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The Fox X-Men movie series is dead. What went right?

By Matthew Martin

| August 22, 2019

In the mid-90's, Fox bought the rights to the most culturally relevant superheros in the Marvel roster. What they did with the X-Men was...a mixed bag. Let's look back on the dirty dozen movies released under the X-Men banner, splitting them between the HIGHS and lows of Fox's ownership...

Disney vs Sony, with Spider-Man in the middle

By Matthew Martin

| August 21, 2019

Spider-Man's real enemy is greed. Let's talk about the deal to bring Marvel's most popular character to the MCU and how it's all fallen apart...

Where have you gone, Rick Moranis?

By Matthew Martin

| August 14, 2019

After a string of successful roles in the 1980's and early 90's Rick Moranis essentially walked away from Hollywood, leaving a hole in the industry that has never been filled. It's been twenty-five years since he starred in a major motion picture. Where have you gone, Rick Moranis, and are you ever coming back?

Every Quentin Tarantino movie ranked!

By Matthew Martin

| July 31, 2019

In honor of the release of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (review included here), let's look back on Quentin Tarantino's filmography. No QT movie is bad, but some have risen to be better and more timeless than others...

The Blair Witch Project is still awesome…twenty years later

By Matthew Martin

| July 24, 2019

It's hard to appreciate the cultural impact The Blair Witch Project had on the late 90's world. It was monumental and cinema-defining. Twenty years later it's lumped in with a lot of garbage but let's look back on the original film, to see how well it holds up...

Batman 1989 was not Batman…until it was.

By Matthew Martin

| July 16, 2019

Tim Burton's first take on the caped crusader was transformative, radical, bizarre, and brilliant. Thanks to incredible music, set design, and casting, Batman 89 remains a must-see comic book movie, thirty years later. Let's talk about it...

The IRON GIANT is still awesome…twenty years later

By Matthew Martin

| July 3, 2019

"What if a gun had a soul and didn't want to be a gun?" That's the premise behind this ignored gem of a movie from 1999. The Iron Giant failed to make a mark on a busy Hollywood year, but time has been good to it. Let's look back on a film that's thankfully beloved today...

Thirty-Five years later, Ghostbusters is still the perfect comedy

By Matthew Martin

| June 28, 2019

Thirty-five years ago Ghostbusters was the perfect sci-fi comedy summer blockbuster. Today, thirty-five years later, it remains the gold standard. If it's been a hot minute since you last saw it, remedy that this summer. Rewatch Ghostbusters, and laugh just as hard today as you did thirty-five years ago...

The X-Men movie timeline makes no sense

By Matthew Martin

| June 4, 2019

As we prepare to say goodbye to the Fox era of X-Men movies, let's look back on the franchise and consider just how little sense any of it makes when viewed as a whole...

20 YEARS LATER, THE STAR WARS: EPISODE I TEASER STILL GIVES ME CHILLS

By Matthew Martin

| May 29, 2019

I haven't watched Episode I (the movie) all the way through in probably five years, but I still watch the first trailer from time to time, and when I do all my jaded cynicism melts away, and I'm back to being the wide-eyed kid that George made these silly movies for in the first place...

AVENGERS ENDGAME is a love letter to the MCU fanbase (no spoilers)

By Matthew Martin

| April 27, 2019

Endgame does the near-impossible: It sticks the landing after ten years of flying higher than anyone ever imagined

The Matrix is still awesome…twenty years later

By Matthew Martin

| April 26, 2019

Twenty years ago Star Wars Episode I dominated pop culture, but bubbling under the surface was a small, indie-feeling sci-fi film with a much smaller budget and much bigger ambitions...

The Rise of Skywalker: FINALLY! We get to overanalyze a Star Wars teaser again…

By Matthew Martin

| April 14, 2019

Disney has just released the first trailer for what is said to be the final movie in the Star Wars "Skywalker" saga. Let's analyze and discuss every moment in the two minute teaser!

The Mummy is still awesome…twenty years later

By Matthew Martin

| March 31, 2019

Try and forget about the horrible 2017 version. Take you minds back to 1999, to a golden year in cheesy cinema, and to an Indiana Jones knock-off that had too much fun to be hated. Let's talk about The Mummy...

Toy Story 4 and ruminations on, of all things, philosophy

By Matthew Martin

| March 24, 2019

When it comes to Toy Story, the stories are about more than just "toys are really alive and do stuff when their owners aren't looking." That's the premise that appeals to kids. Adults see the deeper meaning: These movies explore what it means to be alive. Toy Story 4 is no different...

Fight Club is still awesome…twenty years later

By Matthew Martin

| February 28, 2019

Fight Club's reputation has risen and fallen since 1999. It was released to general apathy and later climbed to prominence, before coming around to being regarded as a movie merely pretending to be about something. So how does it fare today, twenty years later? Read on...

About Time is the perfect Valentine’s movie for sci-fi fans

By Matthew Martin

| February 11, 2019

If you're looking for a film to share with a special someone this Valentine's Day, a movie to serve as a gateway to other, deeper, "cult entertainment" films, consider About Time, a movie which deserves way more love than it got in 2013...

Get Hyped: The big movies of 2019 (part two)

By Matthew Martin

| January 29, 2019

Every year it seems we say “this year is going to be incredible for movies” but this year…hoo baby. This year looks like nothing cinemas have seen since the magical year of 1982. There are so many potentially huge films coming out this year; here are just a few releasing in the second half of 2019...

The Sixth Sense is still awesome…twenty years later

By Matthew Martin

| January 20, 2019

1999 offered a host of genre-defining and culturally impactful films. Let's consider a few, starting with M. Night Shyamalan's major debut: The Sixth Sense, a film that blended genres, broke rules, and blew minds, twenty years ago...

Get Hyped: The big movies of 2019 (part one)

By Matthew Martin

| January 7, 2019

This year looks like nothing cinemas have seen since the magical year of 1982. There are so many potentially huge films coming out this year, we can't even fit them all in one article.

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