Some say that all Hollywood is these days is unoriginal sequels and remakes , and they aren't entirely wrong. However, not all franchises are created equally, and there are some crappy remakes that I will always be willing to see. My favorite franchises that have been repeatedly rehashed are Batman and Willy Wonka. I'm still conflicted over whether the OG Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971) is better than the remake Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005). The remake came out when I w…

Cue that John Williams score

The film bro community is one of the most oppressed groups in modern history. Well, not really, but they don't deserve a lot of the slack they get online. Sure, there is something annoying about a pretentious guy trying to overexplain well-known filmmakers to you like you're a baby. Unfortunately the label of “film bro” has gotten so muddied over the past couple of years, it is now used to describe anyone with slightly non-normative tastes in movies. The term “film bros” used to represent a gro…

Somebody make these

It's a classic

“Film Twitter” has been going strong for years now, and sometimes the threads and debates can get seriously tiring. While some people praise the CGI or plot of Marvel movies , others distance themselves from the big box office MCU movies in favor of films they think to be cooler. You know, like Uncut Gems. There's also the tendency to start threads where people hate on tropes or cinematographic styles. These threads happen again and again, and honestly, the hate starts to wear on an innocent mo…

Even if you're not on Film Twitter, you've probably heard about some of the drama surrounding the upcoming movie Don't Worry Darling starring Florence Pugh and Harry Styles. The scandal began when the public found out that director Olivia Wilde had a love affair with Styles while filming the movie, merely months after splitting with her husband, Jacob Sudeikis. Rumors of beef between Wilde and Pugh have since arisen, which were only exacerbated when it was revealed that outside of the Venice Fi…

They can't let Mexico have all the fun.

There is no teen comedy more beloved than Tina Fey's Mean Girls . The 80s had Heathers , the 90s had Clueless , and the 2010s had uhhhh Booksmart ? Edge of Seventeen ??? The downturn of good teen comedies in the 2010s proves that Mean Girls reigns supreme. It's one of the only movies that timelessly captures the emotional turmoil that teenage girls experience daily, and for that, we will forever be grateful. While some might assume that the titular mean girls refer to the plastics, there are so…

An L for nepotism

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The newest Baz Luhrmann flick Elvis opened last weekend. While some don't approve of the revisionist history that the film promotes, the movie has generally been well-received so far. One aspect of the film that's gotten some attention on Twitter is the titular character's appearance in the late 70s. Let's just say that right before he died, Elvis looked…different.

Marvel Fans vs. Film Bros seems to be a tale as old as time as far as online discourse goes. Every couple of months, this meaningless debate over the correct way to consume media is regurgitated for everyone to gobble up. Despite its repetitiveness, the world can't help but get caught up in the drama once again.

Anybody can be Roger Ebert these days, and it's all because of a little app called Letterboxd. Letterboxd allows movie fans to leave their own reviews without any gatekeeping. These reviews range from extensive, lengthy analyses to short quips. The app has gained massive popularity over the past couple of years, and with that, funny reviews have transcended into memes. The most iconic Letterboxd review that has turned into a meme was a review for Joker (2019), where the reviewer claimed, “This…

He looks...good.

Twitter got a new main character yesterday. Writer Hanna Rosin went viral for her bad take in this now-deleted tweet. The movie in question, Fire Island , is a romantic comedy based on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice which follows a group of friends traveling to the titular gay vacation destination of Fire Island. Fans of the movie mocked Rosin for her take that a film about Asian gay men needed to pass the Bechdel test to have any merit. Some feminist film fans use the Bechdel test to determ…