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A Star Trek Inside Joke You Might Have Missed Here's a great little inside joke that JJ Abrams put in the new Star Trek flick that you might have missed. It took me a day to get it. Very clever...
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Top 11 Baddest Killer Robots in Film! Most of us would agree that the bare-endoskeletal Terminators and all of its other models are probably the baddest killer robots of them all, so in honor of them...
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The Director's Cut of Clive Barker's Nightbreed There is really a chance that this can actually happen!
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10 MOVIES DESIGNED TO OFFEND YOUR RELIGION (Part 1) Movies don’t try to please everyone. Tailor-made for certain demographics, some filmmakers try to entertain or provoke discussion, knowing full well...
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10 MOVIES DESIGNED TO OFFEND YOUR RELIGION (Part 2) Movies don’t try to please everyone. Tailor-made for certain demographics, some filmmakers try to entertain or provoke discussion, knowing full well...
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Action Flick Chick’s Zombie Survival Guide for a Small Town Dark Side here. The Action Flick Chick has been so kind as to write an article specifically for The Small Town Critic. This subject is very...
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Most anticipated films of the 1st Quarter of 2018…
1. “Molly's Game” (Jan. 5) – Written and Directed by Aaron Sorkin, this true story focuses on Molly Bloom (Jessica Chastain) who was targeted by the FBI for running the most exclusive high stakes poker...
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BLACK MIRROR season 4 is the best season yet…
by Coop Cooper The Netflix sci-fi anthology series “Black Mirror”, which focuses on how future technology could damage humankind, has arguably become the most culturally important show of its type...
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DARKEST HOUR is a triumph while THE SHAPE OF WATER is an overrated, preachy...
by Coop Cooper “The Shape of Water” - In early 1960's Baltimore, a mute cleaning lady named Elisa (Sally Hawkins) works at a top secret government facility that soon acquires a new asset, a...
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In 2018, when the media, politics and Hollywood morals are in the toilet,...
by Coop Cooper In the early 1970's, with the Vietnam War still in progress, the official world from the U.S. Government was that the situation was improving. Military analyst Daniel Ellsberg, working...
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Predictable 2018 Oscar nominees are largely disappointing…
by Coop Cooper The Oscar nominations are in and there are very few surprises this year. Here are the nominees for the bigger categories and my thoughts on the choices made by the Academy...
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New “X-Files” episode highlights scary modern concept…
by Coop Cooper In the mid-nineties, “The X-Files” was my favorite TV show. It became a cultural zeitgeist so quickly that it eclipsed all similar shows that came before it, including the ones that...
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THE CLOVERFIELD PARADOX came out of nowhere and we are lucky to have it…
by Coop Cooper Formerly titled “God Particle”, “The Cloverfield Paradox” was scheduled to arrive in theaters in February 2017, then October 2017, then it was pushed back to April 2018. There were...
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Is romance dead in Hollywood?
by Coop Cooper With Valentines Day falling on this week, many people are making plans with their significant others and some will likely watch a romantic comedy on cable or possibly go to a theater to...
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BLACK PANTHER is a game-changer for Hollywood…
by Coop Cooper I was confident that “Black Panther” would be another win for Marvel Comics films and I thought it might make some sort of cultural impact, but little did I know it would become a...
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MUTE is a disastrous misstep for Duncan Jones and an embarrassment for Netflix…
by Coop Cooper I used to claim that there was no difference between “Blade Runner” and 1950's detective 'film noir' stories, other than this particular story was told in a futuristic setting. I now...
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It wouldn’t be the Oscars without controversy: The 2018 Academy Awards…
by Coop Cooper The 2018 Academy Awards are now over and now folks are talking about what did and didn't happen during the awards ceremony. Shade against Mario Lopez (?), Hooters, Mel Gibson, and Harvey...
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ICARUS, VERONICA, THE OUTSIDER and JESSICA JONES: SEASON 2 Netflix reviews…
by Coop Cooper “Jessica Jones: Season 2” - Now infamous for killing Kilgrave (David Tennant) and saving citizens from his mind-control reign of terror, Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter) tries to run her...
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“#WarGames” is NOT the future of movies or video games…
by Coop Cooper The 1983 Academy Award-winning thriller “WarGames” has earned a place in cinema history as not only a beloved film of its time, but also as a dire warning about nuclear weapons and the...
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I KILL GIANTS will either become the sleeper hit of the year, or a cult...
by Coop Cooper Based on the graphic novel by Joe Kelly (who also wrote the screenplay), “I Kill Giants” released quietly online on March 23rd and could be a sleeper hit if seen by the right audience,...
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READY PLAYER ONE is a sci-fi nerd’s dream come true…
by Coop Cooper Based on the best-selling novel by Ernest Cline,“Ready Player One” might be one of the biggest crowdpleasers of the year, but for me, it was a cinema event unlike anything I had ever...
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A QUIET PLACE is a competent and tense thriller, but not as original as...
by Coop Cooper Most successful modern horror films have a gimmick. When “Halloween” (1978) came on the scene, it spawned an entire generation of slasher movies. When “The Blair Witch Project” (1999)...
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LOST IN SPACE on Netflix is the best version so far of the classic franchise…
by Coop Cooper Twelve years before “Star Wars” hit theaters and one year before the original “Star Trek” series, “Lost in Space” premiered on TV and ran for three seasons. In 1998, an underrated...
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THE AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR is a thrilling comic book epic 10 years in the...
by Coop Cooper “Avengers: Infinity War” is the culmination of 10 years of preparation by Marvel Studios and Disney to create a sprawling franchise that climaxes in a giant crossover film featuring all...
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COBRA KAI is finally the sequel that KARATE KID fans deserve, and then some…
by Coop Cooper “The Karate Kid” was one of the biggest sensations of the 1980's. It spawned three lesser sequels, a cartoon, a remake and remains a pop culture phenomenon after all of these years. Now,...
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DEADPOOL 2 not as good as the first, but is still a funny, action-packed ride…
by Coop Cooper Wade Wilson, a.k.a. Deadpool goes on a quest to save a troubled and destructive young mutant named Russell (Julian Dennison) from death or permanent incarceration. On Russell's trail is...
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