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Podcast Rating Review

Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)

Sometimes a movie just clicks in a way that is totally subjective. Especially comedies.

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Podcast Rating Review

Teen Beach Movie (2013)

I’m not sure a film has ever more steadily improved in my estimation than Teen Beach Movie, the Disney Channel musical from 2013.

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Max Keeble’s Big Move (2001)

Max Keeble’s Big Move is 100% tween boy cheese, but it’s exactly the kind of cheese I love

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Dumb and Dumber (1994)

Dumb and Dumber is a comedy where many of the broadest, best-known gags have lost their luster, but the the stuff on the fringes absolutely slays me.

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Batman Begins (2005)

Batman Begins remains one of the great comic book movies because Christopher Nolan captures a really compelling tug of war between two competing forces: gritty realism and operatic mythmaking.

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Legacy Review

The Transporter (2002)

I was 14 when The Transporter series kicked off, which is the absolute perfect age to be enraptured by its fun-spirited but immensely dumb action shenanigans.

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Transporter 2 (2005)

Imagine you are a seventeen year-old boy. One burden-free summer day, you and your buddies get hopped up on Dr Pepper. The sun is shining. It’s the golden era of your youth.

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Office Space (1999)

It’s tough to overstate how iconic Office Space: Almost 25 years later, its portrait of white-collar corporate hell remains potent and disturbingly accurate.

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)

There’s a pretty major difference watching One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest at age 33, with more life experiences under your belt, as opposed to age 18, when I first saw it.

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A Hologram for the King (2016)

My reaction to this film is somewhat muted in part, I admit, because the title, poster, and opening few minutes suggest something far trippier and more ambitious than what this really is