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Only official ‘Slender Man’ movie is the worst ‘Slender Man’ movie
1/10 And now to dissect Slender Man, the movie its own studio didn’t want you to see. In rural Massachusetts, four bored teenagers summon the Slender Man. They do this by watching a video on the Internet straight out of … Continue reading
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Tagged #deadpool, #sony, #the witch, It, Occulus, postmodernism, Slender Man, the babadook, The Ring
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‘Hereditary’ an audacious mixed bag
9/10 And now for Hereditary, this year’s “scariest movie ever made.” The film begins with the funeral of the Graham family matriarch, Ellen, after which her daughter Annie (Toni Collette) begins to see strange things around the house. The family soon … Continue reading
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Tagged #A24, #the witch, Alex Wolff, Hereditary, Milly Shapiro, Paranormal activity, the babadook, The Conjuring, Toni Collette
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‘The Last Key’ decent, dragged down by ‘Insidious’ hallmarks
4/10 You thought I’d forgotten about Insidious, didn’t you? No, we remember. Even if no one else- What?! It opened at almost $30 million? Guess January isn’t the dead zone it used to be. Insidious: The Last Key sees franchise … Continue reading
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Tagged #it follows, #the witch, gay narrative, Insidious, Lin Shayne, The Last Key
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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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Tagged #10 cloverfield lane, #batman v superman, #DC, #deadpool, #Disney, #ghostbusters, #hail caesar, #jared leto, #johnny depp, #jungle book, #margot robbie, #mcu, #pixar, #rotten tomatoes, #ryan reynolds, #sony, #star wars, #suicide squad, #the force awakens, #the witch, #warcraft, #warner bros., #zootopia, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Captain America, captain america: civil war, Chinese New Year, comic con 2015, Darth Vader made a pun, DCEU, Disney made $7 billion this year, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, finding dory, Fox, gareth edwards, his name rhymes with Pullverine, Hunger Marketing, Lights Out, Logan, Marvel, now you see me 2, rogue one, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Ryan Reynolds crossed with a Shar Pei, Scientist Man, Secret Life of Pets, Shut down Rotten Tomatoes, Sing Girls, Steven Chow, The Ghostbusters cinematic universe, The Mermaid, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Zach Snyder
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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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