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By: T.J. “What’s your secret? Mellow jazz? Bongo drums? Huge bag of weed?” Mulligan

After 5 years of individual cinematic releases and plenty of word-of-mouth hype as build-up The Avengers has finally hit theaters. Actually, hit may be a bit of an understatement. The thing has EXPLODED into…

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By: T.J. “Ruff… Ruff…” Mulligan

Sometimes, as the old saying goes, silence can speak volumes. A parent’s scornful furrowing of their eyebrows can let their child know they are in trouble; a smile across the face of someone you haven’t seen in a while can let you know they’re happy to once…

I figured this would be an appropriate day to post this since I fully expect this movie to take home a bunch of awards at tonight’s Oscars.

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By: T.J. “No one likes putting a dick in their mouth” Mulligan

We’re all going to die. This is not news to anyone, let alone those with enough cognitive capacity to access the internet and read a review for a movie about cancer. In fact, the internet has done much to alter our views of death….

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By: T.J. “I don’t know how many times I chased down leads based on women’s intuition” Mulligan

If you’re like me you have a fairly active imagination. You’re driving down the road and up ahead you see a medium-sized canvas bag. Most likely it’s filled with clothes or something equally…

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By: T.J. “I’m not going to let you rape my friend on Christmas Eve” Mulligan

Few genres have seemingly less in common than that of the stoner comedy and the Christmas/Holiday movie. The former usually includes raunch and/or gross-out humor, immature jokes and excessive drug usage and nudity,…

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By: T.J. “maniacal laugh… maniacal laugh…” Mulligan

By the time the closing credits to 2008’s Forgetting Sarah Marshall started rolling across the screen, a few things were made abundantly clear: A) Jason Segel was a runny man who could write a funny movie, B) Jason Segel was a funny man who…

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By: T.J. “If you ever wonder where your dreams come from, look around; this is where they’re made” Mulligan

Major motion picture production is an over 100 year-old process. Think about that; that’s over a centuries worth of work, stories and history all captured on film, preserved for the…

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By: T.J. “If you lose this war don’t blame me” Mulligan

It’s quite amazing when one thinks about just how long the motion picture industry has been around. To put it into some perspective most people alive today have never seen a film released without spoken dialogue (unless it was done for…

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By: T.J. “Bananas in the refrigerator? What are you, Puerto Rican?” Mulligan

For anyone still grappling internally with the concept let me spell this out for you: being friends with benefits with someone usually does not work out well. It just doesn’t. Yet, despite the thousands of times it’s…

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By: T.J. “wait a minute, buddy, you just done some jackassin’” Mulligan

The family unit, struggling against the odds to create a new life after their old one has been forcibly ripped away. It’s the stuff of great dramatic storytelling, sure, but it was an all too real fact in Depression-era…