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Anytime something gets so big that soccer moms are into it, we can't help but turn into quasi-hipster elitists. When every passenger on our flight was reading a copy of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo [...]

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If there was an Academy Award given for Best Cancer Comedy, 50/50 would win in a landslide. It would also be the only movie nominated... possibly ever. Despite the serious topic (a seemingly healthy 20-something who [...]

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Whether it was a new appreciation for bowling or White Russians, an understanding of nihilism or discovering the unfortunate consequences of using the back door with a stranger, everyone learned something from The Big Lebowski. [...]

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There are only really two reasons to keep your cable tv: live sports and the Food Network. Everything else you could possibly want to watch is available for streaming on one of the many sites [...]

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If you have a brother, you remember some epic fights from when you two were kids. They all started innocently enough with Nerf guns, plastic swords or water balloons, but somehow always ended with a gaping [...]

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Rarely would we consider shelling out close to 50 bucks on a movie without it including a bag of popcorn and the likelihood of some post-date action. We would, however, spend it on a copy of [...]

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There are certain movies that are staples in every guy's collection, City of God is not one of them. Whenever we mention the movie we are usually met with blank stares, clearly fake acknowledgment or—in one [...]

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The Hangover II used that well-known Hollywood formula of taking what works and adding a monkey. This formula rarely works for epic period pieces or emotional dramas, but it works fantastically for drunken comedies. The Hangover [...]

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We're just going to put this out there: If J.J. Abrams and Steven Spielberg sat down and decided to direct and produce episodes of The Golden Girls we would watch them. When one of these [...]

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There are certain movies that belong in every man's Blu-ray collection. Some of us may be sci-fi types, some may lean towards Will Ferrell-esque comedies, others may go straight nudie flicks, but whatever your preference, films [...]

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Somewhere in a box in your basement is a copy of "The Low-End Theory" from A Tribe Called Quest. If not that, at least the cassette single of "Scenario." It was one of those albums that had [...]

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Scarface was originally released before one of our interns was even born, in the almost-archaic early 80s... but it never seems to be out of the spotlight for more than a few years before it [...]

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Yes, we know this is not the entire Coen Brothers collection, and yes, we know there are some big-time movies missing (emphasis on "big-time"), but still it's the Coen's and even a Lebowski-less collection is [...]

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"Special Editions" of movies that are already out on DVD are rarely worth the purchase if you already own the regular copy. There are however a few exceptions where we will add the new Special Edition [...]

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We can count on one hand the amount of stereotypically great movies that Rutger Hauer has been in, but it would take more fingers and toes than any normal human being has to count all [...]

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