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Mike’s Review: The Amazing Spider-Man 2

Posted on May 6, 2014 by Mike White | 5 comments

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 had plenty going against it before it opened last Friday, May 2nd^. (Early showings started around 8 on Thursday.) Early reviews were lukewarm at best. Rumors of too many villains bogging down the film were strong, and incessant trailers and TV spots seemed to leave very few surprises. More than anything, ASM 2 absolutely needed to improve upon director Marc Webb’s first Spidey outing, 2012’s even-less-than-lukewarm reboot. Amazing Spider-Man 2 didn’t need to be amazing (it’s not,) it simply needed to be better (it is.) Continue reading →

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Mike’s Trailer Thursday: The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)

Posted on December 5, 2013 by Mike White | 2 comments

Release Date: May 2, 2014

Director: Marc Webb

Written By: Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman and Jeff Pinker (Screenplay) and James Vanderbilt (story)

As promised, today the Obsessive Viewer gives you a special Thursday edition of Trailer Tuesday: The Amazing Spider-Man 2.

So…spoiler alert…I guess. Continue reading →

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4 Days of Blood: Part III – An Infection of Zombie Movies

Posted on October 29, 2013 by Matt Hurt | 2 comments

Make sure you check out The Obsessive Viewer Podcast’s episode celebrating our love of zombies.

Zombies are by far my favorite movie monster. There’s nothing about zombies that scares me, per se. I would actually go so far as to say that they’re fairly low on the list of scariest movie monsters. But zombie movies, to me, are never really about the monsters. Zombies bring out the monsters that live within us and within the people we encounter every day. Continue reading →

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Double Feature: Mean Girls (2004) & Easy A (2010)

Posted on April 25, 2013 by Matt Hurt | 4 comments

One day last month I had an impromptu double feature with Mean Girls and Easy A. It’s not a stretch to figure out why these two go well together. They’re both comedies about female protagonists dissecting and disrupting the hierarchy of high school life. They’re a natural fit. Which one is better, though? Read on to find out.