movies
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This Was The Decade That Spoiler Culture Changed Everything
Spoiler alert: We all love spoilers. That doesn’t necessarily mean that we all want them, of course”there are as many people who fervently avoid details about upcoming stories as there are people who hunt them down to learn beforehand. But as the 2010s come to a close, the way we talk about spoilers with each…
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Snowpiercer Reviewed: A Train Movie That Understands What’s Really Going On
With the recent smash success of Parasite, it is as good a time as any to re-visit (or watch for the first time) Bong Joon-Ho’s 2013 masterpiece Snowpiercer, in which an alternate-universe Captain America leads a class revolt up a train containing the last remnants of humanity in a frozen climate-changed world. I say masterpiece…
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Ford V. Ferrari Pares A World War Down To Two Characters — And That’s Just The Way It Needs To Be
I wasn’t sure how I was going to feel about Ford V. Ferrari. I will always, always be stoked for big-budget movie about race cars, but having spent the past year or so researching everything about mid-’60s Le Mans (including the legendary 1966 event) for my own fictional novel about the race, I had my…
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Venom Director Ruben Fleischer Wishes People Were Nicer To The Film, Which Made $1.25 Billion
Because Ruben Fleischer’s Venom was missing a number of major elements of Eddie Brock’s antiheroic origins from Marvel’s comics (see: Spider-Man), there was a significant chunk of time when the public’s feelings about the movie ranged from apprehensive to outright hostile. But then the movie finally hit theatres and — surprisingly(?) — it made bank…