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We Minored In Film
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We are two pop culture obsessives whose passion and level of knowledge for all things pop culture outweighs our academic credentials, and We Minored In Film is our effort to cover all things near and dear to our geeky hearts. Regular Features on the site include discussions of particularly amazing scenes from films and episodes from television shows and transcribed conversations in which we debate the merits of a pop culture topic of our choosing. Plus, there are lists - lots of lists.
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Becoming the Hero She Already Thinks You Are: Fathers & Daughters In the...
In 2006, Marvel Studios went independent, secured a ton of funding to finance multiple big budget comic book movies, and hired Jon Favreau to bring Iron Man to... Read more
Posted on 08 January 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Horror, Young Adult & Faith-Based: The Most Profitable Movies of 2014
Well, that’s just silly, calling an article “The Most Profitable Movies of 2014.” We have no idea how profitable movies actually are because we’re missing too... Read more
Posted on 07 January 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
I’ve Only Know Him From the Cartoons – Does X-Men’s Gambit Really Deserve His Ow...
Once upon a time, everything I knew about the X-Men came from the old Saturday morning cartoon that ran on Fox Kids from 1992-1997. Read more
Posted on 07 January 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Whatever Happened to Samantha Barks? She Was So Good As Eponine In Les...
There were three new major movie musicals released last year, two of which are still in theaters (Annie, Into the Woods), and there are at least two due out in... Read more
Posted on 06 January 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Box Office: Hobbit, Into the Woods & Unbroken Again Rule in a Surprisingly Stron...
This continues to be a better Holiday season than expected, with the box office for New Year’s weekend up 6% over the same frame in 2014. Read more
Posted on 05 January 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Why It’s Both Totally Fine & Totally Terrible That 90% of Guardians of the Galax...
During his commentary with co-writer Drew Goddard on the Iron Man 3 Blu-Ray, director/writer Shane Black repeatedly jokes that while making the movie he would... Read more
Posted on 03 January 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Moment You Realize You’ve Seen Something So Many Times That Re-Watching It I...
A strange thing happened to me the other night. I had just finished my trivia article about Friends, which you can read elsewhere on the site, to celebrate its... Read more
Posted on 03 January 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
25 Stories from the Set of Friends, In Their Own Words
I’m the guy who will still quote Ross from Friends and cry out, “Pivot! Piv-Ot!” whenever I help people move. I’ll also probably throw in a bit of Joey’s... Read more
Posted on 01 January 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Mini-Reviews of Every New Movie I Saw in 2014
The other day, a friend asked me to name my favorite films of the year, framing it as, “What films did you love this year?” I honestly had to stop and think... Read more
Posted on 01 January 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
15 Interesting Stories from the Set of Christmas Vacation, In Their Own Words
I didn’t watch Christmas Vacation this Christmas season. That doesn’t mean it wasn’t a part of my Christmas. Every time my older brother got a text message on... Read more
Posted on 31 December 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
What Happens If It Turns Out North Korea Had Nothing To Do With The Sony Hack?
I’m about to spoil the first episode of BBC’s brilliant Twilight Zone-for-the-social-media-era series Black Mirror. You’ve been warned. Oh, also, I will... Read more
Posted on 30 December 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Box Office: Hobbit, Unbroken & Into the Woods Lead the Charge in the Highest...
This has just been a crap year for movies at the box office, with year-to-year box office expected to be down 5%. That’s what makes it so refreshing that the... Read more
Posted on 29 December 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Batman 75: How Batman Returns Pissed Off McDonald’s & Cost Tim Burton His Job
Tim Burton recently told Yahoo Screen that he was kicked off the Batman franchise after Batman Returns because he had pissed off McDonald’s. That’s actually a... Read more
Posted on 27 December 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Roberto Orci is Out, Justin Lin is In, But Does It Really Matter Who Directs Sta...
So, Roberto Orci is out, Justin Lin is in, and we have a release date, July 8, 2016. That’s where we’re at with Star Trek 3 now. Read more
Posted on 24 December 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
AMC’s New Movie Pass Program & 4 Other Ways Theaters Are Trying to Rejuvenate...
Do you remember The Majestic? It’s that Jim Carrey movie made by a post-Green Mile, pre-Walking Dead Frank Darabont. It was actually Darabont’s first film not... Read more
Posted on 23 December 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Box Office: The Hobbit: Battle of Five Armies Dominates Despite Not Quite...
Here’s what happened at the box office this weekend: The Battle of the Five Armies dominated despite not quite returning to the Hobbit franchise highs of... Read more
Posted on 21 December 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Interview: What Else Could Sony Pictures Have Done? What Happens Next?
You know how when a parent says “I’m not mad; I’m just disappointed” that’s code for “Super mad!” That’s how President Barack Obama sounded earlier today when h... Read more
Posted on 20 December 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
No More Mr. (Kind Of) Bad Guy – Exploring the Heroes and Anti-Heroes of The Flas...
Remember how for around a 3-month period late last year you simply could not escape Fox’s incessant advertising for its new Greg Kinnear drama Rake? Read more
Posted on 19 December 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
All Of This Over The Interview?: The Sony Hack’s Not Funny Anymore
UPDATE – Literally within minutes of me posting this article the headline came through that Sony has officially canceled the theatrical release of The Interview. Read more
Posted on 17 December 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Box Office: So, Is Exodus: Gods and Kings Already a Failure?
I could imagine someone looking at the $24.5m Exodus: Gods and Kings just made and thinking it was clearly not great but not altogether bad. Surely it’s going t... Read more
Posted on 15 December 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO