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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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Arrow’s 101st Episode (“What We Leave Behind”) Was Pretty Good Too
A lot happened in Arrow's mid-season finale "What We Leave Behind," some of it good, some of it more WTF than good or bad. I'll get to all of that in a second.... Read more
Posted on 08 December 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Review: Thirteen Days Is an Especially Scary Movie to Watch These Days
Thirteen Days, director Roger Donaldson's gripping peek inside the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis, is a gift to high school history teachers... Read more
Posted on 07 December 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Review: The Edge of Seventeen
As The Edge of Seventeen opens, Nadine (Hailee Steinfeld), a dramatic sixteen-year-old, bursts into her history teacher's classroom during lunch hour and... Read more
Posted on 07 December 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Box Office: Where Have All the High School Movies Gone?
There is a sequence in writer-director Kelly Fremon Craig's wonderful debut film The Edge of Seventeen where the lead character played by Hailee Steinfeld... Read more
Posted on 05 December 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Trailer Round-Up: Guardians of the Galaxy 2 & The Mummy
Screw an intro. Let's go straight to the trailers, both of which you've probably already seen by now: Guardians of the Galaxy 2 Baby Groot is cute. I'm not... Read more
Posted on 05 December 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Review: The Search For General Tso Highlights the Chinese Immigrant Experience i...
Chinese-Americans constitute just 1.2% of the U.S. population, yet there are Chinese restaurants in just about every town in the country, estimated to... Read more
Posted on 03 December 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
My Final Thoughts on the “Heroes Vs. Aliens” Supergirl-Flash-Arrow-Legends...
That was a lot of fun. The end. Really, what more needs to be said about "Heroes Vs. Aliens," CW's four show ( Supergirl, Flash, Arrow, Legends of Tomorrow),... Read more
Posted on 03 December 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Has the Week After Thanksgiving Always Been a Dead Zone for New Movies?
Leftovers rule the day after Thanksgiving, both in our kitchens and at our theaters. As we reluctantly consume our leftover turkey, ham and other assorted... Read more
Posted on 01 December 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Arrow’s 100th Episode Was So, So Good
I first became aware of Arrow's existence through a little blurb in Entertainment Weekly's Fall TV Preview edition in 2012. There was a picture of a shirtless... Read more
Posted on 01 December 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Flash: Reacting to “Invasion!” (S3:E8)
At long last, the big DC TV four night crossover event is finally here. Supergirl got it started Monday by, um, having a completely standalone episode which mad... Read more
Posted on 30 November 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Box Office: In the Age of Event Cinema, Can Awards Contenders Even Compete...
Another weekend, another tale of two box offices. On the one end, the big movies continue to do what big movies do, i.e., practically print money; on the other... Read more
Posted on 29 November 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Moana
SPOILER WARNING FOR MOANA Like many others, my Thanksgiving holiday weekend included a trip to my local movie theater to see Moana with family. If you haven't... Read more
Posted on 28 November 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Review: Rules Don’t Apply Is One of the Worst Movies I’ve Seen All Year
Warren Beatty seems to have taken the title of his new movie Rules Don't Apply a tad too literally because in his position as writer, director and star of this... Read more
Posted on 27 November 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Review: Moana Is the Perfect Realization of a Disney Princess Movie
At one point in Disney's new fantastic movie musical Moana, the title character, a strong-willed, 16-year-old princess seeking the help of a demigod to save... Read more
Posted on 27 November 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Harry Potter’s Ever-Shifting Hogwarts Faculty – An Infographic
Who was your favorite Defense Against the Darks Art Teacher? I'm a Remus Lupin man, myself, although when your competition is a couple of Voldemort acolytes... Read more
Posted on 24 November 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Flash: Reacting to “Killer Frost” (S3:E7)
.In "Killer Frost," Caitlin went bye-bye for a while, Savitar mopped the floor with Barry as most big bads do around this time of the season on The Flash and To... Read more
Posted on 24 November 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
What Hell Or High Water Tell Us About Donald Trump’s America
Hell or High Water, director David Mackenzie's modern day cops and bank robbers western set in the barren wastelands of West Texas, comes out on home video... Read more
Posted on 22 November 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Critic Standoff: Is Arrival a Well-Intentioned Mess of Sentimentality, Or a...
Arrival is director Denis Velleneuve and screenwriter Eric Heisserer more thoughtful answer to Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin's Independence Day. The basic... Read more
Posted on 21 November 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Film Review: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Never Quite Finds Itself
I didn't love Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, but before I explain why I want to briefly reflect on how we got here. Earlier this year, it seemed as... Read more
Posted on 20 November 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Marvel, ABC & IMAX’s Inhumans Collaboration is More Important Than You Might...
In this golden age of TV we are currently living through, have you ever been watching something that was so good, like maybe the most recent episode of Westworl... Read more
Posted on 18 November 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO