Category: Movie Opinions and Lists
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Top Astronaut Movies to Rewatch Right Now
Here at RunPee we lean heavily into covering science fiction movies, since we’re huge geeks. You’ve probably noticed. 😉 We especially love movies about scientists and space. There are many wonderful space movies featuring astronauts as heroes…which, of course in real life they are. Think of the training and deprivations these outstanding people undergo to…
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Forget life for a while and watch all 9 episodes of Star Wars… AT ONCE
Thank you Internet, for once again delivering something new and distracting for us. Watch this YouTube video of a nine screen split of Star Wars episodes I – IX. It’s crazy! UPDATE: Well, you actually can’t watch this now. Disney managed to find it overnight and yanked it, stating copyright concerns. Which is their right:…
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Movie DVDs Released In February 2020
Here are this month’s new DVD releases, complete with our movie grades, links to our quirky, personable RunPee Family reviews…plus links to each movie on Amazon. We get a small kickback on all Amazon purchases if you use our links (and THANK YOU!) and it doesn’t cost you even one penny extra to buy them.…
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A Brief History of The Invisible Man
Leigh Whannell’s remake of The Invisible Man hits theaters on February 28. It should be interesting. Whannell was one of the writers and actors in Saw. Production company Blumhouse is behind Happy Death Day and The Purge series. This is the first attempt at doing anything interesting with the character of the Invisible Man on…
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Top 10 Video Game Themed Movies
Sonic the Hedgehog is opening February 14. (How romantic!) The popular video game character who debuted on the Sega Genesis is finally getting his own movie. The film’s initial release date was delayed when the filmmakers decided to rework the character’s design after negative backlash from the fans. Video game movies are often a disappointment,…
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Star Wars – A Galaxy of Daddy Issues
Daddy issues. What would Star Wars be without them? And how many Star Wars movies center around this one big Oedipal question? I have to wonder about George Lucas’ extreme father fixation. Darth Vader even means ‘dark father’, which is a seriously big clue right off the bat. Daddy Issues are a huge thing in…
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Weekly Peeple’s Poll Results for January 27, 2020
Everyone is talking about 1917, and justifiably so because it’s an excellent movie, but Just Mercy continues to impress Peeple. By the end of the year both movies will likely be near the top of the favorite movies as voted on by RunPee fans. We had three new movies out this week. The Last Full…
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How is this a thing? Three Funny Hitler Movies
Funny Hitler movies are a genre no one wants to admit they like. Yet there are at least three award-winning, lovable, and thoroughly enjoyable films that take a satiric look at Hitler over time, and make the humor work. Let’s take a look at how this weird phenomena somehow stole our hearts, even as recently…
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Every Time Die was in the title of a James Bond Film
We’ve got the “last” Bond film with Daniel Craig coming out in early April. Of course, DIE is in the title. This is a recognizable Bond thing. But how many 007 movies really have die in the title after all? Let’s take a look. Live and Let Die (1970) I can’t complain about the film…