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Hops and Box Office Flops: ‘WILD WILD WEST – So Many Spiders’

September 21, 2020 0 Comments

Oh Wild Wild West, how did it go so wrong? Will Smith was literally crushing it in the years leading up to the epic Western misfire. He’d embodied the cool renegade cop...

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Hops and Box Office Flops: ‘HACKERS – Crash and Burn’

September 3, 2020 0 Comments

Hackers is the 1990s personified. From its aesthetic to its central narrative, everything in it screams the decade that it’s rooted in. This is both a good and a bad thing. In...

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Hops and Box Office Flops: ‘THE BIG LEBOWSKI – The Pod Abides’

August 28, 2020 0 Comments

The Big Lebowski—as shocking as it may seem today—was not a smash hit upon its release in March of 1998. Far from it, in fact. On a budget of $15 million,...

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Hops and Box Office Flops: ‘CONGO – Smart Gorillas, Dumb Script’

July 20, 2020 0 Comments

Congo, released in June of 1995, came hot on the heels of the mega hit Jurassic Park. Like that film, Congo was based on a novel by Michael Crichton. It was also a globe-trotting...

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Hops and Box Office Flops: ‘FACE/OFF – Whee! What a Predicament!’

June 4, 2020 0 Comments

Face/Off is bonkers. Plain and simple. It is two actors—in the relative prime of their careers—making the zaniest choices imaginable, and having a damn good time doing it. For that reason—despite how...

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Hops and Box Office FLOPS: ‘THE GHOST AND THE DARKNESS – Oh, Here They Come…They’re Man-Eaters’

May 18, 2020 0 Comments

The Ghost and the Darkness is an account of the Tsavo man-eaters—a pair of lions who terrorized a Kenyan-Ugandan railway construction camp from March to December of 1898. The history of the...

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Hops and Box Office Flops: ‘DANTE’S PEAK – Handsome Harry vs the Volcano’

May 1, 2020 0 Comments

Dante’s Peak is paint-by-numbers disaster cinema. You take the everyman hero—in this case, vulcanologist Harry Dalton, whose played with a steely intensity by Pierce Brosnan—and you place him in a scenario where...

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Hops and Box Office Flops: ‘SPEED 2 – Just Crash Already’

March 24, 2020 0 Comments

Speed 2: Cruise Control is an exemplar of an awful sequel. Is it bigger? Sure. Did it cost more? Most definitely. Is it more entertaining? Not even close. The origins of its issues...

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