The Summer ‘08 movie season: where successful movies played the movies disguised as other movies. »

I have to say that I’m entirely confused. Was the Summer 2008 popcorn summer movie season a good one or wasn’t it? The batpod-tastic success of The Dark Knight certainly seems as though we can mark this one in the “win” column, but on reflection I realize that I saw about a third fewer movies [...]

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When exactly was it that John McClane got super powers? »

I don’t know about you, but I was always a John McClane fan, right from the very beginning – the very day – when I left the theater in that hot July of 1988 in Upstate New York. I was hooked and forever changed. The seeds that Star Wars and Raiders had planted in me [...]

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Summer’s parade of loud, mindless, popcorn-munchery movies is nearly here. »

RopeofSilicon.com has done a very nice job of putting the summer-release movies into one ginormous preview with links to trailers, stills, cast info and more. With a resource like this, you shouldn’t have to do any of your own thinking when it comes to making movie choices for the next four months.
Personally? Out of the [...]

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