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‘First Purge’ is the first great purge movie
9/10 The Purge movies continue to baffle me with cultural staying power that outsizes their box office numbers. What started as a cut-rate home invasion movie with an elaborate premise has captured the American imagination, fitting like a glove onto … Continue reading
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Tagged blaxploitation, Ethan Hawke, Gerald McMurray, James DeMonaco, The First Purge, The Purge
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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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Tagged #alice in wonderland, #anna kendrick, #apocalypse, #batman v superman, #days of future past, #deadpool, #disney pixar, #ghostbusters, #johnny depp, #pete's dragon, #pixels, #snow white and the huntsman, #sony, #star trek, #star trek beyond, #star trek into darkness, #star wars, #suicide squad, #the witch, #tim burton, #warcraft, #X-Men, alice through the looking glass, Bad Moms, Beauty and the Beast, Ben-Hur, cannibalism, Central Intelligence, CGI is bad, China loves WoW, Collision Course, Don't Breathe, Election Year, finding dory, ha ha ha ha Mila Kunis, Harry Potter, Hollywood is dumb, Ice Age, Independence Day, Jason Bourne, Kubo and the Two Strings, Laika, Legend of Tarzan what were they thinking, maleficent, me before you, Me Before You genuinely advocates suicide, Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, Mila Kunis, Movie budgets are too damn high, Nerve, Nerve is everything you've ever wanted in a hollywood movie, Nicholas Sparks, now you see me 2, out of the shadows, Resurgence, Sausage Party, Secret Life of Pets, Seth Rogen, Sexism and feminism be damned, Teenage mutant ninja turtles, the BFG, The Conjuring 2, The Last Stand, the lobster, the neon demon, The Purge, The Shallows, There is absolutely no reason to make a movie for more than $120 million, Transformers 4, War Dogs
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INDEPENDENCE DAY EXTRAVAGANZA: Everything you need to know about the movies that couldn’t beat a three-week old cartoon about a talking fish
It’s actually nowhere near as bad as we first thought. 2016 has been bad enough to finally cause Hollywood to re-examine the sequel-based business model, but this is the single weekend everyone will be pointing to. The biggest weekend … Continue reading
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Tagged #christoph waltz, #frank grillo, #mark rylance, #samuel l jackson, #steven spielberg, Alexander Skarsgard, Anarchy, CGI sucks, David Yates, Doom, Election Year, finding dory, green screen sucks, Harry Potter, Hollywood sequelitis, It's not that bad, July 4 weekend, kidnapping, Legend of Tarzan surprisingly successful, Motion-capture sucks, Roald Dahl, Tarzan continuity errors, Tarzan's action doesn't work, the BFG, The BFG is an example of Stockholm Syndrome, the big fucking gun, The Legend of Tarzan, The Purge, Warner Bros can't buy a win
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