Chronicles of a First-Time Film Festival Attendee
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NerdInTheBasement (A.K.A. Douglas Laman) is a man of cinema, pure and simple. He loves good music, good food, good friends and the vocals of Idina Menzel. He does movie reviews, news pieces, editorials, occasional TV coverage and is well-known for writing like he's running out of time. Douglas Laman also has a Patreon, where you can donate to support his crippling movie-watching habit: https://www.patreon.com/DouglasLaman
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The X-Men Movies Comes To A Close With The Grim Snooze Dark Phoenix
“Make way for the X-Men, an outdated metaphor for racism from the 1960s!” – Deadpool…
A Rough Box Office Weekend See’s Secret Life of Pets 2 Becoming First Illumination Box Office Disappointment While Dark Phoenix Is Given The Bird
Ever since they first came into existence with the first Despicable Me movie, Illumination has…
Godzilla: King of the Monsters Is More of a Pauper Among Modern Monster Movies
The greatest enemy Godzilla can never seem to defeat is not King Ghidorah nor Biollante…
Lack of Jean Reno Causes Godzilla: King of the Monsters to Open With Only $49 Million Bow
1998s Godzilla movie wasn’t as big as Sony/TriStar wanted, but thanks to it tapping into…
Aladdin Is No Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland But It Still Falls Short of Being Something Magical
If you’ve seen Disney’s original Aladdin movie, you’ve basically seen the new live-action Aladdin feature…
What Exactly Had Led To The Modern Monster (Movie) Mash?
The last decade has seen a major resurgence in the presence of high-budget monster movies…
Bodacious Booksmart Brings Bevy of Brilliant Belly-Laughs
MILD SPOILER ALERT It’s the last day of High School for Molly (Beanie Feldstein) and…
Disney’s Never Had A 2010s Memorial Day Box Office Hit Like Aladdin While Fellow Newcomers BrightBurn And Booksmart Underperform
Note: all figures discussed in this article are three-day weekend estimates. Four-day Memorial Day weekend…
The Intruder Is Insultingly Forgettable
MILD SPOILERS FOR THE INTRUDER WITHIN Scott Howard (Michael Ealy) and Annie Howard (Meagan Good)…