Best of the Rest

The Jurassic Park franchise came roaring back once again with newcomers the Spinosaurus and William H. Macy! Audiences and critics had enough of the dinosaur movies by 2001 but today all we want to t…

In 1993, Jurassic Park became the highest grossing movie of all time. Naturally, a sequel would follow and just 4 years later audiences flocked back to theaters for The Lost World. Despite Steven Spi…

In the year 2000, Ron Howard and Jim Carrey teamed up to bring a Dr Seuss story to life for the very first time! Although a financial success, critics weren't enthusiastic about the movie and audienc…

The new Benoit Blanc murder mystery is streaming now on Netflix, and we're back this week for a bonus episode about all the things we loved in the new Rian Johnson film! 

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There comes a time in every action movie star's career where they make the family friendly holiday movie, and for Arnold Schwarzenegger that movie was Jingle All The Way. Critics hated it, but audien…

In back to back years in the late 90s, a film was released about a living snowman named Jack Frost that was poorly received by critics and bombed at the box office. We are talking about the one that …

Two years after the surprise hit movie Home Alone, Kevin McAllister's family has done it again: They're on vacation without Kevin. After praising the original film, critics were far less kind about t…

007 month comes to an end with SPECTRE, the penultimate Daniel Crag James Bond film. Despite the return of Blofeld to the franchise, the film was regarded by many as the weakest entry in the current …

40 years of 007 movies culminated with Die Another Day, starring Pierce Brosnan and Halle Berry. Today, this movie can be found at the bottom of many James Bond movie rankings. But all we want to tal…

After Roger Moore retired from the role, Timothy Dalton got the nod as the next actor to play James Bond. Unfortunately his tenure only lasted two movies.

Today we explore all the best parts of his fi…

Next up in 007 month is the final Roger Moore outing as Bond, James Bond! Critics and audiences at the time were not impressed by A View To A Kill, but today all we're talking about is what the movie…

We're kicking off 007 month with Diamonds Are Forever, the final Sean Connery appearance in the Eon Productions series of James Bond films. But that's not all! We're celebrating our 80th episode with…

After 8 films in the franchise split across multiple timelines, the decision was made to reboot the Halloween series with a remake of John Carpenter's 1978 classic. Rob Zombie served as both writer a…

A crossover between the Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th franchises was first teased on-screen in 1993, but it would take 10 years before the release of Freddy vs Jason. After all the anti…

The original film in the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise is among the best reviewed movies in the slasher genre. The sequel, not so much. But today we are just focusing on what the movie does well!…

Jason X was released in 2002, officially ending the longest gap between movies in the Friday the 13th franchise. But if you asked critics, the gap wasn't long enough.  Today all we want to talk about…

The "cash in on millennial's nostalgia" and "dark and gritty reboot" genres collided in 2017 and the result was Power Rangers, and slightly more violent and less colorful take on the popular children…

Over 40 years after Gojira made the giant monster a pop culture icon, Hollywood finally decided to make their own attempt with 1998's Godzilla starring Matthew Broderick. Unfortunately it failed to i…

Nearly 20 years after Brendan Fraser's movie, The Mummy was not only given the reboot treatment but was also poised to launch a new cinematic universe called Dark Universe. One poor box office perfor…

When it was clear that a Ghostbusters 3 was never going to happen, Sony rebooted the franchise with Ghostbusters: Answer The Call. The movie stars Kirsten Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon, and L…