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It finally happened, for the first time in years. It was perfect. It’s opening night of “Top Gun: Maverick,” the sequel to a 36-year-old movie that is mostly loved today for nostalgic or ironic reasons. The new “Top Gun” should be terrible, a jingoistic Tom Cruise vehicle that is only good for a few forgettable […]
Is time passing more quickly or is that just a cliche for those of us thickly stuck in the midst of a mid-life crisis? All I know is that it feels like the Summer Movie Season was just here, and now we’re already diving deep into another one just as theaters are seeming to be […]
Nostalgia is a tricky lens through which to view the past, especially pop culture. A movie or a show that we grew up with carries much more emotional cache than something we just stumbled across on Hulu at 4pm on a Thursday. “Star Wars” is a perfect example: For some people (me included), the original […]
MINOR MARVEL SPOILERS AHOY As a life-long science fiction and comic book nerd, the idea of the multi-verse hasn’t been new to me since I was a kid, but Marvel is doubling down on the concept with Phase Four of the MCU. With “Loki,” we got a look at all the different variants of the […]
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE THE BAD GUYS: Sam Rockwell as an anti-hero wolf who, along with his team of thieves, starts pretending to be a good guy in order to eventually get away with bad guy stuff. With a voice cast featuring Marc Maron, Zazie Beetz, Craig Robinson, Richard Ayoade, Awkwafina […]
As this very mellow winter slowly comes to an end, I want to give a shout out to all my specific temperature peoples that don’t do well in freezing weather or sweltering hot weather. Either; instead only ever truly comfortable right around 67 degrees in the sun with a mild breeze. Don’t let anyone mock […]
Sorry, I’m gonna date myself real quick. One of the only times I ever skipped school was March 31 of my senior year when I took off during lunch to go to the first showing of “The Matrix” at my local theater. Yeah, I was a real troublemaker. I went into that movie expecting some […]
I‘ve said it before, and I know I’ll say it again: We need better stoner movies. For the last three 4/20’s in a row, I’ve been trying to come up with a new and improved stoner canon, something better than a random Cheech and Chong movie or “Half Baked,” smarter and more brain expandy than […]
How much of who we are is based on the memories and moments that have imprinted on us since birth? I sometimes wonder if I woke up tomorrow completely tabula rasa, would I find my way back to loving the same movies, the same music, the same people, or would I end up being some […]
There’s something so purely timeless to me about a good old-fashioned double feature. I don’t mean like at the drive-in where it’s a specially curated two-fer of films that are thematically connected or are perfectly paired with each other. Don’t get me wrong…those are great, but there’s something beautiful about seeing two movies just because […]
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