The curated portfolio of film journalist Joe Lipsett
Parody movies are a tricky business. For every successful entry (Airplane! Not Another Teen Movie), there’s a corresponding mess of a movie made up of a series of poorly constructed jokes (often low hanging fruit) that barely comes together as a coherent film.
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After foregoing the tournament entirely in the first film, Mortal Kombat 2 finally delivers on the inter-dimesional fight to save Earthrealm.
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Credit to writer/director Maggie Gyllenhaal: The Bride! is a big, bold unconventional Warner Brothers property.
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You don’t need to know who Charli XCX is in order to understand The Moment. While there are undoubtedly Easter Eggs hidden in the film for devoted fans of the singer’s work, the genre mash-up still works reasonably well as a standalone text.
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The 2014 song “Anaconda” plays over the closing credits of the Sony reboot of the same name and the lyrics “My Anaconda don’t” seem particularly apt for this unfunny comedy horror.
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James Cameron returns with his third Avatar film, subtitled Fire and Ash, which acts as a direct sequel to The Way of Water (for better and worst).
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