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In the monthly Raspberry Picking column, Mandy Albert works her way through the winners of the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture, deciding whether they deserve to be called the worst movies of all time - or if they’re even bad movies at all! Should you watch them too? Will you enjoy them? C...

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I will say this about Five Nights at Freddy's, an extremely unlikable piece of shit movie whose enormous, instantaneous box-office success has filled me with the gloomy suspicion that we're staring down the gun barrel of a new epoch where the only movies that become hits are the ones that c...

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Sometimes, no matter how much money the studios throw at it, a movie just fails. Sometimes, the studio throws a whole lot of money at it before it becomes clear that's happening. And that's how you get, not merely a garden-variety failure, but a bonafide flop, the sort of horrific financial disast...

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This episode, Carrie and Tim meander their way through the last week's happenings and share about a few good movies a long the way too.  Carrie brings The Animatrix, thanks to Harold Bleacher and Meet Me In St. Louis, thanks to the ever-so kind listener, SpaceIce.  Tim brings a...

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"Every movie's a circus", in the words of a song from the proudly mediocre Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Sunset Blvd. But we're going to be a little bit more selective than that. At the request of Top 5 Circus Movies appeared first on Alternate Ending.

Summer is almost upon us! Indeed with Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3 already in theaters, summer is arguably already here. But there's still lots of weeks of movies to come, with the most fully-stocked calendar of big tentpoles since 2019. To celebrate, we're casting our gaze forward to ...

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One does try to see absolutely everything worth seeing, and sometimes it's suddenly mid-March, and one must admit that one has failed. And since Oscar weekend is pretty much the official end of any given movie year, it felt like I had better hustle up and publish the 90% complete version of my year-...

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A review by M.C. Steffen

Part of giving any movie a fair shake is making an effort to grasp the codes it uses to communicate to its intended audience. In a musical, when characters sing, you’re meant to understand that they’re expressing emotions too overwhelming for mere speech; whe...

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UPDATE, 12/16: Okay, I'm calling it: this is effectively a dead heat between Columbo and Batman: The Animated Series, with Star Trek, Deadwood, and more X-Files in a three-way fight for runner-up. I will say first and foremost that trying to tease...