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The Dark Tower is an adaptation, pseudo-sequel, to Stephen King's series of books of the same name. I have only read the first, of eight, in the series so I know a bit of background, but otherwise I went into this film mostly blind. That said, this was
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Death Note, brought to you by the God known as Netflix (sigh), is an American adaptation of the manga by the same name. In Japan, and around the world, the manga has been loved, popularized, and been adapted into film previously, but not since Ghost in the Shell have we
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Baby Driver is the recent hit success of director Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World) with an exciting soundtrack, popping marketing, and what seems to be an influx of new fans as they discover this really fun flick making waves in the middle
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Doctor Who is a roller coaster of a show, especially for the American side audience. Popularity skyrocketed during the David Tennant and Matt Smith years, but once the 12th Doctor, Peter Capaldi, was announced and entered his freshman year of this monstrous series the hype and enthusiasm behind the show
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Over the last few years critics and fans have argued that we are in another golden age of television, and it's hard to argue that. Shows not on premium networks such as HBO, Showtime, Starz, have upped their stakes and put serious production value into their products. AMC
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Just as Superhero movies are all the rage these days the glory days of the "Creature Feature" was upon the 30s-50s, dominating classic stories such as The Wolfman, Dracula, Creature from the Black Lagoon, and so on. As these films from Universal kept popping up it was only
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Anime fans, like any other fanbase, can be quit particular when a beloved classic in their field gets a remake. Especially a Hollywood remake. The most infamous of anime remakes in Hollywood has to be Dragonball: Evolution. Fans hated it. Critics hated it. Few liked it. It is not hard
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After two months in the theater Beauty and the Beast is still kicking butt at the box office. Families are going to see it numerous times, friends are bringing their friends with them, and overall this movie just feels like a bonding experience that people love to have when visiting
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Start Play Sorry for the late update on this episode, but what can you do when life doesn't give you them lemons, huh? Anywho, we are back just in time for Alien Day, so I hope you all are having a lovely, horrific, Alien Day. I know we
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Start Play On this episode of the Film Assist Podcast Cody is joined by his friend Ryan as they reminesce over one of their favorite film franchises that gave them scares and great ole times. In part 1 they talk about how they came to the Alien franchise, how bad
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With Godzilla and King Kong coming together in another cinematic shared universe, and one that makes sense and has happened briefly before, it was only a matter of time we got King Kong's story retold. Looking back on the King Kong movies that came before this I must
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Before the release of this film Hugh Jackman had, repeatedly, said that this was his last role as Wolverine. He was hanging up the claws, and this would be the capstone to this character's story. I'm sure many people felt skeptical at that, mostly because it&