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Venom looks goofy as hell, so why am I now more interested in seeing it?

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Anghus Houvouras on Sony’s Venom movie… If I’ve learned anything from nearly 20 years of writing about movies online, it’s that I appreciate movies that defy expectations. This explains my Marvel movie malaise with everything from Age of Ultron through Captain America: Civil War. I was bored with the Marvel Cinematic Universe because it wasn’t […]

An Unsubstantiated Opinion: Rian Johnson’s perplexing relationship with Star Wars: The Last Jedi critics

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Anghus Houvouras on Rian Johnson’s perplexing relationship with Star Wars: The Last Jedi critics… When forging our opinions, we spend a unnecessary amount of time worrying about being on the ‘right’ side of an argument. When it comes to cinema, there is no ‘right’ and ‘wrong’. There are only widely varying feelings of the entire human […]

The Most Disappointing – Star Wars: The Last Jedi

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Anghus Houvouras on Star Wars: The Last Jedi (major spoilers follow)… It’s all been done. That song by Canada’s eighth best band Barenaked Ladies was bouncing around my head as I watched the latest installment of the Star Wars saga. A galaxy, far, far away isn’t nearly as exciting as it used to be. Not […]

Exclusive Interview: Danny Trejo on Dead Again in Tombstone

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Anghus Houvouras chats with Dead Again in Tombstone star Danny Trejo… There was a time when the over the top action movie could find a place in theater. Where pulpy, high-excess cinema could work their way into movie theaters with some degree of regularity. At some point around the third Transporter movie fun action movies […]

The Year in Disappointment: 2017

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Anghus Houvouras with the year in disappointment… Normally this column is a vapid deep dive into the dumpster fire of pop culture confections unable to deliver on lofty expectations. This year feels different. There’s been a tangible shift in the polarity of the entertainment industry. Columnists like myself are no stranger to the concept of […]

The Most Disappointing: Marvel’s The Defenders

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Anghus Houvouras on Marvel’s The Defenders… This one kind of smarts. Imagine after all the Marvel Phase One films you finally get to The Avengers and it ends up a poorly written dumpster fire. This was my experience with Marvel’s The Defenders. It’s absolute garbage. A poorly written piece of pure inevitability that never manages […]

Why we need more Star Wars prequels

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Anghus Houvouras thinks we need more Star Wars prequels… My old friend, writer Dean Lines made a post on Twitter the other day that shook the foundation of everything I hold dear, all the way down to my midichlorians. https://twitter.com/deanlines/status/898320728990171136 Dean’s sarcastic, venom laced tweet was the last straw in a never-ending stream of razor-sharp […]

Is Thor: Ragnarok the best Marvel movie ever?

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Anghus Houvouras on whether Thor: Ragnarok is the best Marvel movie ever… Yes. There you go! Nice, succinct, spoiler-free and to the point. I suppose there are those who want more detail, so allow me to elaborate. Spoilers ahead my friends. THOR: RAGNAROK IS THE BEST MARVEL MOVIE. Better than Iron Man. Better than The Avengers. […]

Why The Flash movie shouldn’t be Flashpoint

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Anghus Houvouras on DC’s plans for Flashpoint… So Justice League is finally out. Audience reception is slightly more favorable than Batman v Superman but not the all-encompassing crowd-pleaser that was Wonder Woman. The U.S. box office is lukewarm. Whether or not Justice League turns out to be a success will be up to the International […]