Category: Movie awards
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Sundance Festival Movie Review – R#J
I’ve taken a vacation from Facebook. Which makes it ironic that one of my favorite films from this year’s Sundance festival is drenched in social media. The classic story of Romeo and Juliet is told through text messages, Spotify playlists, FaceTime conversations, YouTube videos, search engine results, Facebook DM’s, and Instagram stories. It seems like…
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RunPee Weekly Newsletter #52 (March 10, 2021)
The app that tells you the best time to run and pee during a movie without missing the best scenes. The Sundance Film Festival 2021 Online Experience This year, I finally got my chance to attend Sundance, albeit online. How did it work and was the experience worth it? Here’s what the online film festival…
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Sundance 2021 Festival Movie Review – On the Count of Three
My Favorite Movie at Sundance This was my favorite movie at Sundance this year. It has a dark premise and comes with a major trigger warning. (Seriously, if you’re thinking of harming yourself please use the crisis text line instead of seeing this film, or even reading the rest of this review). But I found…
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The 100% Club – Movies so good not even Rotten Tomatoes can complain
The Best of the Best of the Best, Sir! I could easily make a list of movies we gave an A+ to at RunPee, but I thought I’d reach out and see what movies the rest of the world thinks can do no wrong. With us, sometimes we go in with low expectations and walk…
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F Movies – What films FAIL at RunPee
The dreaded F. These are the abominations littering the sticky cinema screening floor. They waste everyone’s time and money — whether it’s the production studio, the actors or director, the poor crew, and (especially) the viewers. Could they be any worse? They aren’t worth going straight to video. They aren’t worth seeing free on Netflix.…
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Movie theaters are opening on Friday! How to be safe and what we will see
We can’t contain our excitement about movies in theaters coming back! Chances are, if you’re on this site, you’re over the moon as well. Of course we have to be extra careful to distance ourselves, wear masks, sanitize our seating real estate, and not touch our faces, but this should all be second nature by…
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How movies earn an A Grade at RunPee
We consider an A, any A, from – to +, to be the best a movie in its genre has to offer. And while we sometimes — especially in long-running franchises — grade on a curve, we believe an A movie fulfills our expectations of a feature film of its type. So while all movies…
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Top 10 Stories from Sundance Film Festival 2020
The Sundance Film Festival recently wrapped up. The festival, founded by Robert Redford, is intended to give exposure to new and diverse voices. Often, there are movies that debut at Sundance that we end up talking about all year. For instance, Golden Globe nominee The Farewell. As always, a lot happened over the course of…
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Peeple’s Poll – Oscars Edition 2020
The 2020 Academy Awards ceremony was last night and the winners are in. Let’s take a look at how all the nominations for Best Picture did in the Peeple’s Poll.
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Jill’s Top Ten Movies of 2019
Here’s RunPee Jilly’s list of top ten favorite films of 2019. Keep in mind that my favorite films may not be ranked the highest as per movie grade. As RunPee Dan says about Uncut Gems, “A film might be graded an A and you still hated watching it.” That’s why I don’t have Rocketman or…
