The Great Gatsby Based on possibly the most Cliffsnotes-ed book of all time, The Great Gatsby faces the same dilemma that any adaptation of a classic does – everything you need to make it good is right there in the original, but the original is already so important that just making it ‘good’ isn’t [...]
The Place Beyond the Pines Director Derek Cianfrance clearly wants to prove that stories do not need to be told in a traditional linear fashion. His previous effort, Blue Valentine, walked us through the demise of a relationship by intercutting scenes from its romantic beginning with much bleaker glimpses of the same couple on the [...]
G.I. Joe – Retaliation Today we’re talking about the half reboot, half sequel to a movie in which an iceberg sinks in water, so we can skip the part where we discuss merit or quality. G.I. Joe – Retaliation is garbage. If you’re watching it for anything other than guilty pleasure you’re already wrong. Go [...]
FUCK THAT CALF! In which we slay the things others hold dear. Ryan Gosling I like Ryan Gosling the same unhealthy amount that you do. I even like his band. So this isn’t so much of a Fuck That Calf as it is a Let’s Lay Off That Calf For A Little While. Ryan [...]
The Croods Dreamworks, in their ongoing crusade to prove that they’re more than just an in-theatre mockbuster scheme, have really stepped up their game of late. No longer content to make movies that look just enough like Pixar to remind us of how much better Pixar is, they’ve started churning out releases like the [...]
FUCK THAT CALF! In which we slay the things others hold dear. DVD Special Features I understand that there are nerds out there that want to know everything about every movie, but this shit is stupid. Fitting a two hour film into my day is difficult enough but to then expect me to watch [...]
Flickchart’s Greatest Battles In which we pit two movies together using flickchart.com, debating their merits or lack thereof. ROUND ONE TROY VS CATCH ME IF YOU CAN Troy and Catch Me if You Can, the first is based on one of the greatest stories of all time. The other features America’s sweetheart Tom [...]
HEY, YOU KNOW WHAT YOU SHOULD DO? In which we tell you about awesome things that you must look into and enjoy. Solve All 55 Lego Puzzles! In celebration of its 55th birthday the good people at Lego have commissioned 55 visual puzzles from the creative agency Brad. The minimalist posters are each meant to [...]
Oz the Great and Powerful The Wizard of Oz has been re-made, sequel-ed, prequel-ed, adapted, rebooted, re-imagined and in general just fucked with so often that it’s hard to tell exactly how much it being done one more time matters. Almost none of the 500 or so Oz rip-offs are anywhere near the original in [...]
Snitch In Snitch, Dwayne Johnson plays John Matthews, the owner of a construction company who goes to extraordinary lengths to save his son from an unsympathetic and overly pragmatic legal system. He fights his way through mounds of red tape and dozens of gangsters whose dialogue was clearly written by a white person but at [...]
A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD As each Die Hard movie marches closer and closer to Fast and Furious territory, the question we have to ask ourselves is “Are we ok with John McClain becoming a big, dumb, American James Bond?” There’s something about the tightly packaged, predictably trope-y action films that the James Bond [...]
Weekend Muvie Revue Looper Here at Yourpopfilter.com we spend a pretty solid chunk of our time talking about Chris Nolan. We spend even more talking about M Night Shyamalan for some reason and I personally can never, ever shut the fuck about Darren Aaronovsky. You probably have three very different opinions about those three very [...]
Weekend Muvie Revue Dredd 3D When you set out to make an action movie you’re eventually going to have to decide whether the action is there to propel your plot forward or the plot and characters are just a there as a framework you can stuff as much action as possible into. Or you can [...]
THE POP FILTER MIXTAPE Anger Bang Poison and Wine – The Civil Wars The go-to reaction to ‘what song to pick for a hate fuck’ is something loud, aggresive and punk rock. However, nothing says I hate you like a song that realitically depicts a passive aggressive relationship going even more sour. The music is [...]
Weekend Muvie Revue Lawless How soon is too soon to call a director Iconic? And how soon after that can I explain that iconic doesn’t mean great? The answers are ‘after only three movies’ and ‘immediately’. John Hillcoat has only directed three films, as long as your definition of film is the same as mine – [...]
THE POP FILTER MIXTAPE Exercising Hungover Lua – Bright Eyes For me, exercising is not an activity that exists but, unfortunately hangovers do. Now I understand that exercising requires strenuous movements of the body, which is the last thing I would ever want to do, and certainly not something I would do hungover. That said, [...]
Weekend Muvie Revue The Expendables 2 Action movies are by necessity the most masturbatory of any genre. Their entire purpose is to allow you to indulge in violence. The goal isn’t to teach you a lesson about violence and when it is or isn’t necessary, the goal is to show you how awesome it is. [...]
TRAILER TRASH In which we review movies based on only the previews with 100% accuracy. Sparkle Finally, a movie with soul. For those of you who don’t know, that means there’s black people in it. And if you’re tired of all those soulless white movies, this is just the thing for you. A woman gets [...]
Weekend Muvie Revue The Campaign The first, most base goal of any genre is escapism. They can rise above it or even cut it out entirely but they all start there. Before you get Dune, you get Captain Strong Fucks Aliens All Day. Before you get Dr Strangelove you get Nerdy Kid Becomes Popular and the [...]
Weekend Muvie Revue The Dark Knight Rises When I listen to music, I pretty much just look for emotion. I don’t really care how on-key the vocals are or melodic the tune is as long as there’s a bare minimum of listenability and beyond that all I want is to make my cold, dead heart [...]
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