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Best Bad Action Movies: The Explosion Index
Every explosion in these films was earned. Not through narrative necessity, but through a filmmaker's absolute refusal to let things like 'physics' or 'plot' interfere with the detonation schedule.
Brick Hardcastle
Genre Specialist
Hallmark Movies: A Structural Engineering Report
Every Hallmark movie is the same movie. This is not a criticism. This is an architectural observation. The blueprints are public. The construction is fascinating.
Cheryl Champagne
Guilty Pleasures Correspondent
Neil Breen: The Auteur of Our Time
Five films. Five laptops destroyed. Five instances of the protagonist being a messianic figure who can hack any government on Earth. Neil Breen is the most consistent auteur working in cinema today.
World Cinema Desk
International Bureau
The Steven Seagal Filmography: A Sommelier's Guide
Fifty-three films. One facial expression. A career arc that begins at 'action star' and descends, magnificently, into 'man sitting in chair.' This is the Seagal experience.
Cheryl Champagne
Guilty Pleasures Correspondent
10 Action Movies That Commit
A movie either commits or it doesn't. These ten committed.
Brick Hardcastle
Genre Specialist
A Critical Appreciation of the Lifetime Christmas Movie
Twenty-three new originals this December. A veterinarian falls in love with a prince. A baker falls in love with a firefighter. The ambition is Versailles.
Cheryl Champagne
Guilty Pleasures Correspondent