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  • A New Hope: Thor Director Taika Waititi Tapped to Fix Star Wars
    Remember when Taika Waititi fixed Thor? Well, now he gets the chance to show he can fix Star Wars. Waititi was already tapped to direct the hugely popular Disney+ Star Wars TV series The Mandalorian. The serialized Bounty-Hunter-meets- premise was greeted with nearly galactic reactions of relieved happiness. Star …
  • Movie Theaters Slowly Reopening, But With What Movies?
    It’s noteworthy that movie theaters are opening in some places around some US states and around the world. (Like in New Zealand.) We at RunPee are excited to see people getting back to the cinema, but that happiness is tempered by worry. No one wants movie theaters to become the …
  • Watch Broadway Shows at Home – ‘Best Of’ Playlists Streaming Free During Quarantine
    Tend to your need for pure culture during quarantine! There are plenty of classy places to explore from your own living room. Many people in “the industry” are adapting to our world’s new needs, offering including virtual museum visits, live opera and orchestral Zoom events, and now, adding streams of …
  • Indiana Jones 5 Film Delayed (again) Until July 2022
    Harrison Ford is going to have a hard time being believable in adventure films if Indiana Jones 5 is put off much longer, but it’s exactly what he — and us — are facing. Now we won’t get to see our favorite globe-trotting, death-defying archaeologist in action again until July …
  • New Zealand Movie Theaters to Re-Open this Week
    The government of New Zealand wants to promote a sense of ‘normalcy’, according to NZ’s Stuff site, by having people still be able to attend movies during the time of the CoVid-19 epidemic. As of this morning, according to the New Zealand Herald, movie theaters will officially reopen Thursday, May …
  • Next Mission Impossible – and Tom Cruise – Heads to the International Space Station
    The next mission in the next Mission Impossible will be on the real International Space Station! While the news is super cool, it should surprise exactly no one. Yes. It’s Tom Cruise, in spaaaaaaace! Announced on May 5 of 2020: Mission Impossible star Cruise has partnered with NASA and Elon Musk’s SpaceX …
  • Movie Artemis Fowl Going Straight to Streaming June 12, and Why This Matters
    In a major movie news event, Disney announced they’re sending their summer blockbuster Artemis Fowl straight to streaming, bypassing any theatrical release. They’re skipping cinemas entirely. This is significant. Every other feature initially on Hollywood’s 2020 summer roster has been rescheduled to late Fall — or next year. Or, in …
  • Jean-Luc Picard Writes a Quarantine Starlog – A playful Star Trek ‘episode’ for troubled times
    The newest Star Trek television show, called simply Picard, is not immune to the effects of the world (galaxy?) spanning quarantine.  Star Trek: Picard showrunner, writer, and director Akiva Goldsman playfully imagines what Trek would be like in the wake of social distancing and isolation. Here’s our favorite ex-captain, ex-ambassador Jean-Luc …
  • RunPee Weekly Newsletter – April 29th, 2020
      The app that tells you the best time to run and pee during a movie without missing the best scenes. ​ ​ Shawn of the Dead Reprise – CoVid-19 Advice from Simon Pegg “Hey, so what’s the plan?” Does that bring back fond memories of everyone’s favorite Zombie comedy? If so, you have to watch …
  • New Hunger Games Prequel Movie Announced
    A new Hunger Games movie? Yes, please! The new movie title is The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, and it’s a prequel. Author Suzanne Collins is writing the novel right now, which should be published by May 19th. Of course the movie rights are already picked up by Lionsgate, according to …
  • 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. …
  • Comic Con 2020 is Cancelled
    For the first time in 51 years, world premier event San Diego Comic Con is cancelled, due to the Viral Apocalypse. Last year I attended the 50th anniversary of the SD Comic Con, and things were in high swing. Just like it was when I attended the year before, and the …
  • A Gift of Gunn: The Complete Awesome Mix is now Available
    The Guardians of the Galaxy Awesome Mix volumes are now complete! James Gunn’s entire list of Meredith Quill’s favorite songs are on a playlist everyone can listen to. It’s Gunn’s personal quarantine gift to the world. Fantasy website Tor.com reports: “James Gunn is staying active on Instagram, giving shout-outs to his cast …
  • Get paid $1k to watch Harry Potter in one binge session
    Sounds too good to be true — sit back during your enforced at-home quarantine and earn $1000 watching Harry Potter? Accio money! You might have even just completed a Harry Potter rewatch on your own, but you’re trapped at home anyway by virtue of the CoVid-19 viral pandemic, and this is …
