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Review: STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON (2015)
Exactly 1/2 of F. Gary Gray's STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON is thrilling, top-tier musical/biopic entertainment. It crackles with near-literal electricity from the first scenes...
IN BOB WE TRUST: "Fantastic Four Sucks ...Now What?"
The first episode of our now-official full-series pickup through 2016 with ScrewAttack!...
Six Months Later, I Am Alive
So. Today is exactly six months to the day that I was abruptly, without forewarning (rudely and rather unprofessionally, actually, now that I reflect on it) informed that...
Incomplete Thoughts on STONEWALL
This piece and others like it are made possible by The MovieBob Patreon. Please take a moment and consider becoming a Patron. One has to imagine that Roland Emmerich is...
Life Goals
What's this? Oh, nothing - just a write-up about/interview-with yours truly in THE NEW YORKER - only one of the most respected publications... pretty much ever, really.Do...
Review: VACATION (2015)
This review made possible in part by The MovieBob Patreon.Despite the knowing self-mockery already displayed in the trailers, I feel like a certain amount of the new VACATION's...
Review: TERMINATOR GENISYS
Because YOU demanded it!P.S. "The MovieBob Patreon" - maybe you've heard of i...
Michael Bay's BENGHAZI Movie. Yes, For Real.
This piece made possible in part by The MovieBob PatreonFor my international readers: American politics is still currently consumed by conspiracy theories surrounding...
PIXELS (2015) Review: TEXT-VERSION:
Because you demanded it, here (after the jump) a text version of my now-famous PIXELS review. And hey, while you're here, maybe consider visiting The MovieBob Patreon?I…...
Pitch Me, Mr. B: MARVEL'S X-MEN
This piece made possible in part by The MovieBob Patreon. Please consider becoming a Patron.In case you missed the earlier installments of this: Here's what's up, here's...
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Time To Light The Lights.
This is the "pilot pitch" for the upcoming ABC prime-time revival of THE MUPPET SHOW. It represents probably the best use anyone has made of these characters since at least...
Did I Just See What I Think I Saw in ANT-MAN? (UPDATED!)
So. Just saw ANT-MAN for a second time, just because. Hold's up - this one really works. Not GUARDIANS-level transcendent, but really good.Anyway! Long story short: By now you've heard that there's quite a bit of Universe-building business sprinkled throughout this one - multiple cameos, two post-credits beats and a no-name name-drop. But on my second viewing, I'm reasonably certain I caught a glimpse of something that's either...
Suicide Is Painless
If there's ONE reason to be excited about comic-book continuity being a "movie thing" now, outside of just "because it can be," it's that the medium is rife with great material...