movie reviews

Reviewing Movies Like it’s 1999: THE IRON GIANT, MYSTERY MEN, and RUNAWAY BRIDE 0
- Film/TV
- August 30, 2021
For this Reviewing Movies Like It’s 1999 article I paired a couple of movies rooted in comic book/ superhero storytelling and a Rom Com that I promised my wife we would check out… I decided to watch The Iron Giant (released August 6, 1999) with my two year old kid. Usually (and depressingly) he isn’t
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Reviewing Movies Like it’s 1999: THE SIXTH SENSE, BOWFINGER, and NOWHERE TO HIDE 0
- Film/TV
- August 25, 2021
The summer release schedule during the “best year of movies” was very crowded. Which isn’t surprising given that July/ August are some of the peak movie going months of the year. Well… used to be I guess- before the “end times” and all. Point being, summer is usually when Hollywood releases most of its high profile
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Reviewing Movies Like it’s 1999: LAKE PLACID and DEEP BLUE SEA 0
- Film/TV
- August 4, 2021
There are a lot of movies I could be talking about to finish up the Reviewing Movies like it’s 1999 column for July. Some of the biggest hits of that year were released in that time frame including the “peak popularity” Adam Sandler starring vehicle Big Daddy; the “Porky’s for the 90s” sex comedy American
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Reviewing Movies Like it’s 1999: BLAIR WITCH PROJECT and EYES WIDE SHUT 0
- Film/TV
- July 28, 2021
In the “best year of movies” there were three flicks that would come to represent the cultural zeitgeist of 1999. The Matrix (I discussed back in March), The Phantom Menace (for which I contributed my own piece of “internet rant” back in May), and The Blair Witch Project (released July 30, 1999). It could be argued
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Reviewing Movies Like it’s 1999: RUN LOLA RUN and WILD WILD WEST 0
- Film/TV
- June 17, 2021
Welcome to another Reviewing Movies Like it 1999 where today we’re chatting about the stylistically hyperkinetic Run Lola Run (released in the U.S. on June 18th ’99) and the train-wreck summer blockbuster Wild Wild West (released June 30th). So let’s get to it… Every so often a movie comes along with a high concept that can be
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Reviewing Movies Like it’s 1999: PHANTOM MENACE and NOTTING HILL 0
- Film/TV
- May 19, 2021
It’s exhausting to be even the most casual of Star Wars fans. I think a lot of this collective grief can be traced back to the release of The Phantom Menace on May 19, 1999. Granted, the highly anticipated and “many years later” follow up to the groundbreaking trilogy was almost preordained to be the highest
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