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Hoosiers is usually used as the benchmark for best movies about basketball. Since its release in 1986 every movie about high school sports is compared to it in some fashion, but especially basketball and rightfully so. It is the quintessential movie about overcoming the odds while becoming a team in order to win it all, […]

Space has long been the final frontier in TV, movies, and even in documentaries. The human fascination with space is a long one with some being more interested than others, but we all wonder what it will take to get further and learn more. In the 1960s the dream was a reality with the Apollo […]

When I saw the title for Netflix’s newest movie pop up I had to determine if it was a comedy or a horror story. Turns out that Uglies is neither and is, in fact a young adult (YA) teen drama based on a book akin to the “Divergent” book series that became movies as well. […]

Yes, Hollywood has a problem finding new ideas and we see that almost yearly. Movies are remade and TV shows are rebooted. Sequels are put out decades later. New spins are put on characters that no one asked for or are out right dismissed. Sometimes these remakes can be made with the right idea in […]

In the 1980s there were a slew of action films where the survival of the main character was based on how well they could survive a string of extreme instances. Most of them starred Arnold, Sly, Van Damme, or Norris showing off their skills or muscles. One of the more thought-provoking ones was The Running […]

Game Of Thrones took the TV world by storm when HBO released it. The numerous characters and their stories became not only stories that a select few got to enjoy, but stories, sayings, and characters that have become part of the pop culture lexicon. It was a great series and made TV production companies have […]

Back in the 1940s a group of singers and actors that spent a good amount of time together on and off screen garnered the nickname of “The Rat Pack”. They were the epitome of cool and were suave at the height of their fame through most of the 1960s. Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., and […]

There are two types of superhero movie fans: those that read all the comic books they spawn from and those that only love the movies. The comic book fans have a much deeper understanding of the characters and their backstory while those that only watch the movies only know the stories that are presented on […]

“Once upon a time…” is a fair way to start any story about princes and princesses, faraway lands, dragons and heroes. It doesn’t matter if the story is basically the same or not. The usual formula has a damsel in distress being rescued by a a noble man and they fall in love and live […]

Remake. Reboot. Sequel. Prequel. Reimagining. These are the buzzwords that Hollywood uses when they put out a movie as part of a franchise. Rehashed. Overdone. Disrespectful. Lazy. And the most popular: why? Those are what potential viewers are likely to say. It’s never surprising when popular movies get sequels or branches off into different stories. […]


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