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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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The Way Back: Ben Affleck Exorcises Some Demons in a Career-Best Performance
The Way Back is a sports movie that dares to keep going beyond the big game. It also features Ben Affleck at his most vulnerable and transparent. Many actors... Read more
Posted on 07 March 2020 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Blood & Flesh: David Gregory’s Al Adamson Retrospective Turns Into a True Crime...
David Gregory's new documentary - Blood Flesh: The Reel Life Ghastly Death of Al Adamson - has a killer hook. Basically, ever hear the one about the horror... Read more
Posted on 07 March 2020 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
MGM Moved Bond. Disney Is Standing Pat with Mulan. No One Knows What Happens...
Bond is on the move, Mulan is staying put, and regardless of the positive spin from industry insiders and theater owners, no one really knows what happens... Read more
Posted on 06 March 2020 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Tao of Bob: Making Sense of Iger’s Big Move
The entire entertainment industry was caught flat-footed last week when Bob Iger suddenly called it quits on his time as Disney CEO and appointed a replacement ... Read more
Posted on 05 March 2020 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Lady in White: How Frank LaLoggia Conquered Armageddon & the Stock Market to Mak...
For many members of the home video generation, Lady in White - a 1988 coming-of-age story about kids, ghosts, and small-town racism, the triple threat - is a... Read more
Posted on 27 February 2020 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Togo & Call of the Wild: Disney Has It Both Ways
Like many others, I read Jack London's 1903 short novel Call of the Wild in school in my pre-teen years. In my head, I never pictured Harrison Ford as John... Read more
Posted on 23 February 2020 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Downhill: How Quickly Movies Die on the Vine
Downhill - Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Will Ferrell's remake of Swedish writer/director Ruben Ostlund's 2014 breakout comedy Force Majeure - has been savaged by... Read more
Posted on 22 February 2020 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Sonic the Hedgehog: From Internet Cautionary Tale to Record-Setting Film
From Paramount's point of view, is a nostalgia play and/or a kid play at launching a new film franchise, but what if you don't have much nostalgia for the littl... Read more
Posted on 19 February 2020 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Hitcher: How to Cope with Fridging
Spoilers For The Hitcher Below Don't you just hate it when bad narrative decisions happen to otherwise good movies? Whether its Source Code losing complete trac... Read more
Posted on 13 February 2020 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Oscars 2020 Reaction: Hope Restored?
In a field that included an ode to Hollywood, a Scorsese gangster picture, a period piece drama, a sports movie starring two big movie stars, and both a WWI... Read more
Posted on 10 February 2020 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Box Office: Birds of Prey, Black Christmas & The Get Woke, Go Broke Movement
At least for now, Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) is the rare comic book movie to misfire at the box office, coming in 24%... Read more
Posted on 09 February 2020 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Birds of Prey Resurrects Harley Quinn from Suicide Squad’s Ashes
I've always had a fondness for the Harley Quinn character. From her Batman: The Animated Series origins to roles in Gotham video games and an array of comic... Read more
Posted on 08 February 2020 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Oscars 2020 Predictions
At the start of this particular awards season, it seemed completely etched in stone that this was all going to boil down to Tarantino's mid-life crisis film (... Read more
Posted on 07 February 2020 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Gentlemen: Guy Ritchie’s “One For Me”
The Gentlemen is regressive, possibly racist, occasionally hard to understand, and stuffed to the gills with very famous people making some bizarre acting... Read more
Posted on 29 January 2020 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Turning: Mackenzie Davis Deserves Better
When I see a movie as confounding as The Turning - Floria Sigismondi's long-delayed adaptation of Henry James' The Turn of the Screw - I immediately turn... Read more
Posted on 26 January 2020 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
I’m All In On Star Trek: Picard
Star Trek fans - as they have been ever since J.J. Abrams and collaborators introduced something called the "Kelvin" timeline - seem torn. The " Wagon Train in... Read more
Posted on 24 January 2020 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
What It Feels Like to Listen to a Director’s Commentary in a Packed Movie Theater
My stepfather once watched an entire movie without realizing he'd accidentally switched the audio on the DVD to the Director's Commentary track. "What'd you... Read more
Posted on 24 January 2020 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Box Office: Is Star Wars Back at Square One?
It took Disney six years to make back the $4.05 billion it spent to acquire LucasFilm and then a mere two more years to nullify all of the progress it made... Read more
Posted on 23 January 2020 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Bad Boys For Life Delights with Throwback Thrills
Halfway through Bad Boys For Life - Sony's revival of a buddy cop franchise which debuted its last new movie 17 years ago - Will Smith's age-defying Detective... Read more
Posted on 20 January 2020 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Oscars 2020: Ranking the Best Picture Nominees
Since 1927, over 600 films have been nominated for a Best Picture Oscar. I'd estimate we've already forgotten at least half of those movies. Probably more,... Read more
Posted on 19 January 2020 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO