I don’t usually post things about T.V. Mainly because I watch too many movies and don’t have enough time to watch all the shows that are out there. I do watch my fair share though and one of the ones I watched on the regular was the sketch comedy show Key & Peele. This is best sketch comedy show since Chapelle Show in the early 2000’s. It was brilliant, hilarious, and a great mix of social and…
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Continuing our look at the summer movie season, it’s time to take a break from the blockbusters and look at the indies. Hidden between the all the CGI, explosions, and terrible acting, some of the best independent films of the year are released in the summer. The past few years, films like Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012), Fruitvale Station (2013), Obvious Child (2014), and The End of the Tour (2015) have all been released during the summer with great success….
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Here’s the first of a new monthly piece where I will discuss the best movies coming to Netflix in the upcoming month. Since almost everyone uses Netflix, I thought I would give my recommendations on some of the movies they are getting. I’m not going to post about T.V. shows because well, I don’t want to. You can find the entire list of what’s coming out this month right here, but for now, here are my five…
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Continuing to look at the 2016 summer movie season, it’s time to talk awards. Most Oscar movies come out in the fall, but there have been a few instances where nominees and winners have come out in the summer and has great success on the awards circuit, like Boyhood (2014) and Midnight in Paris (2011). So let’s take a look at movies coming out this summer that have awards potential. 5 – War Dogs (Todd Phillips, August 19) War…
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It’s that time of the year again: it’s Summer Movie Season! All the big budget entertainment you’ve been waiting for all year is coming in full speed. Through out the week, I am going to break down the movies coming out this summer in different categories and genres and listing the ones I am most excited to see. I am first going to look at the comedies coming out this summer. Who doesn’t like having a…
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I think I saw Snow White and the Huntsman (2012). I think. I can’t be 100% certain. Obviously it didn’t make that big of an impression on me if I can’t remember seeing it, but it made a ton of money, so obviously it was going to get a second film, though I doubt it needed one. The Huntsman: Winter’s War is a sprequel, part prequel, part sequel, and a middle of the road film that…
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I really liked the first Barbershop (2002). It’s a very sweet, funny movie with good messages about family and friendship. Did it deserve a sequel? Probably not. Did it deserve to be a trilogy? Definitely not. But here we are with Barbershop: The Next Cut, the third film in the Barbershop series and, even though it didn’t deserve a trilogy, it is arguably the best film of the three. With the rise in gang violence surrounding the neighborhood, Calvin…
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Ah, 4/20, a national holiday in America dedicated to smoking weed. Whether you partake in the event or not, everyone can enjoy a good stoner movie. The fact that it’s its own genre is amazing. The one thing that all great stoner movies have is a great stoner. So let’s look at the best movie stoners and see who lands the highest (zing!). 5 – Saul Silver from The Pineapple Express (David Gordon Green, 2008) There…
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Hardcore Henry follows Henry, a man who was in some horrific accident and put back together using robotics and turned into a killing machine. He sets out to get his wife (Haley Bennett) back from a Magneto-like villain Akan (Danila Kozlovsky) before he creates super solders similar to Henry to take over the world. The entire movie is shot in the first person from the perspective of Henry, something that has never been done in the action…
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A quarter of the year is officially over. Amazing how time flies. We’ve officially passed through the garbage months of cinema and are heading full speed into the summer movie season. I’ve seen 43 movies this year and, surprisingly, we’ve gotten some really good movies these past couple months, a few that may even end up on my year end list. Let’s look at the best of 2016 so far and take a glimpse at to…
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