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Tag: Movies

The Open Man’s 31 Movies of Halloween: A Nightmare on Elm Street

Posted by Kyle Kensing on October 1, 2018

Throughout the month of October, The Open Man spotlights its favorite horror movies to set the mood for the season. Gore, jump-scares set to loud musical transitions, auxiliary characters present only to pad body counts: These are not the necessary ingredients for an effective horror film. Horror intended to frighten works best when the audience…

Q&A: College Football Flops; John Wick 3

Posted by Kyle Kensing on June 6, 2018

Q&A makes a triumphant return to The Open Man, and I really have to take my hat off to you readers. This week's round of questions are collectively the best in this column's history, starting off with a John Wick-inspired bang. I won't belabor the introduction, so let's get the requisite details out of the…

Film Talk Friday: In Praise of The Alternative Superhero Movie

Posted by Kyle Kensing on May 11, 2018May 11, 2018

Moviegoers can't get enough of superheroes. The Marvel Cinematic Universe's "ambitious crossover" event, Infinity War, passed 2015's Star Wars: The Force Awakens for the highest-grossing opening of all-time. Six of the top 11 top domestic box-office earners of 2017 -- Wonder Woman, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Spider-Man Homecoming, Thor Ragnarok, Justice League and Logan -- were superhero movies. This isn't a…

Role Players Grew Into Stars on Ash vs. Evil Dead

Posted by Kyle Kensing on May 7, 2018

Horror as a genre has long relied on singular, lead characters to tell stories. From the moment F.W. Murnau filmed a pointy-eared, fanged Max Schreck as Count Orlock in 1922's Nosferatu, horror's focal characters have almost exclusively been the very monsters audiences are meant to fear. Dracula. Wolf-Man. Michael Myers. Jason Voorhees. Freddy Krueger. Their…

Q&A: Ranking Basketball Movies; Balor Club After Wrestlemania

Posted by Kyle Kensing on April 6, 2018

Welcome to the first Friday of the academic calendar year with no college football nor basketball to look forward to. Action does not return to the gridiron for nearly five grueling months. This week marks the single longest stretch sans college basketball of the entire trip around the sun. But all is not lost, readers…

I Emailed Cobra Kai, and What Followed Made My Day

Posted by Kyle Kensing on March 24, 2018

Perhaps you have seen advertisements for YouTube's exclusive series Cobra Kai, a follow-up to the 1984 film Karate Kid. Now, I have railed previously in this space against Hollywood's creatively empty reliance on reboots and adaptations, but I will admit Cobra Kai piqued my interest. Comedic spins on old properties produced hilarious results with 2004's…

The Uncle Drew Trailer Is Here

Posted by Kyle Kensing on February 14, 2018

Kyrie Irving's alter ego, Uncle Drew, hits the big screen this June. The film arrives in theaters as summer blockbuster season is in full swing, suggesting Lions Gate has faith in the big-screen debut for the Celtics guard. The June 29 premier is no accident, either. The NBA Finals will have just ended, and you…

Reboots, Sequels and the Killing of Creativity

Posted by Kyle Kensing on January 24, 2018

CBS plans to reboot Murphy Brown, a popular television series that began its initial run 30 years ago and ended 20 years ago. This decision follows NBC relaunching Will & Grace, Netflix picking up the misadventures of the Tanners on Fuller House, the Disney Channel introducing Girl Meets World and ABC planning a Roseanne reboot…

A Christmas Story = Average. Yeah, I Said It.

Posted by Trenise Ferreira on December 23, 2017December 23, 2017

If you’re like me, one of the things you appreciate the most about the holiday season is incessantly watching Christmas movies. From the moment the dishes are cleared on Thanksgiving night through Christmas Eve, it’s All Christmas Everything up in here, as far as I’m concerned. From the old school, stop-motion classics such as “Jack…

Christmas Movie Roundup: Holiday Inn is Sooooo Problematic in 2017

Posted by Trenise Ferreira on December 22, 2017December 22, 2017

If you’re like me, one of the things you appreciate the most about the holiday season is incessantly watching Christmas movies. From the moment the dishes are cleared on Thanksgiving night through Christmas Eve, it’s All Christmas Everything up in here, as far as I’m concerned. From the old school, stop-motion classics such as “Jack…

Christmas Movie Roundup: The McCallisters of Home Alone are Awful

Posted by Trenise Ferreira on December 21, 2017December 21, 2017

If you’re like me, one of the things you appreciate the most about the holiday season is incessantly watching Christmas movies. From the moment the dishes are cleared on Thanksgiving night through Christmas Eve, it’s All Christmas Everything up in here, as far as I’m concerned. From the old school, stop-motion classics such as “Jack…

Christmas Movie Roundup: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

Posted by Trenise Ferreira on December 20, 2017December 20, 2017

If you’re like me, one of the things you appreciate the most about the holiday season is incessantly watching Christmas movies. From the moment the dishes are cleared on Thanksgiving night through Christmas Eve, it’s All Christmas Everything up in here, as far as I’m concerned. From the old school, stop-motion classics such as “Jack…

I Really Hate the How The Grinch Stole Christmas Movie

Posted by Kyle Kensing on December 11, 2017December 11, 2017

Christmas cinema is an exercise in contrasts. The good is often excellent, with classics such as A Christmas Story, It's A Wonderful Life and Christmas Vacation. But the bad? Whew, buddy, is the bad ever bad. Were I ever to compile a definitive list of the worst films ever -- and that might be a…

FRIGHT-Day: The Underappreciated Genius of Horror Comedy

Posted by Kyle Kensing on October 20, 2017October 20, 2017

Social unrest provided a cornerstone in the various boom periods for horror cinema. For example, the genre's Golden Age in the first half of the 1930s coincided with the worsening of the Great Depression. Hollywood's Pre-Code era and the genuine anxiety of the time produced classics like Freaks, and the various Universal Studios monster franchises,…

FRIGHT-Day: Friday the 13th and The Rise & Fall of Slashers

Posted by Kyle Kensing on October 13, 2017October 13, 2017

How fortuitous that the second installment in The Open Man October FRIGHT-Day falls on Friday the 13th! That's a Yahtzee for all horror movie buffs. The month in which Halloween falls also having a Friday the 13th combines the two most famous entries into the slasher genre. For those unfamiliar with the nomenclature, the label…

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