Lin-Manuel Miranda can write an earworm for the ages, as anyone who has had the Hamilton soundtrack lodged in their head for weeks, can attest to. In Vivo, music and in particular, the musical culture …
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Top 10 Lists
Predicting the Top 10 Movies at the 2021 Summer Box Office
by Brennan Dubéby Brennan DubéFor almost all of 2020, and a good portion of 2021 so far, cinemas across the World were shuttered. While a few markets were able to avoid the long struggles of the pandemic and thrive …
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Reviews
The Prospects of a Live-Action ‘Into the Spider-Verse’ Movie
by Cammy Maddenby Cammy MaddenIt’s very easy to lose yourself in a great movie. This is even truer when movies join together to form a movie universe: a movieverse. Regardless of your opinion of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), …
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We’re well into quarantine, and now movies that were supposed to come out in the prime summer months are all starting to push back their release dates. The last week saw Top Gun: Maverick, The …
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Action/AdventureReviews
I Tried to Find Good Things in ‘Charlie’s Angels’
by Kali Tuttleby Kali TuttleI had no intention of seeing Charlie’s Angels. I’ve never seen a full episode of the original TV show nor have I seen any of the movies. It’s not the type of movie that appeals to me. …
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Retrospectives
‘Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs’ is Actually Really Funny
by Kali Tuttleby Kali TuttleIt’s been a while since I last watched Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009), but I genuinely don’t remember it being as funny as it is. I rewatched it today thinking that I would have to …
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PodcastsThe MovieBabble Podcast
Sony and Marvel Studios File for Divorce While ‘Angel Has Fallen’, ‘Overcomer’, and ‘Ready or Not’ Open Up on Pace (The MovieBabble Podcast Ep. 33)
In one of the most adequate weekend’s at the box office this year, all three new releases perform neither poorly nor greatly. Angel Has Fallen opened up almost exactly in line with London has Fallen. Overcomer finds its …
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You’ve heard it time and time again: “Blade Runner was a flop in theaters”, “no one liked The Thing when it first came out”, “The Shawshank Redemption was a belated classic,” etc. The hard, well-known …
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PodcastsThe MovieBabble Podcast
Ranking All the Spider-Man Films (MovieBabble Presents: Babble With Brennan Ep. 2)
by Brennan Dubéby Brennan DubéMovieBabble’s Babble With Brennan returns with its second episode. This week, host Brennan Dubé and guest Collin Willis each offer their rankings of the Spider-Man films. With the recent release of Spider-Man: Far From Home …
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Two years ago, Spider-Man: Homecoming gave us a true taste as to what this universe’s bleak Spider-Man had to offer. That’s right, I say ‘bleak’ because the character wasn’t Spider-Man; the movie changed too many …
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When it comes to villains, most superheros have just one or two iconic enemies. However, there are two heroes who have a plethora of baddies almost as iconic as they are. I’m talking, of course, …
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ReviewsScience Fiction
Film Review – Men In Black: International (2019)
by Olaf Lesniakby Olaf LesniakToday I’m here to review a movie no one asked for. Not a single soul. Don’t get me wrong, Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson is a match we’ve seen work before, and the Men In …
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It’s finally time for another generic horror film. Sony Pictures and Screen Gems bring us a twist on the home invader concept in The Intruder. Imagine if the creep stalking your home was the ex-owner …
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So “Bala” translates to “Bullet” in English. That’s right, Columbia Pictures released a hard-edged, tough as nails crime thriller entitled Miss Bullet. Shoosh, these jokes write themselves, don’t they? Did Roger Corman secretly make this film? …
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There’s nothing that annoys me more than useless controversy. In a world that’s stacked with all manner of ridiculous injustices, some right in the open, we shouldn’t get worked up over a pointless Ghostbusters remake. …
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Throughout history we’ve seen our fair share of dog-centric films. Hollywood knows that we love dogs, and they have absolutely no problem capitalizing on it. A Dog’s Way Home marks the latest dog movie, and the second …
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Spider-Man films have a history of being hit or miss. As long as Sony as it at the wheel, the quality of these films will continue to vary across the board. When Sony first announced …
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Rankings
Ranking Every ‘Spider-Man’ and ‘Venom’ Movie from Worst to Best [Watch]
by Nick Kushby Nick KushVenom is one of those movies that comes around every so often that polarizes critics and fans. If you would happen to flip over to Rotten Tomatoes (please do AFTER you check out all the content you …
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Venom is one of the down-right coolest comic book characters of all time. His status as an icon is almost to the level of villains such as the Joker and Lex Luthor. After a botched …
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The new The Girl in the Spider’s Web trailer has dropped. It’s sloppy, unschooled and throws into sharp relief every weakness that the impeccable first trailer succeeded in concealing. Here are the most immediate problems. Point …
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After expanding wide into theaters following a limited release last weekend, Searching has become a late-summer, sleeper hit of sorts. Given its buzzy premise and presentation (that being a crime thriller that takes place completely on a …
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Slenderman is perhaps better known as a terror-inducing game that starts the player off in the woods with a torch and only one objective: finding 8 pieces of paper. The catch? These 8 drawings (presumably …
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Whether you like it or not, Hotel Transylvania is becoming a sneakily successful franchise, zooming forward with its third film Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation which has already proved as a profitable venture for Sony’s animation arm after just …
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Arguably one of the best things for a film studio is to see the sequel to one of their films vastly outperform the original. For Sony, this was the case from Hotel Transylvania to Hotel Transylvania 2 as …
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Reviews
‘Sicario: Day of the Soldado’ and the Growing List of Sequels that Forget Their Roots
by Nick Kushby Nick KushHot take right off the bat: Sicario is one of the best movies of the 2010’s. Denis Villeneuve’s sure direction powered the 2015 thriller to some haunting heights, showing the grey area that comes with fighting against …
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Following an incredibly successful limited release run in 2017 that culminated in a nomination in the most recent Academy Awards in the category of Best Foreign Language Film, Loveless finally opened in select theaters in the United …
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Since the success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Sony decided to collaborate with Disney and implement Spider-Man to join the sandbox. This hasn’t stopped Sony from still trying to do their own thing. In fact, their …
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On this day, 16 years ago, Spider-Man was released in theaters! Everyone from kids to adults were ready to see this well-known Marvel hero on the big screen for the first time ever, and the …