat Shit Disney, La La Land, Moonlight, Schindler's List, Shape of Water, The Deer Hunter, The Godfather, The King's Speech, Toy Story 3
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40 years of ‘Star Wars’
Forty years ago today, 20th Century Fox dropped Star Wars off into the 32 theaters they could convince to screen it. It was a Wednesday. The studio was worried the movie would be swallowed by other summer releases, so they … Continue reading
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Tagged #20th Century Fox, #Disney, #george lucas, #jaws, #jurassic park, #return of the jedi, #star wars, #the empire strikes back, #the force awakens, Attack of the Clones, ET, Heir to the Empire, Revenge of the Sith, rogue one, The Last Jedi, The Other Side of Midnight, The Phantom Menace, You think God is in control here?
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Lights Out is an instant classic in every sense of the phrase
Lights Out is a stellar horror film that walks the line between terrifying and fun, but before that, it’s a happy ending for a genius short. After a pulse-pounding introduction in which a shadowy woman kills Paul (Billy Burke), Lights Out follows … Continue reading
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Tagged #a nightmare on elm street, #jaws, #pixels, #teresa palmer, Billy Burke, Can't run from your problems, David F. Sandberg, Depression, Gabriel Bateman, Horror tropes, Lights Out, Lights Out is a standard but perfectly executed horror movie, Lights Out is an instant classic, Lights Out is one of the best representations of depression in modern media, Maria Bello, Run from your problems, Toxic friends
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Deep horror, shallow exploitation
Looking up The Shallows, you notice a few things — it stars Blake Lively, who can’t act, it’s directed by Juame Collet-Serra, who only directs awful Liam Neeson vehicles that aren’t even the famous ones, and it’s sitting at a respectable 75 … Continue reading
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