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Weekend Roundtable: Underrated Films of 1994

Josh Zyber — Fri, 19 Jul 2019 12:00:37 +0000

While The Lion King, Pulp Fiction, and Forrest Gump dominated the conversation in 1994, the year also had a number of movies that were unfairly undervalued or have been largely forgotten over time. This Roundtable makes a case for some of our favorites from that year. Wikipedia has a helpful list of all the films...

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Weekend Roundtable: Worst Rom-Coms

Josh Zyber — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 20:00:30 +0000

For many movie fans in relationships, Valentine’s Day will probably involve enduring a crappy romantic comedy with your Significant Other. I say “crappy” because, frankly, the vast majority of rom-coms are soul-crushingly awful movies. In today’s Roundtable, we highlight some of the worst of this genre we’ve suffered through. Shannon Nutt This is a tricky...

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Weekend Roundtable: Books Recently Read

Josh Zyber — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 19:00:43 +0000

While this blog may be primarily focused on movies, TV and videogames, we don’t want to leave the impression that we’re totally uncultured in literary matters here. We read books too, you know. (Well, some of us, anyway.) For this week’s Roundtable, let’s discuss what we’ve been reading lately. Mike Attebery I just finished Nora...

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R.I.P. Nora Ephron

Josh Zyber — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 13:00:44 +0000

Nora Ephron, queen of the romantic comedy, passed away on Tuesday at the age of 71. Although the writer-director’s career in Hollywood was uneven, to put it lightly, she managed to give us the defining rom-com, a movie that set the standard for the genre. That’s achievement enough worth celebrating. I’m referring, of course, to...

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