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R0BTRAIN’s Bad Ass Cinema: Rob’s Hit List

By Robert Sutton ⋅ September 9, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Out of the 12 months of the year, two of those months are usually considered a wasteland for movie-going audiences; February and September. I suppose you could also include January to the list, but its usually filled with wide releases for Oscar pictures, so there’s usually good stuff out there, which is not the case [...]

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R0BTRAIN’s Bad Ass Cinema: Rob’s End of Summer Report Card

By Robert Sutton ⋅ September 1, 2008 ⋅ One comment

So Labor Day weekend is upon us and with it comes the end of the Summer movie season. While not the best summer ever, 2008 was a much needed improvement over 2007’s barrage of bloated disappointments. I’m happy to report that much of May, June, and July were even kind of spectacular at points, and [...]

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R0BTRAIN’s Bad Ass Cinema: WB’s Master Plan

By Robert Sutton ⋅ August 25, 2008 ⋅ 2 comments

First up, I’d like to apologize for my absence last week. I’ve finally got off of my butt and got out of the hellhole I was working in, but my new job, while paying me a considerable amount more money, is very time consuming and exhausting. Its an awesome job, and I’m really stoked about [...]

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R0BTRAIN’s Bad Ass Cinema: Superhero Lame-Off, Part 2

By Robert Sutton ⋅ August 11, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Welcome to the first post-Dark Knight column in nearly a month. This one’s probably going to be a quickie because I’ve been pretty swamped here lately. Between my girlfriend’s birthday today and starting a new job recently I’ve been constantly on the go, but I’m finally getting to finish up my list of the worst [...]

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R0BTRAIN’s Bad Ass Cinema: The Dark Revolution, Part 3 - I Believe in Harvey Dent

By Robert Sutton ⋅ August 5, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Another weekend, and Batman is still completely unstoppable at the box office. It’s been a long time since this type of craziness has been so unified for one film, and its awesome to be able to get behind a movie as good as this one. I was listening to a Kevin Smith interview recently and [...]

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R0BTRAIN’s Bad Ass Cinema: The Dark Revolution, Part 2 - Now There’s a Batman…

By Robert Sutton ⋅ July 30, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

So it’s been a week and Dark Knight fever has seemingly struck everywhere. Like the lowly criminals of Gotham City, its hard not to see Batman as being everywhere at once, wholly taking over our pop culture in a firestorm of popularity that we haven’t seen in since Spider-Man caused a similar sensation in 2002. [...]

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R0BTRAIN’s Bad Ass Cinema: The Dark Revolution, Part 1

By Robert Sutton ⋅ July 21, 2008 ⋅ 2 comments

Well, I wanted to follow-up last week’s Superhero Lame-off column with the rest of my list of the spectacularly awful Superhero fights that we’ve been given over the years, but I don’t think that I could possibly get my mind around anything else but Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight right now. The column ahead will [...]

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DiCaprio to play a Nazi colonel?

By Travis Leamons ⋅ July 16, 2008 ⋅ One comment

Variety is reporting that Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Bastards is searching for a co-financing partner to handle offshore territories for his WWII drama with intersecting storylines. Last week there was word that Tarantino was pursuing Brad Pitt about the possibility of playing the key role of Aldo Raine. Tarantino met with Pitt in France on Tuesday, [...]

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R0BTRAIN’s Bad Ass Cinema: Superhero Lame-Off, Part 1!

By Robert Sutton ⋅ July 15, 2008 ⋅ One comment

So coming up this week is the moment that fandom has been waiting with baited breath for all summer long. Sure, we’ve all been excited about Indy coming back and whether WALL·E would blow our minds (it did) or perhaps whether The Happening was going to be God awful (it was), but for some reason [...]

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R0BTRAIN’s Bad Ass Cinema: The Mid-Summer Report Card

By Robert Sutton ⋅ July 7, 2008 ⋅ 2 comments

So the July 4th weekend is now past, which means the summer is half over and because I’m a lazy craphead, this week’s column is a midsummer report card for a bunch of the big releases. Now, before I get started, I’ll go ahead and say that I did miss a lot of the
Comedies released [...]