Unwinnable

It seems like every year the ticket prices and movie budgets go up a little more, but do the movies get better? Unwinnable’s picks for the ten best movies of 2012 were as diverse as we are, from documentaries to Bollywood musicals, indie dramas to franchise sequels. But when all was said and voted, these ten came out as the clear winners, with Marvel’s The Avengers as the far and away winner. Do you agree? Disagree? What does your top ten list look like? (more…)

This past summer, Christopher Nolan ended his “Dark Knight Trilogy” with The Dark Knight Rises, a movie set on bringing the Nolan Bat-Verse to a close. The reviews were mixed. Some praised the movie as a great ending to a great trilogy. Richard Roeper said it was “a majestic, gorgeous, brutal and richly satisfying epic” while others said it was bloated and slow with CNN’s Tom Charity saying the film was a “disappointingly clunky and bombastic conclusion a superior series.”

So where does the end of the trilogy go wrong? Does the trilogy have to have a planned ending in order to work? Or can the story be a product of public reception and directorial impetus? What’s so difficult about ending the trilogy? (more…)

“If they can make it there, they’ll make it anywhere.”

In this paraphrased line from “New York, New York,” Frank Sinatra summed up the role the Big Apple has played for superheroes across comic book history. (Sinatra was possibly himself a mutant with those freakish blue eyes.) After all, the vast majority of tall buildings a hero might leap in a single bound are located in New York City – or at least based on a real-life counterpart. (more…)

The blood had barely dried inside the Century Aurora 16 movie theater when many pundits were already jumping to conclusions in a single bound. (more…)

This weekend in 1946 the worlds first amusement park opened in Santa Claus, Indiana. It was called Santa Claus Land.  Sweltering summer weather be damned, let’s get our Santa costumes on and celebrate the weekend! (more…)

On July 20th, 1969, Neil Armstrong stepped on to the surface of the moon. He was a pretty cool guy and not afraid of anything. Go out this weekend and live life.

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Think back to the worst pain you ever experienced. Look past the event, the day, the situation, the reaction – just try to remember the physical sensation. Can you? (more…)