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Two pop culture obsessives who cover film, television, and anything else which piques our geeky interests.
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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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What Will Disney Do When It Runs Out of Classics to Remake?
When Michael Eisner assumed leadership of Disney in the mid 1980s, he gathered together a bunch of the company's creative types - story people, directors, some... Read more
Posted on 15 July 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
304 Days Without a New Marvel Studios Movie: Hollywood’s New Nightmare?
What do movie theaters do when superhero movies aren't around to save the world? I don't know, but we're about to find out because for as much noise as everyon... Read more
Posted on 12 July 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Crawl: They Better Not Kill That Dog!
Crawl has what is to my mind one of the best one-sentence elevator pitches in recent memory: father and daughter fight alligators during a hurricane. As soon... Read more
Posted on 12 July 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Midsommar: What an Experience
2019 has been the year of mega-hyped horror directors taking surprising chances with their sophomore effort. David Robert Mitchell could have done just about... Read more
Posted on 04 July 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Spider-Man: Far From Home: The MCU’s Fun Flex
Every Avengers movie since Age of Ultron has been followed by a lighthearted palette-cleanser. In the past, the lower-stakes, street-level adventures of the... Read more
Posted on 03 July 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
My Thoughts on The Year in Film So Far & Top 15 Favorites
As we pass the halfway point of 2019, I have been pondering the following question: have we seen our first Oscar movie yet? I know the Oscars are an imprecise... Read more
Posted on 02 July 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Digging Up the Marrow Asks What Happens When a Horror Director Meets Real...
How meta is too meta? Digging Up the Marrow - Adam Green's 2015 faux-documentary/found footage flick about a horror director who finally encounters real... Read more
Posted on 01 July 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Yesterday Gets Points for Having Such a Great Idea
Here's what Hollywood looks like in 2019: comic book movies, seriously fatigued blockbuster franchises, family-friendly animation, horror, movies about dogs, an... Read more
Posted on 30 June 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Yesterday Gets Points for Having Such a Great Idea
Here's what Hollywood looks like in 2019: comic book movies, seriously fatigued blockbuster franchises, family-friendly animation, horror, movies about dogs, an... Read more
Posted on 30 June 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Next of Kin: The Aussie Answer to The Shining?
Until recently, if you asked me to tell you about the Australian film industry I'd probably rattle off a list of Hollywood actors (Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman,... Read more
Posted on 29 June 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Finally Watching Danny Boyle’s Sunshine
I never can tell what Danny Boyle is going to direct next. This is the man who followed the grit of Trainspotting with the genre hodge podge and fantasy of A... Read more
Posted on 28 June 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Netflix Is Still Winning
Disney just took Pretty Little Liars away. NBCUniversal is going to take The Office away in a year. WarnerMedia just hired a new boss whose primary asset is tha... Read more
Posted on 27 June 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Annabelle Comes Home: Night at the Haunted Museum
There's something refreshingly and at-times frustratingly old-fashioned and wholesome about The Conjuring Universe movies. None of the rotating cast of director... Read more
Posted on 26 June 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Toy Story 4 Box Office: We Don’t Know How to Talk About Moderate Hits Anymore
It's been interesting reading the headlines of all the weekend box office wrap-ups. "obliterates the competition" read one headline. " latest blockbuster to... Read more
Posted on 24 June 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
If Charlie Brooker Made a Chucky Movie, It’d Look a Lot Like The New Child’s Play
MGM fast-tracked its Child's Play remake into production less than a year ago, failed to get franchise creator Don Mancini's blessing, and had to move forward... Read more
Posted on 22 June 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Toy Story 4 Justifies Its Own Existance
From the moment it was announced, the biggest question about Toy Story 4 has been why? Why do we need another one of these? Now that the film is here, we finall... Read more
Posted on 21 June 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Ranking the Child’s Play Franchise
Originally conceived as a commentary on the toy industry's marketing practices of the 1980s, Child's Play is a franchise which has survived longer than anyone... Read more
Posted on 21 June 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Box Office Aftermath: Godzilla: King of the Monsters
With a purposeful grimace, Warner Bros. chairman Toby Emmerich recently opened up to reporters and let out a terrible sound. His studio, still reeling from the... Read more
Posted on 19 June 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Doctor Sleep’s Kubrick Recreations: Cool Or Overkill?
In an age where some directors make one indie film and jump straight to a $200 million blockbuster, Mike Flanagan's career as a director has evolved in ways we... Read more
Posted on 19 June 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
“Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too”: How Dare Black Mirror Be This Entertaining!
Spoiler warning for Black Mirror Season 5 episode "Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too" "Hologram tours in which dead musicians are brought back to life are going to... Read more
Posted on 17 June 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO