Category Archives: Movie Corner

Alfonso Cuaron did an AMA

Posted on February 14, 2014 by kamper

Alfonso Cuaron, director of Gravity (which I will defend to the death) and Children of Men (only the best movie ever), did an AMA (ask me anything) over at Reddit, and it was 51 shades of awesome. You can read … Continue reading →

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Hilarious synopsis of Iron Man 1 and 2 fails to save long distance relationship

Posted on January 12, 2014 by kamper

Redditor spidermanngp made the following “multimedia synopsis” of the first two Iron Man movies for his girlfriend, who was going to see Iron Man 3 but hadn’t seen the first two. Sadly, they broke up before he could finish it … Continue reading →

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“Possibly the second-worst thing to happen to Japan so far this century . . .

Posted on December 24, 2013 by kamper

. . . “47 Ronin” is at once both a miserable movie and an extraordinary monument to how miserable the movie industry can be.” Whoa, reviewers are going to have a hard time topping David Ehrlich at film.com on this … Continue reading →

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“. . . but they were two things that I thought were very important in my life—the ice cream and the Creature”

Posted on November 21, 2013 by kamper

Guillermo del Toro talking to the Onion A/V Club about his early love for the Creature from the Black Lagoon. Still, to this day, I think it’s the perfect creature suit. In the history of film, there are two perfect … Continue reading →

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Guillermo del Toro’s opening to Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror

Posted on October 4, 2013 by kamper

I’ll let someone else do the fetishy internet thing where they name every movie and/or creature referenced in this clip — for me I was weirdly gratified to see the nod to 1977’s The Car, a movie I saw in … Continue reading →

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Wolverine: A Film by Woody Allen

Posted on September 27, 2013 by kamper

How did I miss this for a whole damn month? From Official Comedy. This is funnier than any actual Woody Allen movie since Bullets Over Broadway.

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The World’s End versus Tommy Saxondale

Posted on September 17, 2013 by kamper

Have you seen The World’s End? It was a worthy addition to the Simon Pegg/Nick Frost/Edgar Wright trilogy (the first two parts being Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz). This one was essentially a combination of the first two … Continue reading →

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Honest Trailers: World War Z

Posted on September 17, 2013 by kamper

Spot on. WWZ was not (as expected) a terrible movie, but what a waste of brilliant source material. I understand that the complexity of the book could never be put on-screen, but why not feature three interlocking stories from three … Continue reading →

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I like this version better than the original

Posted on August 23, 2013 by kamper

There are no nerds quite like LEGO nerds.

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Severus Snape vs. The Ramones

Posted on August 8, 2013 by kamper

Here’s the trailer for the new movie about CBGBs. I don’t know, trying to keep an open mind about this one, but it looks dubious. I might need to break out the cruciatus curse for this one. I never saw … Continue reading →

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