Poor man’s Apocalypse Now: The tone felt very similar in both of these films, but unfortunately Enemy At The Gates doesn’t have anything to say. ★★☆☆☆ Ok, I asked for this movie. I begged, nay pleaded for a movie that would go down smooth. A movie that didn’t ask any deep existential questions, a fun […]

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Rich man’s The Big Chill: Both have similar backgrounds, college friends get together and realize that their lives never turned out as planned. I Melt With You is the gritty reboot of The Big Chill. ★★★★☆ In I Melt With You, Rob Lowe, Thomas Jane, Jeremy Piven, and Christian McKay star as four college friends […]

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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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Rich man’s Network: I feel the underpinnings of Frank is dissatisfaction with social media. Network screams this same dissatisfaction from the rooftops. Literally. ★★★★☆ Frank is a weird movie. It stars Domhnall Gleeson as a wannabe musician named Jon who gets pulled into an avant-garde art rock band led by the titular Frank. Frank is […]

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Poor man’s The Good Shepherd: I somehow found this slower and less interesting than the profoundly boring fake story about how the CIA started in the US. ★★☆☆☆ Before we start on this film review, we need to have a discussion about biopics. I love biopics. If there’s a genre that has my absolute forgiveness, […]

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Rich man’s Mean Girls, the parts I like, I like way more than Mean Girls. I think Heathers is gonna stick with me more. ★★★☆☆ Heathers is an eighties movie (1988 to be exact). The haircuts are eighties. The slang is eighties. All of the women wear shoulder padded pantsuits. They look like fucking linebackers. […]

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Poor man’s Heat: although the acting is less nuanced (excluding Al Pacino) and the writing less subtle, I personally found Headhunters more fun to watch. ★★★★☆ Headhunters is a 2011 film about one man’s journey to accept himself. Also, it’s in Norwegian… If you have anything in common with me, you’ve assumed this is a black […]

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Rich man’s Big Daddy, replacing Adam Sandler’s raunchy humor with some more refined dialogue and plot ★★★☆☆ About A Boy is a 2002 film directed by Chris and Paul Weitz. Hugh Grant stars as a Will, an independently wealthy slacker with no job and no cares. He prides himself on having no ties to the […]

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