1. Movie Review: The Expendables
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The Expendables is a good example of the type of lazy, bait and switch movie making that seems to be getting more and more common. They went through the trouble of signing a huge cast of action greats, ...

2. Somewhere A Metalhead is Playing D&D and Weeping
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... characters like Conan the Barbarian, John Carter of Mars, and Tarzan. He also worked with Ralph Bakshi on the animated feature Fire and Ice, provided art for a number of movie posters, and did album ...

3. Archetype of the Week: The Rookie
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... stories, especially cop movies, the rookie's career will move in one of two directions: either he'll prove himself and become one of the heroes, or he'll die, usually in a way that is either darkly ...

4. The Rules: Robin Hood
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... series starring Jonas Armstrong, which is lots of fun despite (and occasionally because of) it's quirks. Last but not least, I went to see a Ridley Scott movie starring Russell Crowe that is called ...

5. Robin Hood: Prince of Teabaggers?
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As I sat through Ridley Scott's new Robin Hood movie, I thought the main problem with it was the fact that, except for the characters, it had absolutely nothing to do with the Robin Hood legend. It wasn't ...

6. The Funniest Shit You've Never Seen: God Edition
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... of movies like The Omen, and tells the story of the coming end of the world. The Anti-Christ has been born and the Apocalypse is on the way, but an angel and demon who have been on earth since the Garden ...

7. Wednesday WWPHITM?: Tank Girl Reborn
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Since 4 out of every 5 movies these days is a remake or adaptation, I've got this fantasy that one day somebody in Hollywood will give Diablo Cody a bunch of money to make a new Tank Girl movie. Below ...

8. Movie Review: Hot Tub Time Machine
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Hot Tub Time Machine follows the Snakes on a Plane tradition of telling you right in the title whether or not you're going to enjoy the movie. If you think the title is dumb, you probably won't care ...

9. Wednesday WWPHITM?: Preacher
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That's right, it's time for another installment of WWPHITM? This time around, we're going to cast the Preacher comic book series. While it might be possible to do it as a movie, I think this is best ...

10. Movie Review: The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus
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... to go belly-up. Thankfully Gilliam and co-writer Charles McKeown came up with a way to simultaneously keep Ledger in the film (and thus satisfy the movie's financial backers) and recast his role. Read ...

11. Movie-Going for Morons
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... I go to the movies a lot. There’s just not much else to do around here that’s still fun when you’re sober. I usually average around two movies a week, so it’s not unusual for me to encounter people who ...

12. Movie Review: Avatar
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Pandora is a distant planet rich in a valuable mineral amusingly named "unobtainium." The only problem is that the richest deposit lies directly beneath the village of a group of natives known as the Navi--ten-foot ...

13. Archetype of the Week: The Small-Time Crook
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The small-time crook is a person who relies on illegal activities to make a living, but doesn’t have the abilities, resources, or imagination to pull off a big score. Some small-time crooks specialize ...

14. Goat Head Gumbo: The Quest for the Holy Grail
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... Theater in downtown Lexington and, much as I hate to admit it, I occasionally quoted the movie. Then I started working at a comic shop, and later for Hex Games, and after a few years I thought Monty Python ...

15. Movie Review: The Box
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... the box would be a lot less painful than watching the new movie, The Box. The film tells the story of Cameron Diaz and Cyclops, two very uninteresting people with an uninteresting kid and terrible accents. ...

16. Movie Review: The Men Who Stare at Goats
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The usual way to adapt a movie based on a piece of reporting is to tell the story being reported on, leaving out the reporter entirely. With a Jon Ronson book, however, that sort of adaptation doesn’t ...

17. Book Review: The Men Who Stare At Goats
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... shuffle, so I didn't hear about The Men Who Stare at Goats until someone mentioned the movie on their Twitter feed (where I'm now following Ronson, so I'll catch the next one). About a week later I saw ...

18. Movie Review: Surrogates
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... movie with plot holes big enough to drive a star destroyer through. Bruce’s newest sciffy flick, Surrogates, falls somewhere between the two extremes. Read More At Epinions.com  ...

19. Movie Review: Jennifer's Body
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Jennifer’s Body is the story of two high school friends, the popular, pretty bad girl Jennifer (Megan Fox) and her geeky (which of course in movie land means “also incredibly hot, but wears glasses) ...

20. Movie Review: The Final Destination (3-D)
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Movie Final Destination movies follow a pretty simple formula: a bunch of people narrowly escape a major accident after one of the characters experiences a premonition about the disaster. Shortly thereafter, ...