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An Unsubstantiated Opinion: Rian Johnson’s perplexing relationship with Star Wars: The Last Jedi critics

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Anghus Houvouras on Rian Johnson’s perplexing relationship with Star Wars: The Last Jedi critics… When forging our opinions, we spend a unnecessary amount of time worrying about being on the ‘right’ side of an argument. When it comes to cinema, there is no ‘right’ and ‘wrong’. There are only widely varying feelings of the entire human […]

How Star Wars lost its luster

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Anghus Houvouras on the Star Wars franchise… Sic transit gloria. Glory fades. That’s the first thing that came to mind when I started thinking about how quickly the latest Star Wars movie came and went. It’s been just over a month since The Last Jedi was released and whether you loved the film or loathed […]

Cinematic Confessions: Looper and Guillermo del Toro

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Anghus Houvouras with his cinematic confessions on Looper and Guillermo del Toro… It’s a new year and time for a new column. This year I decided it was time to share some of the dirty little secrets that I don’t often discuss. To bare my soul each week, reaching into the deepest recesses of my […]

Maybe they shouldn’t have brought back Han, Luke & Leia to Star Wars

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Anghus Houvouras on whether Lucasfilm should have kept Han, Luke and Leia out of the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy… There are times where I feel like Star Wars has become my white whale. At some point in my life I marveled at its magnificence, but now I’ve become embittered by its existence which continues to […]

Is Finn from Star Wars a hero or a mentally imbalanced, disgruntled former employee?

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Anghus Houvouras on whether Star Wars’ Finn is a hero, or a mentally imbalanced, disgruntled former employee… If Star Wars: The Last Jedi has taught us anything, it’s that there are those who take the happenings of a galaxy far, far away a little too seriously. I didn’t like The Last Jedi. It was messy, […]

Why is everybody hating on Ready Player One?

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Anghus Houvouras on Ready Player One… Ready Player One. Ernest Cline’s huge hit of a novel came out in 2011 and was embraced by the geek community like few other novels in the 21st century. It was a highly coveted book even before it’s release when publishers engaged in a bidding war for the rights. […]

Why Warner Bros. should have left Zack Snyder’s DCEU alone

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Anghus Houvouras thinks Warner Bros. should have left Zack Snyder’s DCEU alone… Let’s go ahead and get all the vitriolic stuff out-of-the-way: Zack Snyder’s vision for the DC Extended Universe is divisive. Fans have been polarized for his emotionally obtuse versions of some of comics most iconic heroes. There are some of us who have […]

Can we all just admit the Golden Globes are kind of terrible?

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Anghus Houvouras on the Golden Globe Awards… This headline feels redundant, as if it’s a deeply held belief by 88% of the civilized world. The other 12% are made up of the members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and people like my wife who enjoy watching the red carpet fashion on display no matter […]

The Most Disappointing – Star Wars: The Last Jedi

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Anghus Houvouras on Star Wars: The Last Jedi (major spoilers follow)… It’s all been done. That song by Canada’s eighth best band Barenaked Ladies was bouncing around my head as I watched the latest installment of the Star Wars saga. A galaxy, far, far away isn’t nearly as exciting as it used to be. Not […]

Are franchise blockbusters too big to fail?

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Anghus Houvouras on whether franchise blockbusters are too big to fail… Sequels, prequels and reboots. Hollywood is in love with the familiar because more often than not it’s a safe bet. This year’s monumental blockbuster clusterfuck Justice League is proof of that. Can you think of a big studio film more maligned? More inherently flawed […]