  • Free movie streaming event on YouTube-Hunger Games, John Wick, La La Land, and Dirty Dancing
    Due to movie theaters being closed due to CoVid-19 LionsGate studio is hosting a live streaming event each Friday night for the next 4 weeks on YouTube. Actress Jamie Lee Curtis will host the Friday night event (6:00 pm PT/9:00 pm ET), which will stream on Lionsgate’s YouTube page. Hunger Games on …
  • Watching Outbreak in the time of CoVid-19
    I recently rewatched the 1994 disaster film Outbreak, because 1. I always loved that movie, 2. kind of dig diseases (I like science, okay?), and 3. there’s a real global pandemic happening right now. You’ve probably heard about that. Also, 4. I needed to get Peetimes for Outbreak, because I’m not the …
  • A Return to Americana – Drive In Movie Theaters Are Back in Style
    With every movie theater closed in America because of the deadly Co-Vid-19 outbreak,  a bit of 1950s style Americana is back in vogue. People are heading back to drive-in theaters, where they can watch a double feature from the comfort and socially distanced safety of their cars. Everyone stuck in …
  • AMC Theaters may be headed for bankruptcy and what that means
    Wall Street analysts at MKM Partners wrote on Thursday, April 9th, “Based on our view that theatres will be closed until at least August and our belief that AMC lacks the liquidity to stay afloat until that time, we expect the company will soon be faced with filing for bankruptcy.” …
  • How to make Netflix Parties with your friends
    Quarantine left you feeling lonely? Sick of watching movies by yourself every day? Netflix has a novel solution to let you make watch parties around the world with your best buds: the new Netflix Party feature. If you have a Netflix account, this function is free! See movies together while …
  • Contagion Cast Creates CoVid-19 PSAs
    Question: What do Matt Damon, Lawrence Fishburne, and Kate Winslet have in common with the CoVid-19 global crisis? Answer: They’re the stars of 2011’s eerily prophetic viral pandemic movie Contagion. The actors made short video PSAs about preventing the spread of the deadly coronavirus that’s infecting millions of people world-wide right …
  • Does Contagion have an Extra Scene: A Chilling End Note
    Contagion. It’s a scary and oddly prescient movie during our current world-wide Coronavirus crisis, where the deaths today reached 61,144, and the cases are at 1,139,112. (As stated by the live tracking site WorldOMeter.) We always report if there are extra scenes in the movies we see for RunPee, and recently …
  • Bad guys can’t use an iPhone on camera
    Apple does not allow bad guys to use an iPhone on camera in a movie. Seriously, this is a thing. You can hear Knives Out director Rian Johnson spill the secret in this entertaining video below, where he breaks down a scene from Knives Out. I’ve linked the video to the specific spot …
  • No Time to Be Sick: James Bond Movie Postponed Until November
    No Time to Die, the newest James Bond film, is officially postponed ’til November 25th in the US. (November 12 in the UK.) You read that right: NOVEMBER! Originally planned for an April 2020 release, the final Daniel Craig flavored Bond feature will now air during the end-of-year blockbuster season. With …
  • No Time to Die movie posters from around the world
    No Time to Die movie posters from around the world
  • No Time to Die will be the longest Bond film ever
    Tickets are on sale for No Time to Die and the runtime is listed as 163 minutes (2 hours, 43 mins). That would make No Time To Die 15 minutes longer than any other James Bond movie — Spectre, which was 148 minutes long.

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Movie Reviews

Movie Review – Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire

I’m a big fan of the Monsterverse. I have enjoyed all of them, usually more than I expected…

Movie Review – Immaculate

Immaculate blew me away. I did not prepare myself adequately. I want to first address the graphic…

Netflix’s Three-body – first episode review

First, let me start with some context. I’m a born and raised in China kind of Chinese…

Movie Review – Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

I didn’t have high hopes, but this was better than I expected. That isn’t a surprise…

Adam Savage Tours the Ghostbusters “Frozen Empire Firehouse” with director Jason Reitman

In this fascinating YouTube video, Adam Savage, known for his work on MythBusters, takes a tour of…

Movie Review – The American Society of Magical Negroes

“Welcome to the American Society of Magical Negroes!” is said to Aren (Justice Smith) as his world…

Movie Review – Love Lies Bleeding

Love Lies and Bleeding was bloody awful. I’ve become quite the fan of A24 Productions and they…

Movie Review – Knox Goes Away

Knox Goes Away was a fantastic movie. It kept you engaged for almost two hours. It gives you hope…

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