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Heads of State and The Mythos of Male Friendship

Male friendship is one of life's most fascinating mysteries. At least to me. I'll be the first to admit that I'm an outsider here, but sometimes watching my male friends interact seems like an episode of Planet Earth. Take last week for example. I'm chilling in the basement with some of the boys, and before I can even blink all six of them were down on all fours, hurling insults I don't care to re

Charlie'sMovieMoveIt: I consider myself more sentimental than most men, as I grew up with a single mom. I'm the kind of guy who will make a call or write letters to his close friends then just to say hello, and how much I missed the old times etc. Some of them thought it was odd for me to do so as they don't know how to react, and some of them enjoyed it. As I kept doing it, they knew this is how I am, and they accepted. When they miss me, well, they rarely say so, but they would let me know through some other actions. You see, whether being sentimental or "tough" is not really a typical men thing, and it's likely that some men don't know how to react to sentimental things properly. Apart from natural cause like personality, common social values and educations also has a big impact on men's behavior. Do men want to be sentimental? When you see a man cry, you would know that most of his tear are not freshly made for today. He would rather keep silence, as he can't understand why some of the tears were already there long before he knows. Moreover, he would refuse to admit it. That is dumb, you know. Men definitely have the potential to not be stubborn. We can see the differences between kids and grown up men. On the other hand, when I'm not so sentimental, I would rather express my feelings through real actions, like ask them out to go fishing, have a dinner, play some games etc, all kinds of stuffs that men would typically do. Do we get jealous, mad or sad if the other win the game, we do, as normal human. However, the point is, the person we choose to hang out with, are usually the person we genuinely feel happy and fulfilling with every progress that he make, the person we would help when he mess up, and also the person we want to show our progress or mess to. (So you see two dude swear, compete, do dumb things and after that they are still friends) This is a long comment, and you might wonder "Why this dude left such a long comment to me." Well, you know, most men want to be known. And we often see women knowing us in a way that they think they know us. You didn't do that, and you actually care to ask, "Hey, men, what you really are?" Thank you for the respect.

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RoboCop Punched Me in the Mouth and I Thanked It

Earlier this year, I finally crossed RoboCop off my watchlist. Not for lack of opportunity — it’s been staring at me for years as I’ve leisurely been working my way through Paul Verhoeven’s filmography — but because I’m the kind of viewer who waits for the right moment. As it turns out, that moment was me coughing up half a lung on my couch — recovering from pneumonia — drugged out on decongestant

Lucas.: The guy who hates Megalopolis owns the box set of Showgirls...

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mind.full.of.movies

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It's Not That Deep: Why You Need to Watch Catfight

Recently, Sandra Oh completed her doctorate in medicine and everyone has been talking about Grey's Anatomy again. As someone who is constantly discovering old movies way too late in the game, I was ready to bring my A-game to the conversation and share my thoughts on Catfight, which, in my opinion, should be considered a classic. Imagine my surprise when I realized that barely anyone I knew had he

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She Loves Explosions

She Loves Explosions

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John Woo'd Me

My arms are burning, but I can't stop now. 10, 9, 8, 7... Lactic acid courses through my muscles. Sweat drips from my forehead. The sound of gunfire and explosions fills the room. Time is running out. The clock is ticking down. 6, 5, 4..... I'm exhausted, but I push through the pain. 3... I grit my teeth. 2... I'm going to make it. 1. The microwave dings just as my arms give out. I did it. A new b

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She Loves Explosions

She Loves Explosions

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· 07/17/2025

Does anyone remember Hardcore Henry?

In 2015, Hardcore Henry became the first (and so far only) film to be shot entirely in first person. Watching the movie feels pretty similar to a video game on autopilot. I don't love the movie, but I admire that it was willing to take a risk and experiment with the medium of film. What other movies experimented with film and tried something totally unique?

The DC: Of course, I really like this one. I think it's clever, and it knows it's a gimmick, so it's not like the movie wants to trick you. Also, it has that weird FPS game campaign vibe that makes no sense

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She Loves Explosions

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Ballerina is Perfect 2010s YA

Have you ever played Connections? Let's see if you can get this one: What do these four things have in common? Legend. Matched. Selection. Testing. Think on it. We'll come back to it later. Something about Ballerina felt eerily familiar when I first saw it, and it wasn't just that it's set in the John Wick universe. It felt more like... Déjà vu. And I couldn't figure out why until I went home for

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Wingwomen: Redefining Femininity in Action Movies

ChillJane, November 9 2023 CJ Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ According to Mélanie Laurent in an interview from Variety, when Netflix invested in "Wingwomen", which she directs and stars in, they were expecting a film that was ambitious in mise-en-scène with significant action sequences while retaining the French style. Obviously, Mélanie Laurent gives far more. She makes an action movie with an all-female cast and

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Fran Casillas

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The Gospel of Rage: Humanity Unmasked in 28 Days Later

To dwell within the anxious nightmare of Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later is to plunge headlong into an inferno where civilization’s fragile veneer shatters, scattering shards of humanity’s grotesque truths across the screen. Released in the deceptively distant year of 2002, this film remains brutally relevant, its lo‑fi aesthetic and ferocious realism not only enduring but thriving in the age of pande

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Let‘s Explore What Went Wrong with COUNTDOWN (2025)

Countdown is a series that was created by Derek Haas and it stars Jensen Ackles and follows the story of Detective Mark Meachum, a LPD detective who uncover a conspiracy of criminals while investigating the death of a powerful officer of the task force. It was released in Prime Video with his first 3 episodes and it will be releasing every episode weekly. I‘ve watched the full 13 episodes and star

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She Loves Explosions

She Loves Explosions

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The Final Reckoning Broke My Heart

Out of all the spy movies that I devoured at a young age, Mission: Impossible was always my favourite. There was something about Ethan Hunt in particular that drew me in. He wasn't a flawless badass like James Bond, but no matter what was thrown at him, he could always figure it out. His competence and total commitment to the cause were what set him apart for me. As an anxious little kid who spent

Matthew Alan Schmidt: Talk about a nose dive to end off the franchise.

