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“Fantastic Four” Isn’t Terrible, Just Unremarkable
A cursory browse of the Internet suggests that the new Fantastic Four may as well be one of the worst films ever made: an Adam Sandleresque score on Low Hanging Fruit, unusually harsh user rating on the Internet Males Database, and widely reported tales of pro...
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We Were Once A Fairytale: On The Fantastic Four
The story of the Fantastic Four is essentially the story of Icarus. In the ancient version, a young man gifted with wings bound in wax ignores his father’s warnings about straying too close to the sun and plummets into the sea in a rain of melted wax. The Fant...
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LAFF Review: “Snowpiercer” is Spectacularly Off the Rails
Once upon a time, Bong Joon-Ho's ambitious sci-fi action film Snowpiercer was threatened with an Americanized edit by controversial industry magnate Harvey Weinstein. Fans of the Korean auteur (as well as fans of good sci-fi in general) were understandably ver...
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“Filth”: Has Plenty of It And Nothing Else
Telling a story entirely through the perspective of a film’s main character is a tricky proposition if that character is a drug-addled, hallucinating, misogynist wreck of a human being. Such filmmaking is tantamount to daring the audience to endure a high-temp...
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“Nymphomaniac Vol. II” Gives Us The Whole Story And Much More
The problem with the release of Nymphomaniac isn't that it was split into two volumes – it’s that those volumes were released on different days. The idea of splitting a film into multiple volumes, in of itself, is actually an extremely exciting one. Can you im...
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It’s Clobberin Time! Meet the Cast of the new ‘Fantastic Four’
Fox has found the stars needed to reboot the Fantastic Four series. According to THR, Fox is in final negotiations with Miles Teller, Kate Mara, Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Bell to bring the heroes to the big screen once again. Josh Trank, who previously direc...
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New ‘Snowpiercer’ Stills Make Wait for US Release Date So Much Worse
The road to getting a solid US release date for Bong Joon-Ho's Snowpiercer has been a ragged one, with the disgruntled director reportedly battling Harvey Weinstein over what he felt were unnecessary cuts made to the film. But it appears that the saga may fin...
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