Category: Movie Monday
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Does The Mummy (1999) Still Hold Up?
I’m always down for adventure flicks. But we’re also approaching the spooky season. Luckily for me, we’ve got a movie that strikes a nice little balance between them. I could just watch horror movies or slasher flicks. But then I’d be here for the next year reviewing ‘Halloween’ or ‘Friday the 13th’ movies. Maybe one…
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Breaking the Curse: The Rise of Anime and Video Game Adaptations
We used to live in simple times. If a movie was based on an anime or a video game, it was bad. No ifs, ands, or buts about it. They were bad. Like, to an insane degree. In terms of box office poison, they were the cream of the crop. Keywords in that paragraph being…
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I Was Wrong About Live Action One Piece
Most people hate being wrong. Me? I love being wrong about things. Being a pessimist, only good things can come about of me being wrong. Netflix has a downright historic catalogue of failed live action anime adaptations. Death Note, Fullmetal Alchemist, and Cowboy Bebop just to name a few. People keep screaming at them to…
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I Miss Video Rental Stores
Don’t mind me. Just exposing my age. Streaming services have made consuming media easier than ever before. Pick your service, pay the fee, them wham! You can watch whatever you want for however long you want whenever you want. Back in the day, however, it wasn’t so easy. When I was a kid, you couldn’t…
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I Finally Watched Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Dungeons and Dragons has more history with cinema than you might think. Most of it bad. There was the original theatrical film, as well as two direct to DVD sequels. The world’s favorite TTRPG is no stranger to movies. It is, however, a stranger to good movies. At least it was. Then we got this…
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