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Movie Review – About Time (2013)
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It’s not a Groundhog Day movie About Time has time travel in it. Let’s get that out of the way. And while on the surface it seems to feature a Groundhog temporal loop, it doesn’t. The young man in question (a sincere, naive Domhnall Gleeson) can go back in time and fix things as often…
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It’s official: COVID19 will affect movie releases for the next decade
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in Movie NewsDisney has announced that all scheduled Star Wars and Avatar films between 2021 and 2027 are being pushed back one year. That means there will be no “Avatar 2” in 2021 and no new Star Wars film in 2022. The plan all along has been for Disney to alternate releasing either a Star Wars or Avatar movie every Christmas…
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Join Comic Con for free online right now!
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in Geek stuffThe 2020 San Diego Comic Con is online this year due to Co-Vid, and free to everyone around the world. Here’s my live report from Wednesday July 22, the first day of the big four day event. The first day (Wednesdays) are usually low key, with less hype, and more introspective panels. This year is…
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Best of British Biographies – Patrick Stewart
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Sir Patrick Stewart turns 80 this year. Happy Picard Day Birthday! The man’s been around the world of entertainment for over sixty years. Film and TV mind you, not just theatre, but it wasn’t until towards the end of the last millennium that he ‘appeared’. Making it so Surprised that Star Trek was still popular…
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How do the movies in Star Wars stand up to the Bechdel test?
Do the characters in Star Wars — movies ostensibly depicting future lives and worlds — pass the Bechdel test? I was up too late one night and decided to think this through. What is the Bechdel test, you ask? It’s generally accepted as whether a work of fiction features at least two named women who…
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Upcoming Horror Movies in 2020
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A Quiet Place Part II opens on March 20. The early buzz is positive. The sequel promises to be another unique theatrical experience. However, it’s not the only horror movie to look forward to this year. There are a lot of new horror flicks coming out over the coming months. Here’s a preview of…
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The Most Anticipated Science Fiction & Fantasy Shows of 2020
In a post-Endgame, post-Star Wars Saga world, I have a hole in my soul where movie anticipation used to live. I had a lot of anticipation in 2019 for the new Terminator film, X-Men: Dark Phoenix, Men in Black International, Zombieland 2, and Jumanji 3. All let me down in some way. They weren’t fails…
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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…
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RunPee – Our 2109 Movie Review Rankings (and who was stuck with the worst films!)
$2,797,800,564 world wide. You can buy a lot of Infinity Peecoins with that. 2019 closed out a decade of movies, not so much with a bang, but with a snap. Avengers: Endgame was a tour de force that culminated a decade defined, both culturally and monetarily, by the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Between 2010 and 2019…