Have you ever wanted to see a Santa movie with low-end production values and a super-mega-jacked St. Nick? Well look no further, because Filmcore scribes Armani Barron and Alex Kirschenbaum dove deep into the dregs of 1996 to view ...
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Getting Ripped With Kids: A “Santa With Muscles” Christmas Exchangecore
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The Rocky Balboa Movie Power Rankings
Note: This list was originally published on December 9th, 2015, but has been modified to include and rank the recently-released “Creed II.” So, as I really hope you know by now, the “Rocky” series has ...
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The Ultimate Holiday Movie: “Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas”
“Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas” ranks as perhaps the ultimate holiday movie. Brilliant Danny Elfman music augments gorgeous stop-motion animation photography spearheaded by director Henry Selick that depicts the lyrical tale of Jack Skellington ...
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Can You Hear Us Above This Noise? An “Altered States” Critical Exchangecore
The late English director Ken Russell must have been a huge proponent of watching Fellini films really, really blitzed. His 104 minute-long tribute to mushrooms, “Altered States,” is a relatively cogent exploration of the drug ...
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Brynner on the Loose in “Westworld” ’73: A Critical Exchangecore
It may surprise you to learn, dear reader, that HBO’s blockbuster smash series “Westworld,” about to embark on its second season, was actually a remake of a 1973 Michael Crichton/Yul Brynner sci-fi classic. Armani Barron ...
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“King Kong vs. Godzilla” ’63: A Critical Exchangecore
Are you pumped for “Kong vs. Godzilla” in 2020, dear reader? Featuring two slick, lifeless digital beasties destroying major cities but leaving each other virtually unscathed, just in case there’s enough interest to justify a ...
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“Atomic” Bore: A Critical Exchangecore
Armani Barron and Alex Kirschenbaum dissect whether or not the sleekly-marketed Charlize Theron retro-spy adventure “Atomic Blonde” is actually cool… or if it was all just a disappointing tease (the name of this post might ...
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The DCEU Finally Captures Some “Wonder”
Over the past two weeks, your trusty Filmcore panel of (in alphabetical order) Armani Barron, Alex Kirschenbaum, and Emily NS saw Patty Jenkins’s “Wonder Woman,” the best movie in the DC Extended Universe that began ...
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Box Office Futures Listcore: Alien Vs. Batgirl
THE BOX OFFICE FUTURES RETURN, after a protracted absence. In this weekend’s edition, we are confronted by two pivotal questions: 1. In this clash of two freshman franchise titans, can Batgirl’s latest flick put up ...
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Does Everybody Want Alex’s 2016 Year-End Movie Power Rankings?
Before we get cracking with my 2016 power rankings, I have some housekeeping to do with you, dear readers. The first item: you’ll notice that my 2016 movie intake is significantly down from my 2015 ...