Sexy Mother Russia - TWB90
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This is not about elections, steel dossiers, or FBI reports I will never read. This is all about how sexy, crazy, cool, and dangerous those Russians can be on screen and off.
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Road Trip Heroes - TWB89
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15:17 to Paris is a Clint Eastwood film made for Lifetime that somehow made it to the big screen. A better road trip movie with a less inspirational story is Eurotrip.
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Sharks Plus Ocean Equals Scary - TWB88
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Recently, Warner Bros. released The Meg as proof that sharks are not bankable unless you make them silly. As frightening a creature as sharks seem, they are never good subjects for a movie. There are very few plots involving sharks in which to script an original film. Depending on the idea, a thrilling shark movie should never be over-conceptualized. Just keep it simple: sharks plus ocean equals scary.
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Netflix at The Oscars With Steven Spielberg -TWB87
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Roma did not win Best Picture. Whether this was a slight jab at the streaming giant or a well-deserved win for the other movie, the Oscars are not the same and never will be. But fear not, our Spectacled Crusader is here to save Hollywood from going Hollywood.
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Bohemian Travesty - TWB86
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At face value, Bohemian Rhapsody is a paint-by-the-numbers biopic without the celebratory weight of a meaningful story.
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State of Fear 2018
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Halloween has a newfound popularity rooted in a remake that is a sequel (a remakequel) to the beginnings of a franchise relaunch. Not new material, but there’s a case for simplicity with horror movies that over time lost to the evolving use of special effects and jump scares. Halloween (2018) wasn’t a great movie; however, it is what this genre needs as a reflection back to when simple storying telling thrilled the masses.
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Hollywood, We Have a Problem with Movie Franchises
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Remakes and Franchises make movie watching boring these days. Same ol’ this and with a sprinkle of that thing already imagined. Jurassic World and Ocean’s 8 are two examples of films —this summer— whose failure to deviate from the plot and character development of it’s precursors to produced a final product that hit all the marks of fanfare but lacked originality.
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Subscribe Me to Movie Pass - TWB83
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The movie theatre is a venue; a luxury, to which only some of us can afford to indulge regularly. Subscription services, like, Movies Pass, Stubs, and Cinemark’s Movie Club make that indulgence a more considerable option than waiting for movies to premiere on Netflix. No matter who’s paying, it’s a great experience when we’re paying less.
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Black Panther is The Only Black James Bond We Need - TWB82
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Black Panther is the only black James Bond we need. He has the tech, a suave demeanor, and the well intent to undermine criminal minds who threaten his nations. It would be great to have a black James Bond character on the big screen but as long as he or she is not James Bond and more Bond-like.
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Solo is The Ultimate George Lucas Clapback - TWB81
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If you hated Solo, you brought this upon yourself!
info_outlineThe 80’s welcomed in a different type of horror movie which steered away from the fear of the atomic 50’s and the boujee-ness of the 1960’s Euporean bloodsuckers. Horror did not necessarily include monsters but monstrous figures committing monstrous acts.
In the late 70’s and 80’s, the movie monster replaced cheesy storylines with utter suspense and terror, like, Jaws (1975) and Alien (1979). Long were the days of monsters coming from far outer space to terrorize earth. Now the monsters were next door in your own neighborhood and not so easy to dispose of.
As a kid, I watched (whenever permissible) creature features on television and sometimes those “creature features” were more Sci-Fi than epic monsters. The King Kong movies, Godzilla, gigantic mutant insect films, and aliens were a common staple of this genre but then there was Dracula and Werewolves sprinkled into the play mix. These were all considered horror movies at the time before they were all lumped into the distinctive category of The Creature Feature.
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EPISODE MENU
[3:58] - Colossal is the creature feature of this era of humanization in creature feature films. [9:06] - King Kong, Godzilla, Them!, are these films horror movies or creature features? [10:27] - Kong: Skull Island is just Moby Dick with a large ape instead of a whale. [18:43] - King Kong is a good example of the imbalance of nature vs man. [23:3] - Nature's wonderful miracles will eat your face off. [26:30] - Hunting on the Oregon Trail; fend for yourself or die of starvation or disease. [33:3o] - Hunting is taking a knife into the woods and seeing what happens. [35:52] - In the movies, Kong and Godzilla are nature's way of balancing things. What's keeping us in check?
FOR STARTERS
Ann Hathaway plays party girl Gloria who has to move back to her hometown when her fed-up boyfriend kicks her out of his apartment. Things quickly get weird when she discovers that she — by matters of pure obscure coincidence— controls a monster that terrorizes South Korea every evening after one of Gloria’s binge drinking fits. read review
SCOOP DU JOUR : The Natural Balance and Godzilla
The natural balance of nature was disrupted by the presence of an ancient creature. This event awakens Godzilla who must restore the balance set awry by the presence of this other beast. That’s why Kong was based in the seventies and not today. It wasn’t that Godzilla wanted to save mankind, he just wanted to eradicate that thing which should not exist within nature without a counterbalance. With Warner Bros. and it’s Monsterverse now established, it will be interesting to see if the next set of movies within this franchise focuses less on the humanization of the monsters and more on their need to exist because nature requires them to live.
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THIS, THAT, AND OTHER NEWS
Administration temporarily lifted on importing of elephant trophies and then thinks otherwise.
LINKS MENTIONED IN THE SHOW
- Picture of the baby rhino who lost its mother to poachers
- Wildlife conservation and saving to kill
- The attempt to lift sanctions on hunting endangered species, like, the grizzly bear.
- Poachers take rhino horns at a French zoo.
- The killing of a white wolf in one of our national parks
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That sounds like a bird, but it's a f$%king ant.
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