2017 has been a heckin crazyass six and a half months already, and life at the movies hasn't been too shabby. The Moviejawn crew and contribs Ian Hrabe, Sandy DeVito, Emmi Kurowski, Hunter Bush, Billy Russell, Liz Locke, Evan Popplestone, Wilson Holzhaeuser, Ryan Smillie, and Jessie Landivar Prescott sent us their top five films of 2017 (so far), along with thoughts on their #1 pick. And the winners are!
Read MoreDirected by James Gunn (2017)
by Francis Friel, The Projectionist
For all the mayhem let loose on screens over the last nine years, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has had a very basic, straight-forward through-line: dads are shit. And nowhere has this become more evident than in the Guardians of the Galaxy series.
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by Hunter Bush
Which do audiences enjoy more, a fresh idea or something familiar? Someone with a head for box office figures could probably make a decent case either way. Regardless, it seems like every time I go see a major release movie, the majority of trailers are for remakes, adaptations or, more and more frequently, ‘Long Gap’ sequels. This past week I saw The LEGO Batman Movie which had seven trailers preceding it. Two were regular sequels (Cars 3 & Despicable Me 3), two were adaptations (Power Rangers & Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets), two were inspired by some outside phenomena (The LEGO Ninjago Movie / toys & The Emoji Movie / emojis), leaving only one as an apparently original idea. That film? The Boss Baby.
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