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THE MIST television remake pilot stumbles, but GLOW on Netflix is a sensation...
by Coop Cooper “The Mist” (Thursdays @ 9pm Central on Spike) – Based on the novella by Stephen King, “The Mist” tells the story of a traditional small town in Maine enveloped by an ominous fog full of...
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BABY DRIVER, best movie of the year so far?…
by Coop Cooper Baby (Ansel Elgort) is a savant genius at driving cars. Orphaned at a young age, he boosted the car of the dangerous gangster, Doc (Kevin Spacey), who recognized his special talent. Now...
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SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING is fun, different and fully integrated into the Marvel...
by Coop Cooper “Spider-Man: Homecoming” (Now in theaters) – After helping Iron Man tip the scales in “Captain America: Civil War”, 15 year-old Peter Parker (Tom Holland) expects to be immediately...
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Is Blomkamp’s ‘Oats Studios’ the next big change in film?
by Coop Cooper In the new internet age of media, professional filmmakers have been trying new ideas in order to take advantage of the fact that anyone can post a high-quality video online almost...
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OZARK is Netflix’s answer to BREAKING BAD and it’s a winner…
by Coop Cooper Once again, Netflix has proven its dominance with yet another outstanding original TV series called “Ozark” that will appeal to a wide audience and may pick up a few awards along the...
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Should ‘fan films’ be illegal?…
by Coop Cooper Fan films – or films based on popular established film and TV franchise properties – have been around a lot longer than the internet. For example, in the early 80's a group of teenage...
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ATOMIC BLONDE is below average, so does that mean “Deadpool 2” is in trouble?…
by Coop Cooper In 1989 right before the fall of the Berlin Wall, the British secret service tasks agent Lorraine Broughton (Charlize Theron) to secure a list of the names of Soviet double agents in...
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Most anticipated films of the 2nd half of 2017…
by Coop Cooper 1. “It” (Sept. 8) – Based off of the notoriously frightening Stephen King novel, a group of teenage friends are targeted by a monster disguised as a sinister clown (Bill Skarsgard) who...
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Is MoviePass worth it for you?…
by Coop Cooper It sounds too good to be true, having the option to watch unlimited movies at at theater for only $9.95 a month. That's exactly what Mitch Lowe, one of the founders of Netflix, is...
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THE HITMAN’S BODYGUARD won’t resurrect an antiquated genre…
by Coop Cooper Here's a movie genre you don't see much anymore these days: The action buddy comedy. In the 80's and 90's, this was one of the highest-grossing genres in Hollywood. Franchises like...
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TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN, When your favorite TV show leaves you with no...
by Coop Cooper I was dreading watching the series finale of “Twin Peaks: The Return” on Sunday night. Not because I didn't want to see what would happen, but because I was deathly afraid of what MIGHT...
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“It: Chapter One” will go down as one of the best Stephen King adaptations…
by Coop Cooper I never thought Stephen King's infamous novel “It” needed a second screen adaptation since the 1990 TV miniseries was sufficiently entertaining and scary. However, this new adaptation...
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AMERICAN VANDAL on Netflix is a clever satire about invasive serial...
by Coop Cooper Even with its outrageous premise, “American Vandal” might fool a few people – at first – into thinking its actually a documentary thriller such as “Making a Murderer” or the hit podcast...
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Is THE ORVILLE more “Trek” than STAR TREK: DISCOVERY?…
by Coop Cooper “Star Trek: Discovery” (CBS All-Access, Sundays at 8:30 Central) - One decade before the Kirk/Spock era of “Trek”, First Officer Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) finds herself in...
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The INHUMANS series on ABC might be Marvel’s most costly fiasco…
by Coop Cooper Before I can even explain the wacky plot of “Inhumans”, I need to go into who they are and how they fit into the Marvel Universe... Sometime in the distant past, highly evolved humans...
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BLADE RUNNER 2049 is a worthy predecessor to the original because it is...
by Coop Cooper Considered one of the greatest science fiction films of all time, the original “Blade Runner” (1982) starred Harrison Ford as a policeman in 2019 Los Angeles assigned to seek and gun...
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MINDHUNTER on Netflix has a terrible title, but is fit to binge…
by Coop Cooper Based on the nonfiction book about the life of FBI agent John E. Douglas, “Mindhunter” follows Holden Ford (Jonathan Groff), an FBI agent in the the 'Behavioral Science Unit' in the late...
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HAPPY DEATH DAY is a good retro-slasher flick but Stephen King’s “1922”...
by Coop Cooper “Happy Death Day” (now in theaters) - Tree Gelbman (Jessica Rothe) is a selfish, mean sorority girl at a Louisiana college who spends her semesters getting drunk and sleeping with random...
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STRANGER THINGS: SEASON 2 brings the same great 80’s nostalgia with mediocre...
by Coop Cooper This season picks up nearly a year after the last one ended. Still traumatized from being trapped in the 'Upside Down' dimension, Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) has visions of a gigantic,...
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THOR: RAGNAROK would have been perfect if it could have tied up a few...
by Coop Cooper Compelled by the grim, apocalyptic vision he had during “Avengers: Age of Ultron”, Thor (Chris Hemsworth) has been traveling the Nine Realms in order to prevent ‘Ragnarok’, or the...
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