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Jerome Ranks 2019 Movies (104-70)

I see a lot of movies thanks to AMC A-List and working at a job that allows me to go to Friday matinees. It is a personal challenge to try and rank these films, but I think it’s fun to see 100 or more movies in a given year and challenge myself in this way. Every fictional narrative film is ranked. I do not count documentaries, partially because this hasn’t been a great year for them, and I think it’s difficult to include them. What I’ve realized in organizing this list is there’s a lot of mediocrity among big blockbusters and major franchises, but I think the basement for major studio releases is also a bit higher. Without any further adieu…

104. Hellboy (2/10) Continue reading Jerome Ranks 2019 Movies (104-70)

Flooping The Pig – Episode 12: My Burger’s Dead

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Original Air Date: March 30, 2014

This week the Cool Kids’ start to bring season 2 of Adventure Time to an end by discussing the infrastructure of Ooo and the development of the side characters in Adventure Time. They get distracted with conversations about Snapchat and selfies, not knowing much about raves, mortality in fantasy fiction, and Brooklyn Nine Nine. Continue reading Flooping The Pig – Episode 12: My Burger’s Dead

There Will Be Movies – Episode 5: The Royal Tenenbaums

5) Royal Tenenbaums

Ben Phillips & Matt Waters present 25 of their favourite movies from a given decade, kicking things off with Volume 1: 2000 – 2009.

Finally, a movie by “your barista’s favourite director”, Wes Anderson, that was definitely not a late addition after the list was already locked. There is no way at least one episode had to be re-numbered to accommodate it. Definitely no way. Continue reading There Will Be Movies – Episode 5: The Royal Tenenbaums

8 Questions/Takeaways from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood…

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This is purposely designed to be a casual analysis of the film. More entries like this will hopefully be coming to the website.

1. It’s time for Timothy Olyphant to get his third western television show already.
We’ve had Deadwood and Justified. It’s time to complete the trilogy already. The dude rules. I say just straight up make his third western show a corn-ass old school western set in the mythical “old west.” He proved here he could do it masterfully.

Continue reading 8 Questions/Takeaways from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood…

Top 7 Game of Thrones Characters Who Got Short-Changed

As Game of Thrones comes to an end, Mike and Matt have been rewatching the whole show as we all get ready to say goodbye. As the final episodes air, The Reel World will post several articles reflecting on the experience of being invested in this world for close to a decade.

 

7. Mance Rayder

Continue reading Top 7 Game of Thrones Characters Who Got Short-Changed

Ben & Matt’s Marvellous Journey Episode 8 – Thor: The Dark World

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Bring a duvet and pillows because it’s time to discuss a film that even Thor mega-fan, Matt Waters, would describe as dull. Nevertheless, he and Ben Phillips endeavour to get an hour of fun discussion out of it and are helped out tremendously by the famously troubled production history of the film. Continue reading Ben & Matt’s Marvellous Journey Episode 8 – Thor: The Dark World

The Tape Crusaders: Episode #14 – The Lego Batman Movie 

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Everything is awesome because Mike & Matt have finally gotten to the highly anticipated Lego incarnation of the Dark Knight! Once their totally in-depth point by point breakdown of the movie is done with it’s time for yet another round of shaking our heads at the state of the DC Cinematic Universe now that Ben Affleck is rumoured to be dropping out of The Batman altogether. It’s gonna be fun on the bun! Continue reading The Tape Crusaders: Episode #14 – The Lego Batman Movie