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August 16, 2016

SAUSAGE PARTY [Review]: You’re Invited to the Dirtiest Party of the Summer!

If you like laughing, and/or offensive satire, and/or Lego Movie level of subversion and playing with expectations, and have not seen Sausage Party yet, then get off your ass. Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Ariel Shaffir, and Kyle Hunter have crafted a script that is at once borderline offensive, childishly juvenile, remarkably subversive, and meta in …

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August 3, 2016August 3, 2016

SUICIDE SQUAD [Review]: The Killing Joke.

Since I'm known at this point as some sort of DC Cinematic Universe apologist, many of you are likely expecting me to attack critics and Rotten Tomatoes once again. Well, expect the unexpected -- in this review, not the movie itself -- because I'm as conflicted about Suicide Squad as these reborn villains' call of …

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July 29, 2016

STAR TREK BEYOND [Review]: …the Farthest Star.

I'm a fan of Star Trek. I'm not obsessive with the minutiae of it all (not as much as some other pop culture staples...**ahemJamesBondahem**), but I appreciate it greatly, both as a cultural touchstone and influence, and as an enduring storytelling series. That being said, I absolutely loathed.. LOATHED.. the previous film, the 2013 Star …

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July 26, 2016July 26, 2016

JUSTICE LEAGUE REBIRTH / BETTY & VERONICA / THE HELLBLAZER REBIRTH / STAR WARS [Reviews]: Con Air.

Evening folks...and those of you NOT at the San Diego Comic Con (wide-span coverage, all over the site). We have a few new titles to look at here in this brief Fistful, including a reintroduction to an old, streetwise favorite, and a return to a galaxy far, far away. So without much further ado, let's …

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July 16, 2016July 16, 2016

GHOSTBUSTERS [Review]: Who You Gonna.. Snapchat?

If there is one film that has divided the internet, then it's Paul Feig's sort-of-but-not-really-a-remake of 1984's cult classic Ghostbusters. It's not often a film gets political but -- since this new version features an all-female team -- everyone has taken a stance on whether this movie is a good idea. Like everything on the …

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July 14, 2016July 14, 2016

FATAL DEVIATION [Woeful Worship]: You’ll Believe a Monk Can Fly!

Ireland is home to an Irish kung-fu movie. That sentence alone--while baffling--is remarkably, entirely true, and prone to multiple iterations of, "What? Huh? The hell? Why? What drugs did you do? ALL OF THEM?!" and so forth. This is not an urban legend, my fellow congregation, nor is it a mythic sermon. This is a …

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