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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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31 Days of Halloween: The Wind
Horror, traditionally, is a stepping-stone genre. It's the thing you make when you're starting out and have no money or leverage. Your dollar can go very far... Read more
Posted on 04 October 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Joker: The Joke’s On Us
So, I don't know if you've heard about this but Todd Phillips - aka the guy who made The Hangover trilogy - and Joaquin Phoenix made a movie together. It's... Read more
Posted on 04 October 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
31 Days of Halloween: Microwave Massacre
"Life is about choices. Some we regret, some we're proud of. Some will haunt us forever. The message: we are what we chose to be." Somebody named Graham Brown... Read more
Posted on 03 October 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
31 Days of Halloween: Effects
For Day 2 of this year's 31 Days of Halloween, I chose to stick with the rather meta-theme of picking a horror movie about the making of a horror movie.... Read more
Posted on 02 October 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
31 Days of Halloween: One Cut of the Dead
October is back. You know what that means. Playoff baseball? No, not playoff baseball. 31 Days of Halloween! It's right there in the title of this article. Why... Read more
Posted on 01 October 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Why Do We Need Joker When We Already Have The King of Comedy?
" Joker is a hyper-familiar origin story so indebted to Taxi Driver and The King of Comedy that Martin Scorsese probably deserves an executive producer... Read more
Posted on 30 September 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
My Favorite 27 Films of the Year So Far
In July, I asked if Hollywood had released even a single Oscar movie yet. Depending on how passionately you wanted to argue on behalf of Us or Rocketman, the... Read more
Posted on 29 September 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Two Big Kevin Feige Stories This Week
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, the pride of Samoa, used to refer to himself as "franchise Viagara." This was in the days before he was commanding $20 million per... Read more
Posted on 28 September 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Between Two Ferns: The Movie Is An Easy 82 Minutes to Sit Through
What is cinema? Is it in an art form? Or is it a physical location? Or both? And if it is an art form, how exactly do you define it? Is there a maximum and/or... Read more
Posted on 27 September 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Do You Still Watch Broadcast Television Shows?
I'll have to double-check the stats on this, but I'm pretty sure 130 new TV shows have debuted this month, 100 of them on Broadcast TV - ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox,... Read more
Posted on 26 September 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Official Secrets: Should Have Been a Limited Series
On a recent episode of The Ringer podcast The Big Picture, host Sean Fennessey openly wondered if the Limited Series - the new name for "mini-series" - might... Read more
Posted on 25 September 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
TV: Coming Soon to a Movie Theater Near You
If you walk into my local movie theater right now, you'll find several screens devoted to Downton Abbey. Just down the hall, there's at least one screen set... Read more
Posted on 24 September 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
My Emmys Reaction: Drama & Limited Series
The Primetime Emmy Awards went without a host last night, following the new awards show trend kicked off so memorably by the Oscars last March. Fox executives,... Read more
Posted on 23 September 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
My Emmys Reaction: Comedy
An unusually high number of long-running shows - Big Bang Theory, Broad City, Jane the Virgin, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Gotham, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt - called i... Read more
Posted on 23 September 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Brittany Runs a Marathon Aims to Make You Feel Seen
52,812 people finished the New York City Marathon last year. An additional 45,435 runners actually applied and either didn't get accepted or didn't finish the... Read more
Posted on 22 September 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Making Sense of the Emmys in the Peak TV Era
It's September 22, 2019. Tonight, Hollywood honors all of the best TV shows of the past year which aired between June 1, 2018 and May 31, 2019. We do this... Read more
Posted on 22 September 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Ad Astra: Space as Metaphor 101
The premise of Ad Astra - so cleanly communicated in the trailer - seems to give away the farm. Brad Pitt plays a near future astronaut who discovers his... Read more
Posted on 21 September 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
American Horror Story: 1984 & My Thoughts on the Slasher Genre
American Horror Story: 1984 - the latest installment in FX's long-running horror anthology series - is tackling the slasher genre, doling out a story about... Read more
Posted on 20 September 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Why So Many Old TV Shows Are Getting Crazy Stupid Money from Streaming
Friends got $425 million from HBO Max. The Office got $500 million from NBCUniversal. Netflix just threw at least $500 million at Seinfeld, and less than 24... Read more
Posted on 17 September 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Netflix’s Unbelievable: A Powerful PSA For Why We Should Believe Victims
The true-crime boom of the past decade extends into all manner of media. Novels, movies, podcasts, newspapers, magazines, TV shows - wherever it is, we can't ge... Read more
Posted on 15 September 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO