Category: Movie Opinions and Lists
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Die Hard and Beyond: Are They Really Christmas Films?
There are films that are obviously Christmas films; they only make sense because they’re set at Christmas; it only feels right to watch them at Christmas; they belong to Christmas. And then there are films that are associated with Christmas and they are the ones there are arguments about. So… a Christmas film… or or…
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RunPee Weekly Newsletter 36th edition (November 18th, 2020)
The app that tells you the best time to run and pee during a movie without missing the best scenes. NEW Wide Release Movie Review — Freaky So what they did in Freaky was take a horror theme and add a ton of comedy into it. Vince Vaughn nailed it. He was awesome to…
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Current & Upcoming Blumhouse Horror Releases
Blumhouse is a company known for producing popular, low-budget horror films (Paranormal Activity, The Purge, Happy Death Day, Get Out, and most recently The Invisible Man). So whenever they come out with a new title, it’s worth taking note. While Blumhouse certainly produces things other than horror flicks (Whiplash, BlacKKKlansman, and The Normal Heart —…
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Hobbitses – A Tolkien history – Behind the Lord of the Rings in epic fantasy films
Typical! Wait decades for a film with hobbits in, and six come along at the same time! At least, that’s how it felt. Like many teens of the time, I had my copy of the single volume paperback edition of The Lord Of The Rings, shortly after it was first published in 1968, having…
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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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Scoob! and the Hanna-Barbera Cinematic Universe
Warning: contains spoilers for Scoob! I grew up on the cartoons of Hanna-Barbera. Before they moved them all to Boomerang, the USA Network used to air them on a show called Cartoon Express. Every summer, I went to Kings Island theme park where they had live mascots from the cartoons just like Disney World. The…
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Basement Fixes to Salvage Famous Movie Basements
There are all sorts of famous movie basements out there and many of them end up with some sort of permanent problems. If you were to look at these famous movie basements, would you be able to fix the problems that arise during the movie? Here are some of the most famous movie basements, along…
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Null Movies – Films with a 0% score on Rotten Tomatoes
Null Movies are a thing After many weeks discussing how we grade movies at RunPee, from A+ through F-, I thought I was done. But NOT SO FAST! There’s an even worse film than the lowly F-. How about a null score that statistically nobody has a good thing to say about it? It’s so…
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Here Are The Foreign Movies You Should Watch On Netflix
When Parasite won four Oscars (can you believe that was this year?), director Bong Joon-ho said that you open yourself up to a whole world of content if you can just accept the couple of inches of subtitles. Anyone who has watched non-English movies and series can attest to this. The thing is, it is…
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Director Paul Verhoeven & the Woeful Reboots of Robocop, Total Recall, and Starship Troopers
What have the following all got in common: Robocop, Total Recall, and Starship Troopers? All three are cracking — if a bit O.T.T. — films by Dutch director Paul Verhoeven. Usually a term like ‘maverick’ is thrown in at some point but, as the only other Dutch director I’m aware of is Jan de Bont,…
