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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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Game of Thrones “Bells”: Not Like This
Cersei Lannister's last ever line in Game of Thrones comes right before her death by collapsed building. Leaning into her brother Jaime's arms while trapped in... Read more
Posted on 13 May 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Detective Pikachu: This Is What It’s Like to Be on the Outside of Something
Well past the halfway point of Detective Pikachu, WB's big-budget adaptation of the long-running Pokemon manga/TV show/card game/video game franchise, Ryan... Read more
Posted on 11 May 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Hustle: Amusing, But Inessential
The Hustle, MGM's gender-swapped spin on Dirty Rotten Scoundrels replacing Michael Caine and Steve Martin with Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson, is the worst thin... Read more
Posted on 10 May 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
About Marvel’s Coming Out Story
"Have you tried not being a mutant?" The setting is the modestly decorated living room of a two-story suburban house somewhere in Boston. A teenage boy sits on ... Read more
Posted on 09 May 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Netflix’s Extremely Wicked… Is Surprisingly Similar to Catch Me If You Can
How do you make a movie about a charming, handsome serial killer's Catch Me If You Can- esque run through and sometimes away from the criminal justice system... Read more
Posted on 08 May 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Reason Behind All Those Disney Release Date Changes
Disney gonna Disney, and with Fox now under the Mouse House's umbrella there was a lot of Disney-ing this morning. The company announced a slew of release date... Read more
Posted on 07 May 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Avengers: Endgame Has Already Topped Avatar in One Key Category
Avengers: Endgame is currently being subsumed into the new national pastime of box office watching: Iron Man, Cap and the rest have toppled just about every... Read more
Posted on 07 May 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Spider-Man: Far From Home Trailer Reaction: Beware New Mentors in Glass Helmets
The Russo Brothers kept saying the ban on Avengers: Endgame spoilers was going to lift today. Anyone who wanted to honor that needed to see Endgame in its... Read more
Posted on 06 May 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
“The Last of the Starks”: Game of Thrones Is Living Up To Its Title
"When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die." That's what Cersei Lannister told Ned Stark way back in the first season of Game of Thrones. She had... Read more
Posted on 06 May 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
How I Celebrated May the Fourth: I Met a Star Wars Newbie
Without even really trying, I met my first Star Wars newbie last night. We sat next to each other at our local symphony orchestra's The Music of Star Wars... Read more
Posted on 05 May 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
In Praise of Dark Night: A True Batman Story
With Warner Bros. putting the original Tim Burton and Joel Schumacher Batman movies back into theaters this month and the comic book unit celebrating the... Read more
Posted on 05 May 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Long Shot is Not the Knocked Up Retread You Might Be Expecting
Released a week after the cultural monolith that is Avengers: Endgame, there is already so much working against Long Shot, chiefly the inescapable deja vu... Read more
Posted on 04 May 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Long Shot is Not the Knocked Up Retread You Might Be Expecting
Released a week after the cultural monolith that is Avengers: Endgame, there is already so much working against Long Shot, chiefly the inescapable deja vu... Read more
Posted on 04 May 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Olivia Wilde’s Booksmart & The Inevitable Superbad Comparisons
Booksmart is, in the most simplistic sense, a female-led version of Superbad, just updated to 2019 norms and written and directed by women. Two close friends tr... Read more
Posted on 04 May 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
15 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Stephen King’s The Stand
I wasn't going to do this, I swear. I just wrote about Desperation, the 2006 TV movie which marked the sad end of Stephen King's relationship with ABC and also... Read more
Posted on 03 May 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Responding to the Various Avengers: Endgame Hot Takes
Every new blockbuster movie gets its own series of hot takes. The bigger the movie, the higher the number of think pieces explaining how what we all just watche... Read more
Posted on 02 May 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Game of Thrones Lighting Debate Highlights a Larger Issue with Prestige TV
The following might feel like film school 101 material, but it's a memo the Game of Thrones people didn't get: there's a significant difference between... Read more
Posted on 01 May 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Game of Thrones, The Long Night & The Spectre of George RR Martin
Game of Thrones "The Long Night" spoilers below So, Winter finally came, and Westeros' key characters escaped from the ordeal with a surprisingly low body count... Read more
Posted on 30 April 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Ramifications of Avengers: Endgame – Spoiler Disucssion
In 2008, The Dark Knight - the most groundbreaking superhero movie anyone had ever seen - allegorically spoke to Bush era concerns like terrorism and personal... Read more
Posted on 28 April 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
In Memorium: Santa Clarita Diet
Normally, when a sitcom makes it to a third season fans can rest easy. Networks are far more likely to cancel something after a first or second season but not... Read more
Posted on 28 April 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO