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Film Bites: Jan. 21-28

FILM BITES is a weekly update on the most notable updates in the world of film and pop culture. Fantastic Four Teaser Premieres (Finally)  There it is. Finally, a trailer in all its glory and its . . . well, we’re not sure exactly what it is still. Far from…

The American “American Sniper” Debate of America

It’s a telling trend in all media, but most often in film, to slap the word “American” as a adjective in a title, usually if they can’t think of anything better. Sometimes this is justified (there is, after all, la deceivingly-pleasant flower called the American Beauty in existence) and sometimes it’s…

10 Blockbusters in 2015 With the Most Potential To Be Awesome or Terrible

Here’s the films that I predict will dominate the blockbuster conversation in 2015. These franchise-starters, continuers, sequels, reboots, re-quels etc. is Hollywood’s way of basically saying “More is more, right?” Disclaimer: if you disagree with my picks, that’s totally cool. Disagreement with my opinions however can be taken up with…

The 3 Essentials (and 2 non-essentials) of film in 2015

PHOTO FROM thecrunchnews.in/2014/12/31/2015-films-avengers-2-jurassic-world-seven-must-see-films-to-watch/ 1. Established properties rule the day Surprise, surprise, you can’t write a column about 2015 in movies without first mentioning the elephants in the room: the return of the Avengers and the War for Stars. This is the year the word and character of Ultron will be…