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RunPee Star Wars Hub
The 45th anniversary of the first film in the Star Wars franchise is rapidly approaching. It would have been nice to say that the premiere was on May 4th but, back then, no one knew that they had such a phenomenon on their hands. As a result the US release date sits three weeks after…
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JB, Or Not JB, That Is The Question
Imagine if Ian Fleming had been a US Marine rather than British Naval Intelligence. Furthermore, imagine if he’d written about a secret agent operating in the dying embers of the Cold War rather than during the whitest of white hot parts. Let’s just say, imagine if he was Robert Ludlum rather than Ian Fleming. So…
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Our Favorite Drone Shots From Hollywood So Far
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in ListDrones have been used for quite some time, what was once an occasional tool in the hand of the directors in Hollywood are now regulars on the film set. The eagle-eyed can find one of the most prominent recent examples of how they’re now used to a significant effect on the Netflix movie, Red Notice,…
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It’s A Wonderful Live
We all know that films have had to be rearranged, rescheduled, and generally buggered around with. Plague 2.0 took no prisoners and everyone and everything was held to ransom. Over a hundred films had their release dates delayed. Some, like Tenet, were delayed for only a few weeks. That was released as a test of…
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Holy bladder-bursters Batman, your new film is almost 3 hours long
The Batman, starring Robert Pattinson as Batman, is set to open in theaters on March 4th, 2020. Brace yourself, because the movie runtime is reported to be two hours and fifty-five minutes (175 min), with the last eight minutes being the credits. It’s currently unknown if there is an extra scene during, or after, the end…
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RunPee Weekly Newsletter #96 (January 12th, 2022)
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in NewsletterThe app that tells you the best time to run and pee during a movie without missing the best scenes. Marvel Cinematic Universe – WandaVision Spider-Man: No Way Home is doing gangbusters in theaters, for good reason. It’s really digging into the Multiverse Saga that began with last year’s Disney+ MCU shows, especially WandaVision and…
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Independent Films Reviewed in 2021
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in IndependentWhile the mainstream cinema has been hobbled by the necessary restrictions put in place by the pandemic, the smaller, independent producers haven’t been so restrained. In fact, I go as far as to say that some independent producers were actually inspired by the situation and managed to take advantage of empty streets and the high…
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Christmas Classic First Watch Review – Holiday Inn (1942)
I’ll admit to being a bit confused by Holiday Inn. I intended to see the film with the song White Christmas in it and, obviously went for the one called White Christmas. Now I knew that Bing Crosby sang White Christmas but I was also fairly confident that Fred Astaire was in it. Oh…I love…
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RunPee Weekly Newsletter #85 (October 27th, 2021)
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The app that tells you the best time to run and pee during a movie without missing the best scenes. DUNE I’ve read the Dune series more times than I remember. And I’ve seen every video adaption made, numerous times. I can come close to quoting the character’s dialog line-for-line. Therefore, I can only review…
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How I Became An Independent Film Reviewer
So… the whole world was gripped by the pandemic and, due to medical reasons, I’m identified as “someone thought to be clinically extremely vulnerable and at highest risk of becoming very unwell if you catch COVID-19,” and, as a result, I was, essentially, housebound. I’d gone from going out every day of the week,…
