When The Lion King first went into production, it was pitched as “Bambi in Africa meets Hamlet,” or, as one animator dubbed it, “Bamlet.” Drawing heavily on past stories, The Lion King still managed to create something entirely new. It was wildly successful among children and adults alike, and many Disney connoisseurs and critics insist that The Lion King reached heights that Disney has yet to match with another film.
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It will come as no surprise to know that there was a movie about the infamous and notorious Zodiac Killer, a lunatic who held an entire city in the grip of terror for decades.
Check out this list! This is a monster list, and ranges from big-budget thrillers to the lowest of the low—direct to video swill from schlockmeister Ulli Lommel. Better than half a dozen movies have been shot about the Zodiac, and it makes me wonder why, frankly.
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I truly, truly despise 
message it only gets worse. Princess Mononoke is
I Got Reasons to Hate On The
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Six episodes. All lunacy. God bless Furi Kuri
Six episodes. That’s right…just six episodes comprise FLCL, one of the wildest non-Nabeshin anime to ever hit the world upside the head with a Flying V guitar and speed off on a tiny Vespa scooter into the night. And man am I glad it did.
A Note of Advance Warning
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2007 was a dangerous time to make The Simpsons Movie. Critics and fans alike have been ho-humming the show in recent years, saying that it should be put to bed before it disgraced itself any further. In the midst of this decline, The Simpsons Movie appeared in theatres nationwide.
Now available on DVD, The Simpsons Movie remains firmly planted at an 88% “fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and it absolutely deserves it.
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Ah, Mark Wahlberg. Sure have come a long way since Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, haven’t you? Oh yeah…Vince Papale in Invincible, Dirk Diggler in Boogie Nights, and now, amazingly enough, you’re actually tasked to a film with none other than Peter Jackson—The Lovely Bones. And yet, you also took a turn around the conspiracy theory circuit as sniper extraordinaire Bob Lee Swagger in Shooter, a film of surprising depth in the midst of its gunplay.
Us moviegoers may not know that the shooting in Shooter was at least partially Wahlberg’s own chops on display—after training at the Front Sight Firearms Training Institute as preparation for the role, Wahlberg was actually able to hit a target at two thousand yards.
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There was a time when American moviegoers wanted simple villains: zombies, vampires, aliens, and other single-minded creatures that are easy to kill. While monster movies have their place in every summer blockbuster lineup, we’ve begun to demand a little more. Sometimes, you just want a nice postmodern psychopath.
Ironically, no two men better represent the Hollywood psychopath than two of the most divergent serial killers on screen: American Psycho’s Patrick Bateman, and Hannibal Lecter, the man who needs no introduction.
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Let me level with you up front, folks…I love John Carpenter movies and I hate Rob 
Zombie movies. John Carpenter is responsible for some of the best, brightest, most original movies ever seen by man.
Rob Zombie, meanwhile, is a second-rate schlock monger and exploitation specialist extraordinaire whose work would’ve been innovative back around 1974, when The Texas Chainsaw Massacre first came out.
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Proving that Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson will be movie buddies together until one of the two drops dead, Night at the Museum came out and did solidly well. Solidly? Who am I kidding? This sucker took in better than half a billion dollars. That’s billion with a “B”, as in “Boy that is a whole lot of money”.
You know, one of these days, I’m looking forward to seeing a seventy year old Stiller and Wilson doing Walter Matthau / Jack Lemmon roles. Think about that one for a second—Grumpy Old Starsky and Hutch. Yeah, I know. I got chills too.
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Like so many stories, it all begins with some friends who just want to party.
Does the world need another comedy about high school boys on a desperate quest to get laid? You wouldn’t think so, but Hollywood has plenty of room for more flicks like Superbad. Starring Arrested Development’s Michael Cera and budding “that guy” character actor Jonah Hill, Superbad is joyfully vulgar in a way that Clerks only aspired to be.
This tale of chivalry lends a certain depth to a high school student’s constant quest for alcohol: they’re more interested in impressing girls than getting wasted. Beneath it all lies the heart of the story; two close friends, who have been with each other for their entire lives, are afraid to be apart.
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