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Nexus Striker

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These Two Heroes Got Reunion After 18 Years! Before ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’

Written in front: The article will be focus on the first sequel of Indiana Jones series, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. The article contains serious spoilers, readers are advised to choose to watch carefully. Before writing the movie article, let me congratulate our Harrison Ford and Ke Huy Quan. After the two collaborated in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom in 1984, they will meet agai

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Barack Obama's favorite movies of 2022

Obama recently shared his "favorite movies of 2022" on social media. There are 17 films on his list, including director Park Chan-wook's "Decision to Leave", Spielberg's semi-autobiographical "The fabelmans", the 2021 Golden Lion award winner "Happening", as well as independent films such as "Aftersun" and "After Yang". Well, let's take a look at these 17 movies. 01 “The Fabelmans” (Dir. Steven Sp

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They Have the Chemistry! David Corenswet & Rachel Brosnahan Are Superman & Lois

According to an official announcement by James Gunn himself, the new Superman and Lois Lane for the DC Universe (DCU) have been confirmed! David Corenswet will portray Superman, while Rachel Brosnahan will play Lois Lane. These two actors have been highly anticipated since the casting stage, and they have indeed secured the roles. At 29 years old, David Corenswet perfectly fits the casting require

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Charlie'sMovieMoveIt

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Alien: Final Girl and Sci-fi Rape

Mad Sanity Alien (1979) is a film that projects the survivor fantasy of rape. Such fantasy is so subtle and metaphoric that we can only realize it until the very end. Through its cold tone and disorienting visuals, any feelings that performed by the actor are condensed and enhanced. When the accumulated emotions are finally unleashed, no matter what conseÅquence is followed, we come to realize tha

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Ballads of Ballistics and the Ballet of Blood: On Ballerina and the Aesthetic Excess of Operatic Violence

Prelude in Powder and Flame There are movies you watch. And then there are movies you feel—movies that detonate inside your ribcage like a cluster grenade. Ballerina, the feral and fabulous spin-kick out of the John Wick Cinematic Universe, is the latter. I caught it in Dolby, which is to say: inside a cathedral carved from sound. And every bullet, every bone snap, every krrrack of a shattering ne

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She Loves Explosions

She Loves Explosions

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Speed Is The Daddy of All Action Movies

A public bus isn't the most pleasant place at the best of times. I would know, I take it every day. No elbow room to be found, constantly jockeying for position, listening to someone's too-loud phone conversation or trying to avoid eye contact with the weirdo sitting across from you who smells like mothballs and is wearing gumboots in May. Nobody wants to be there. Now imagine you and everyone aro

Bob Woolsey: I don't know if I agree with you. As you mentioned, there's Point Break from 1990 so Speed might not even be the best Keanu action movie of the 90s... What about The Rock, Con Air, Terminator 2, Face Off, GoldenEye, Mission: Impossible?

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Dear Thunderbolts*,

Dear Thunderbolts*, My name is Filip Kovacevic. I’m writing this letter because my power is out for the fifth time this week, and I’m positive it is because of whatever those shadows were. I have some questions that I need answers to. My friend somehow convinced me to start reading some conspiracy theory websites in the rare times I still have power. At first, it all seemed insane; some articles t

marvelousmars: Lmaooo I love this. Honestly, if I lived in the MCU, I'd question anybody who still chose to live in a major city. Sure, you won't be 100% safe in the countryside, but at least your renter's insurance/health insurance/every single kind of insurance really would actually be borderline affordable...I wonder if there's insurance specifically for superhero-related events or if that falls under disaster insurance... If Thor's involved, would claims be denied because it's an "act of (a) god"? So many questions...

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Ryan Liddiard

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Fight or Flight: Bullet Train for Bloodthirsty Aerophiles

Apparently, the screenplay for James Madigan’s Fight or Flight had been floating around Hollywood for several years before Thunder Road Films finally picked it up and produced it. After watching the film last night — and having to navigate more plot holes than a detective in a self-published crime novel — I can see why so many studios passed on it. That said, it was still a perfectly entertaining

marvelousmars: Your article is well written, yet for some reason all I can wonder now is whether or not this kind of film could be part of the free entertainment on a flight... I feel like probably not, since they don't want anybody getting ideas 😂

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Filip Kovacevic

Filip Kovacevic

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Spectacular Spider-Man: A Cut Web

This will likely be a shock to nobody reading this article, but I love the Spectacular Spider-Man animated series. If you don’t know which show I’m talking about (which I refuse to believe), it’s a show which ran from 2008 to 2009. The show’s story wasn’t vastly different from the comics, but blended ideas from multiple Spider-Man works perfectly. The animation was top quality for its time, with s

Lucas.: Your love for this show really comes through in the article. My only question is why does Electro have bioelectricity oozing out of his nipples? Maybe that's why the show got cancelled?

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Lucas.

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Why The Heck Do I Want to Watch Thunderbolts*?

Marvel fans, rejoice. This weekend, the Marvel Cinematic Universe will release its 36th movie, Thunderbolts*, the conclusion to Phase Five of the studio's release calendar. I don't count myself as an MCU fan. It's not that I hate superheroes. I wanted to support the MCU, I really did, but its relentless release schedule and my unfamiliarity with almost all of its superheroes made me incapable of k

Jenn The Editor: wait, sebastian stan?? i must have missed him in the trailer, i clicked out when the MCU logo came up.

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