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The following article contains mild spoilers. Bohemian Rhapsody gives Freddie Mercury two boyfriends. One’s an evil manager, Allen Leech, with a decent amount of screen time. He and Freddie exchange one, non-consensual, kiss. The other, Jim Hutton, is a masc, … Continue reading LGBT Media: Boyfriends in Biopics
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I forgot to mention this in a previous post, but according to some stats, Christmas at Pemberley Manor was “Marked Highest-Rated and Most-Watched Cable Program on Saturday.” People truly tune into this stuff. Also, Hallmark calls its viewers “Hallmarkies” on … Continue reading Hallmark Christmas: It’s Christmas, Eve Recap/Review
November is a good slow start to the holiday season with things really getting underway at Thanksgiving but there are a number of things that are brought out earlier to try and jumpstart things a bit more. This weekend saw … Continue reading Box Office: November 9-11
It’s time for another round of Muppet Casting, where we take a famous movie and ask, if Jim Henson’s Muppets made their own version of it (in the vein of The Muppet Christmas Carol and Muppet Treasure Island), which Muppets … Continue reading Muppet Casting: The Godfather
As much as I have been looking forward to moving on from talking about horror (a luxury which Overlord didn’t provide), I can’t say that this is what I was eager to move on to. A two+ hour YA discussion … Continue reading Movie Reviews: The Hate U Give (2018)
It feels good to be done with reviewing so many horror movies and move into November ready to tackle… another horror movie. Produced by J.J. Abrams, Overlord was originally rumored to be the fourth Cloverfield film (despite the fact that we had just … Continue reading Movie Reviews: Overlord (2018)
Pek Yakinda (or Coming Soon) may be the only movie ever made where the McGuffin is a DVD copy of Avatar 2. Zafer (Cem Yilmaz, also the movie’s director) makes bootlegs of hot new Hollywood releases with a team of … Continue reading Made Overseas: Pek Yakinda (2014)
It’s film 3 of Hallmark’s Countdown to Christmas and I worry for myself. Today’s film is Road to Christmas. Here’s the crash course: Los Angeles television producer Maggie Baker unwittingly falls for Danny Wise, the son and former producer of … Continue reading Hallmark Christmas: Road to Christmas Recap/Review
Do you like Back to the Future? How about The Notebook? Well, this is neither of those movies. It used to be legally available to stream, but now it is…uh…on the internet. Approximately 112 minutes. Na-Young has secured a free trip … Continue reading WTF ASIA 29: My Mother, the Mermaid (2004)
As steaming services play a bigger and bigger role in the film and television industry, a lot of attention is going to their original content–but mainly streaming television shows. What about streaming movies? What hidden gems or washed up flops … Continue reading The Other Side Of The Wind (Netflix, 2018)
Welcome to my weekly discussion of the animated films of the Walt Disney Studio. I’m proceeding mostly chronologically. The title comes from a quote from Walt, “I never called my work an ‘art’ It’s part of show business, the business … Continue reading Building Entertainment: The Animated Films of the Walt Disney Studio. Wreck-it-Ralph
Welcome to the second review of Hallmark’s Countdown to Christmas film series! It’s called Christmas Joy. Here’s the synopsis: Joy Holbrook is an intuitive market researcher in DC who has captured the attention of the account’s CEO and is about … Continue reading Hallmark Christmas: Christmas Joy Recap/Review
There’s a million points of coverage with the box office and everyone tries to come up with their own quip but largely end up in the same area. The simple truth is that even after the various controversies over Bohemian Rhapsody … Continue reading Box Office: November 2-4
“It’s not meant to be only an uplifting and inspirational piece of literature… I wanted it to be a little scary.” ~ Garrard Conley. Author of Boy Erased. The following review contains mild spoilers and the subject merits a trigger … Continue reading Movie Review: Boy Erased (2018)
It’s time for another round of Muppet Casting, where we take a famous movie and ask, if Jim Henson’s Muppets made their own version of it (in the vein of The Muppet Christmas Carol and Muppet Treasure Island), which Muppets … Continue reading Muppet Casting: Pirates of the Caribbean
10/31/2018 – Grand Finale: A Bay of Blood (1971) Directed by Mario Bava Well it’s finally that time of the year, Halloween. I’ve been celebrating with horror movies all month, but it’s finally time to treat myself for all the writing … Continue reading Month of Horror 2018: A/S/L – Grand Finale: A Bay of Blood
Apologies in advance: I’m going to go all “stereotypical blogger”. This is the part where I tell you a long, rambling story about my boring personal life before I get to the actual movie review. But before I do that… … Continue reading Made Overseas: Dark Water (2002)
Yesterday I got so cold, I felt like I could kill. Available…uh…on the internet, I guess. Amazon Prime is a liar. Approximately 112 minutes. A woman is in what looks like some sort of hospital, and is reading…from the middle … Continue reading WTF ASIA 28: Cure (1997)
It’s time for a special, Halloween edition of Muppet Casting! Normally in these posts, I try to stick to those Muppets who are officially part of the Muppet brand, only dipping into unrelated Jim Henson puppets when necessary. But since … Continue reading Muppet Casting Halloween Special: The Universal Monsters
10/30/2018 – Vietnam: The Housemaid (2016) Directed by Derek Nguyen Our final country and fifty-fifth overall is Vietnam, a country that for most Americans continues to be defined by the Vietnam War. The country itself has long been dominated by censorship … Continue reading Month of Horror 2018: A/S/L – Vietnam: The Housemaid
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