2017-03-13 00:43
The titular ape does not show up until about forty minutes into Merian C. Cooper’s classic King Kong (1933); the
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2017-03-07 01:11
It seems likely that the creators of X-Men films will treat James Mangold’s Logan as a story apart from the
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2017-02-26 01:10
Jordan Peele is a man of gratuitous talent. Best known as one half of the now legendary sketch comedy duo
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2017-02-17 01:14
At the end of Girls’ fifth, and penultimate, season, things were looking pretty positive for the show’s central septet with
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2017-02-14 11:30
We’ve all heard beautiful tales of monogamous members of the animal kingdom. A pair of swans mating for life or
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2017-01-29 11:08
The political right in America complains about celebrities and the “Hollywood elite” the way that everyone else complains about Mondays.
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2017-01-28 15:01
It is not until Gold’s final act that what the film is about comes into focus; prior to that the
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2017-01-24 02:07
The Green Bay Packers have given us plenty to write about over the last few months. The ride came to
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2017-01-23 00:43
Frequent readers of The Renaissance Fan know that we strive to fill a particular niche. We are not a sports
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2017-01-19 01:42
Live By Night plays a bit like The Godfather, Part II if Francis Ford Coppola had been very careful to
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2017-01-18 11:48
There are several alternative titles for this particular article including “How important are penalties in sports”, “Which sport requires the
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2017-01-15 11:42
Damien Chazelle has music in his bones. To call the writer-director’s latest film, La La Land, a musical would certainly
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2017-01-14 11:34
With the 2016 fantasy football regular season behind us we decided to organize our thoughts while the action was still
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2017-01-11 02:38
Earlier the season we analyzed trends in points allowed and scored per game by NFL teams and what that meant
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2017-01-10 02:38
Here’s a frustrating scenario, one in which we have all been: In the course of conversation amongst friends, a subject
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2017-01-08 11:52
When The Daily Show started in 1996 (with Craig Kilborn at the desk) it’s hard to imagine that anyone would
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2017-01-06 04:01
Kenneth Lonergan’s Manchester By The Sea is a movie about heartbreak, real, lasting heartbreak, and how, while it may loosen
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2017-01-05 01:24
The 2016 NFL regular season is now in the books and the fantasy football trophies have been handed out. This
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2017-01-02 11:10
The news broke a few weeks back that the release of Toy Story 4 will be delayed. For many fans
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2016-12-24 16:31
Passengers has a premise that could have made for an interesting, dark Sci-Fi thinker: A man aboard a spacecraft headed
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2016-12-19 02:49
With the help of an improbable late-game bomb from Aaron Rodgers to Jordy Nelson the Green Bay Packers defeated the
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2016-12-18 01:48
There is a lot of Star Wars stuff in Rogue One but there is not a ton of Star Wars
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2016-12-10 11:12
As a part of our recurring series of articles on the history of Saturday Night Live (SNL) we did a
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2016-12-04 14:51
Wide receivers are pretty widely recognized as the divas of the NFL. There are certain workload guarantees in the NFL,
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2016-12-01 12:46
Saturday Night Live (SNL) is about as iconic as TV shows get. There have been 809 episodes over the last
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2016-11-26 18:35
It’s official, the NFL is slipping a bit. What looked like an anomaly early in the season has become a
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2016-11-23 15:10
The Walking Dead suffers from too many episodes. The last three episodes, “The Cell,” “Service,” and “Go Getters” have covered
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2016-11-21 00:47
In terms of quality, there is a pretty high floor for Hollywood boxing dramas. While there are certainly outliers, both
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2016-11-16 01:38
As a part of our work here at The Renaissance Fan we spend a lot of time on the Internet
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2016-11-15 00:33
The release of Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival is profoundly well-timed. This is a film that preaches the importance of communication and
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2016-11-13 01:38
We are at a point in time where half of the country is very happy about a recent outcome, and
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2016-11-12 00:45
When Max and I were first conceptualizing this site, we decided that, while our writing would be informed by our
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2016-11-07 02:05
Hacksaw Ridge is filled with the things that Mel Gibson likes: gruesome violence, boys being boys, Christianity, lame dick jokes,
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2016-11-05 02:29
One of the great magic tricks of Christopher Nolan’s Inception (2010) is in how that film is filled with wall-to-wall
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2016-11-03 10:47
Here at The Renaissance Fan we try very hard to avoid politics. Our site is devoted to sports, movies, and
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2016-11-01 23:57
Hope was the message of this week’s Walking Dead, and it is refreshing one given the borderline vulgar hopelessness of
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2016-10-31 01:41
For some fantasy football obsessed fans this question will seem ridiculous, but we’ll explain the premise of this article more
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2016-10-28 23:57
It is no secret that the 2016 World Series is an historic one. More historic than most as it is
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2016-10-26 01:31
If the cliffhanger ending of The Walking Dead’s sixth season was a bit of an upturned middle finger, “The Day
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2016-10-25 10:50
The Chicago Cubs bandwagon is filling up quickly with fans from around the country as they set out to capture
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2016-10-24 23:46
Jack Reacher, former military policeman and current detective/drifter has one quality that makes him great at his job: He is
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2016-10-24 03:09
“This is not your parent’s idea of heaven and hell” That’s one of the early lines in the pilot to
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2016-10-22 19:11
The 2016 Presidential Election has been unconventional to say the least. Many of the usual customs have been abandoned including
