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As counterintuitive as it sounds, there is only one way to make a great Superman movie, and that's to make a movie about someone other than Superman. Let me try to explain.
- By Soren Bowie
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- May 14, 2013
There are times when a big-budget movie has incredibly specific similarities to some more obscure work, to the point that it's really hard to swallow that it could be coincidence.
- By Aaron Short
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- May 13, 2013
Sometimes Batman's a weird super-strong baby with a grown-up brain who fights crime in Mickey Mouse pants.
- By Chris Sims
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- May 11, 2013
Horror is, perhaps more than any other genre, often dissatisfying. Every year the same old monsters slouch into theaters.
- By Brendan McGinley
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- May 08, 2013
The more I thought about it, the more I realized that the reason certain shows get confused in my head isn't because I watch too much television; it's that television isn't different enough.
- By Daniel O'Brien
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- May 03, 2013
Sometimes the characters in these movies seem to know less about what they're doing than we do, and for every sensible decision they make, they stumble through a series of catastrophically terrible blunders that defy explanation.
- By J.F. Sargent
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- May 03, 2013
[WARNING: SPOILERS!]
- By Brendan Bourque-Sheil, Daniel Crow
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- May 02, 2013
Heroic movie characters stand up for what they feel is right, and they stick to those beliefs until it's inconvenient not to.
- By J.F. Sargent
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- May 01, 2013
Bad news: The explosion of big-budget superhero movies is a bubble that seems poised to burst. How do we know? Because it's happened before.
- By J.F. Sargent
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- April 29, 2013
The Internet has overlooked one key group of comic book films: the best worst movies. Good thing I wrote this article to fix that
- By Felix Clay
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- April 26, 2013
Thankfully, someone decided to change them to keep people from sobbing through several traffic lights on their way home from the theater.
- By Robin Warder
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- April 26, 2013
- By Daniel O'Brien, Mike Dillon
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- April 19, 2013
Authority figures, from police departments to federal agencies, aren't known for making the wisest decisions in movies. In fact, some of them are bafflingly stupid.
- By Robin Warder
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- April 19, 2013
You can watch all of these right now, for free, and in less time than it takes to rub one out! Which I assume you terribly literal bastards will take as a personal challenge.
- By Robert Brockway
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- April 17, 2013
Some characters are so bizarre, improbable, or flat-out impossible that you have to wonder how their creators ever came up with them. In a surprising amount of cases, the answer is that they didn't.
- By Sammy Trujillo
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- April 17, 2013
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