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The Apocalypse Drag

If everyone's seeing Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, you might want to be left behind.

By Mark Holcomb
Jun 20, 2012

Apocalypse movies are a venerable enough genre (and reliable enough as box-office cash spigots) to support a few lightweight, funny-sad-romantic entries every once in a while. Given the right touch, this approach can be just the antidote to the idea-free, effects-laden blockbusters and art house pity parties that dominate the...
Barbarianism's Underrated

Conan reboot, bloody good.

By Mark Holcomb
Aug 17, 2011

A cinematic reboot for the patron saint of 98-pound weaklings, Conan the Barbarian is both truer to the vision of its character's creator, Robert E. Howard, and more satisfyingly pulpy than John Milius's 1982 movie incarnation. Director Marcus Nispel, along with no fewer than three screenwriters, eschews the lugubrious mythmaking...

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