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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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Manchester By the Sea Wouldn’t Exist If Matt Damon Wasn’t Such a Nice Guy
It's easy to mock Matt Damon right now. His new movie, The Great Wall, is the worst-reviewed of his career. Its lazy white savior narrative inspired the... Read more
Posted on 22 February 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Binge Report: The Fantastic Killjoys & Silly, But Engaging Lost Girl
Here are two shows that might be worth your binge-watching time: Killjoys on SyFy Now When it comes to SyFy's recent explosion of original programming, I have... Read more
Posted on 20 February 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Review: The Autopsy of Jane Doe Takes the Inherently Creepy and Runs With It In...
2016 was a fantastic year for the horror-thriller fans, with a steady stream of impressive mainstream titles (10 Cloverfield Lane, Green Room, The Conjuring 2,... Read more
Posted on 20 February 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Review: 7 Questions You Might Have About The Great Wall
The Great Wall plays like a more colorful, movie-length version of The Battle of Helm's Deep from Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers before dovetailing into a... Read more
Posted on 19 February 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
China Didn’t Seem to Care About The Great Wall’s White-Savior Complex. So, Why D...
In Zhang Yimou's The Great Wall, Matt Damon plays a European mercenary who helps the builders of The Great Wall of China fight off monsters. Thus, it combines... Read more
Posted on 18 February 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Arrow’s Gun Control Episode Was Flawed, But Better Than Expected
Arrow exists in a universe in which people can be brought back to life thanks to a magic hot tub, nuclear bombs can destroy small U.S. towns without altering th... Read more
Posted on 17 February 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Do You Or Does Anyone You Know Actually Want Warner Bros. to Make Suicide Squad...
We all live in our social media bubbles, and self-select into social circles and media outlets which only reflect our own opinions back at us. As a result, me... Read more
Posted on 16 February 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
A June Release for an Indie Comedy? Have Amazon and Lionsgate Doomed The Big Sic...
The Big Sick was one of the buzziest films at the Sundance Film Festival last month, sparking a bidding war which Amazon and Lionsgate ended up winning by... Read more
Posted on 16 February 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Netflix Movie Review: Girlfriend’s Day Would Have Been Better Off as a Short...
If you squint hard enough at Girlfriend's Day you might be able to convince yourself it's just an extra-long episode of Better Call Sal. Look, there's Bob... Read more
Posted on 15 February 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Here’s How Netflix Convinced Ava DuVernay to Make 13th Instead of Black Panther
In a recent interview with KCRW, Ava DuVernay explained why she chose to make a documentary for Netflix instead of taking on Black Panther, Marvel's first... Read more
Posted on 14 February 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Review: Humans, Westworld and The Dubious Title of “Best Robot Show on TV”
AMC's British import Humans returns tonight for its second season, and I just finished my binge of the first season on Amazon, sucked in by this modern spin on... Read more
Posted on 14 February 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Box Office: Do We Even Notice Anymore When a Movie Makes More In China Than In...
OMG, you guys, xXx: Return of Xander Cage just opened to a massive $61.9 million in China, which is the biggest opening for a Hollywood movie in China this... Read more
Posted on 13 February 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
What I Watched This Weekend: No Tomorrow, Humans & Michael Bolton’s Big, Sexy...
Full disclosure: I originally intended for this to be a very short article, just a brief list of everything I watched this weekend as a conversation-starter... Read more
Posted on 13 February 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
John Wick: Chapter 2 Continues the Evolution of One of Our Best New Film...
John Wick: Chapter 2 does exactly what you want from a sequel. It ups the action, elevates the stakes but not to a ridiculous extent, invites us deeper into... Read more
Posted on 12 February 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Review: What The Lego Batman Movie Taught Me About Batman (While Making Me Laugh)
The Lego Batman Movie is a relentless deconstruction of the Batman mythos, with an emphasis on "relentless" as this movie so jam-packed with jokes and sight gag... Read more
Posted on 11 February 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Batman Almost Didn’t Make It Into The Lego Movie
Darkness. No Parents. And with those three little words Batman managed to steal The Lego Movie and get his own standalone spin-off, in theaters now. This... Read more
Posted on 10 February 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Is Legion Truly a Masterpiece? Or Is It Just So Different From Everything Else...
Spoilers for Legion's Pilot Await You Below Legion' s pilot, which just premiered on FX last night, is a triumph of style over substance, and I mean that in... Read more
Posted on 09 February 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Flash, Legends of Tomorrow & Arrow Are Going In Opposite Directions
To watch a Greg Berlanti-produced superhero show is to turn off your brain, to revel in the bright and light and ignore plot holes, consistently underwritten... Read more
Posted on 09 February 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
What If John Wick Had Been the One to Die, Not the Dog?
To help promote John Wick 2, LionsGate commissioned an official parody video from the RocketJump people over at YouTube. What they came up with is an alternate... Read more
Posted on 08 February 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
What Would You Do If Netflix Suddenly Had Ads?
Thanks to a recent report by Exstreamist we know Netflix is apparently leaving $2 billion on the table in annual revenue by staying commercial-free, which open... Read more
Posted on 08 February 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO