Rich Man’s Humpday: a tale of bravado and bromance, but Swingers comes in the easier-to-swallow gel capsule ★★★☆☆ Swingers, as most of you probably already know, is Jon Favreau’s 1996 film debut. It stars Favreau and Vince Vaughn as two struggling entertainers (Favreau is a standup comedian, Vaughn is an actor) living in early 90s […]

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Poor man’s 500 Days of Summer: Both are romantic comedies with a twist, but I enjoy watching 500 Days more. ★★★★☆ This week Josh assigned me Chasing Amy. It’s the third movie in the View Askewniverse created by Kevin Smith. The film was released in 1997. I don’t know why, but Kevin Smith often leaves […]

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Hey Cinemateurs, we’re not going to have a normal post this week due to life getting in the way. But, we didn’t want to leave you without a post this week. We’ve quickly pulled a list of action movies on Netflix that we can recommend you check out before we leave blockbuster season. We’ll be […]

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Rich Man’s M*A*S*H, it uses the same dark-comedic tone but puts it to much greater effect ★★★★★ When you’ve been watching and discussing movies with the same people for over 7+ years you end up with a common vocabulary. Today, I get to talk to you cinemateurs about a term we use, a ‘perfect film’. […]

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