The Deeply Stupid Cannes-Netflix Controversy, Explained
Among all the film festivals in the world, Cannes has always stood out as being especially rowdy. In that way, it’s the Golden Globes of film festivals just with more [...]
Special Features
Nostalgia Buster: Does Overboard’s Kidnap-And-Brainwash Plot Hold Up in 2017?
Overboard, director Gary Marshall’s 1987 snobs and slobs rom-com, is one of those movies everyone of a certain age seems to have seen and loved. When the We Hate Movies [...]
How Ron Perlman Became Hellboy
During his recent Planet Comicon panel, Ron Perlman told a lovely story about how exactly he came to be Hellboy. Who cares? He’s old news! We’re going to have a new [...]
Doing My Best to Not Care If Guardians of the Galaxy 2 Is Better, Worse or Just as Good As the First One
The Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 review embargo lifted yesterday, and the internet was flooded with mixed reviews from critics and Youtubers. The consensus? Vol. 2 is a [...]
How Have I Never Seen One of the Fast and the Furious Movies?
According to BoxOfficeMojo, since 2001 the seven Fast and the Furious films have sold 172,497,200 movie tickets in the United States and Canada. Not a single one of those [...]
The Hays Code Was Created 87 Years Ago Today. Here Are Some Examples of Pre-Code Hollywood.
March 31, 1930, a date that will live in…minor notoriety? To be honest, it’s not even a date I normally remember as being important, but thanks to an NPR report [...]
Literally Just a Video of Arnold Schwarzenegger Movie Lines Spliced Into Star Wars IV-VI
YouTube and its curious algorithm just recommended that I watch this 4-year-old video of Arnold Schwarzenegger movie lines spliced into Darth Vader scenes from Star Wars IV, [...]
Godzilla & Kong: Skull Island: Two Entirely Different Monster Movies
Godzilla and Kong: Skull Island have laid the foundation for a new cinematic universe. If all goes according to plan at the box office with Skull Island, we’ll soon see a [...]
King Kung Fu, My Town’s (Sort Of) King Kong Movie
In honor of the release of Kong: Skull Island here’s the story of a very different kind of King Kong movie: “Hey, you’re a movie guy. Have you ever heard of King Kung [...]
What Can Actually Be Done to Fix the Oscars?
Around halfway through what turned into the longest (and most memorable) Oscars telecast in a decade, host Jimmy Kimmel threw to a video montage of foreign [...]
