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Boyhood took 12 years to make because Richard Linklater wanted to show a child growing up with his single mom all the way to going away to college, and he wanted to use the same actor. He convinced Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke and the mom of the kid that...

This movie is so weird and will be difficult to explain why without giving too much away, so you’ll have to trust me. For some reason, I thought this movie was from the people that created Safety Not Guaranteed and it has similar vibe to it, even though this is...

What if Groundhog’s Day took place in the middle of a war with aliens and you didn’t even get to play with a cute groundhog day after day? This movie is different where in that one Bill Murray’s character only tried to kill himself a few times and even if...

A group of eight friends gather for a dinner party on the night of a comet passing overhead.  Things were already tense when one woman is not thrilled when one of the friends brings her boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend as his date.  What starts out as a low budget indie where...

I was reminded right when the movie began that the screenplay was written by Aaron Sorkin. In the first scene, Mark Zuckerberg and his girlfriend talked very quickly while also having multiple conversations with one another at the same time. I felt like I was watching the early years...

I’ve seen Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz and even though they were different movies, they had the same two leads and they parodied movies –zombie and action movies. I would not have guessed this one was by the same director. First, it didn’t star Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. Second,...

This movie is in some ways very typical Coen brothers movie. The characters are all a bit off and entertaining to watch, while in other ways this is very different Coen brothers movie. Even though the characters are odd, they are much more realistic than characters in other Coen...

  A military plane carrying a bioweapon crashes near a small Iowa town, leaking the contents into the water system.  This makes almost everyone in the town start to go crazy and homicidal while the government quarantines the infected and tries to evacuate everyone else.  In the meantime, they’re...

Joel is the owner of an extract company. He found some way to make extracts even better than they were originally so he has made himself a nice living. He is tired of his job, he’s tired that his wife is no longer sexually interested in him and he...

Throughout college, I would see the movie at the video store and think, “I must watch this movie since it says on the cover, ‘Worst Movie of All Time!'” Yet, there was some reason I didn’t rent it. Then, Tim Burton made the Ed Wood movie and my roommate,...