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This Is the End

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent movie review: Cage, staged

Thu, Apr 21, 2022
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Amusing but instantly forgettable, fueled by a self-congratulatory smugness and self-reference. The best bits are the sincere stuff: a scene-stealing Pedro Pascal and a sweetly vulnerable Nic(k) Cage.

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The Big Sick movie review: girlfriend in a coma, the rom-com

Fri, Jul 28, 2017
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A rom-com for people who hate rom-coms. A painfully funny movie, full of enrapturing emotion that captures the glorious contradictions of all kinds of love.

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2014 preview: only movies left underived

Wed, Jan 15, 2014
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Here are the few films coming in 2014 that are not sequels, remakes, reboots, or based on a stage show, the Bible, young-adult novels, comic books, cartoons, or — someone make it stop — toy lines.

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things wot we learned from the 2013 summer movies

Fri, Aug 30, 2013
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Have you been paying attention to what the movies have been saying — what the movies have really been saying — all summer? Here’s a refresher.

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most popular posts on FlickFilosopher week of Jun 15-21 2013

Sun, Jun 23, 2013
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which celebrities would survive which kind of apocalypse?

Mon, Jun 10, 2013
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Does Matthew McConaughey’s full-body drawl doom him in the fast-zombie uprising? Will Ryan Gosling survive global warming because he’s totally hot already?

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This Is The End review: supergood

Sun, Jun 09, 2013
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I died laughing… and I’ve found a new respect for a Hollywood posse whose work I mostly haven’t enjoyed before.

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This Is the End greenband trailer: because the redband spoils too much

Thu, May 30, 2013
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I’ve often found myself wondering, Which celebrities would survive the Apocalypse? Now we know.

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