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2016-10-21 10:17
The phrase “Defense wins championships” is so worn out at this point that many NFL fans may have forgotten that
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2016-10-18 01:45
The greatest sin committed by Gavin O’Connor’s The Accountant is that Jeffrey Tambor plays an incarcerated man and not once
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2016-10-18 00:44
Less than a week ago The Renaissance Fan dolled out the second endorsement in the site’s history to Odell Beckham Jr. of
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2016-10-11 18:20
Odell Beckham, Jr. is an emotive football player. He is prone to sideline tantrums, tantrums that sports journalists call “a
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2016-10-08 00:15
The first act of The Girl on the Train feels like a movie that could be embraced as a camp
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2016-10-04 18:39
The sight of a billowing American flag with the blazing inferno of a burning oil rig in the background is
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2016-09-25 14:02
There has been a lot of critical griping in recent years about Hollywood’s insistence upon remaking and relaunching old franchises
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2016-09-25 10:02
Has this ever happened to you?: It’s a rainy Saturday with not much else to do. So you plop down
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2016-09-23 14:18
Is the question that this article’s title poses patently ridiculous? Yes. Mostly. But late last week, mixed in with more
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2016-09-22 10:03
From a pop cultural standpoint, hosting Saturday Night Live is a big deal. Only about 20 people get to do
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2016-09-19 14:09
Fans of The Beatles are unlikely to learn anything new from The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring
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2016-09-18 14:36
Fans of Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001) and, if such people exist, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004), who go
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2016-09-18 10:13
Saturday Night Live is the epitome of cultural institutions, combining television, popular music, current events, and high powered celebrity hosts.
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2016-09-15 10:41
Over the opening weekend of the NFL’s 2016 season The Renaissance Fan’s own Frank Anderson (with some contributions from myself)
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2016-09-13 17:35
If Clint Eastwood’s Sully was not based upon a true story it would almost certainly be dismissed as highly derivative
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2016-09-13 10:15
Recently the interwebs swooned when actor Ryan Reynolds made some fun and sweet social media proclamations of affection to his
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2016-09-11 10:09
A founding principle here at The Renaissance Fan is that we believe sports fandom is every bit as geeky as
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2016-09-10 18:54
The final week of Bachelor in Paradise, or The Bachelor and The Bachelorette for that matter, is not the show’s
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2016-09-09 10:16
A founding principle here at The Renaissance Fan is that we believe sports fandom is every bit as geeky as
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2016-09-08 10:11
There has been a lot of really solid analyses that demonstrate that running backs do not age well. Running back
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2016-09-05 10:37
Here at The Renaissance Fan we are firm believers that women are just as funny as men. That’s a statement
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2016-09-04 11:47
First thing’s first, any number of Bachelor fans might have been wondering whether Evan, a doctor specializing in erectile dysfunction,
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2016-09-01 12:32
Think of a simple task that you do hundreds or thousands of times each year. Maybe it’s taking your phone
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2016-08-29 13:25
Recently the BBC published a list of the 100 greatest films of the 21st Century because 2016 is as good
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2016-08-28 10:42
As great as it feels to draft that stud running back in the first round of your fantasy football draft,
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2016-08-27 12:36
The editors on Bachelor in Paradise are damn poets. Having already triumphed this season by vengefully creating the illusion that
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2016-08-25 12:13
In an episode of the spectacular Stranger Things one of the trio of precocious preteen boys that make up the
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2016-08-24 20:18
Drafting a kicker in fantasy football is typically an afterthought. And it should be that way. Most serious fantasy players
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2016-08-22 12:15
The 2016 Summer Olympics have come to a close. Rio pulled it off after all. There were some fantastic performances,
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2016-08-21 14:03
Football is a big deal in the south. You don’t need to watch Last Chance U on Netflix to learn
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2016-08-21 12:35
While a cagey owner can make trades and waiver wire pick-ups that can save a season, fantasy football is typically
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2016-08-20 11:49
The film chronicling the rise and fall of morally dubious-to-repugnant young men in semi-or-entirely illegal trade is not new concept.
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2016-08-18 12:27
There is something off about the version of the song “Almost Paradise” that plays over the opening credits of Bachelor
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2016-08-15 10:03
The Olympics are great. They bring the world together to celebrate and compete in an inclusive atmosphere. A host nation
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2016-08-14 10:37
The ceremonial first pitch in baseball is one of the best traditions in sports. It is a great way to
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2016-08-12 13:08
Those familiar with the work of screenwriting, and sometimes directing, duo Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen, or simply with Rogen’s
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2016-08-11 12:57
If The Bachelor and The Bachelorette are sister shows, The Bachelor in Paradise is their slutty cousin. We were not
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2016-08-10 10:40
Men and women are different. You don’t have to take that from me, ask any standup comedian in the 90’s.
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2016-08-09 10:59
9 Lives is a remarkable film in that it seems that no one involved at any level of its production
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2016-08-06 10:52
In America we love sports. And support for our teams runs deep. It also tends to run within state lines.
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2016-08-05 12:38
Toward the end of Suicide Squad, the titular team of villains comes together out of loyalty to one another to
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2016-08-03 14:26
Well it seems the time is upon us for The Bachelorette Season 12 finale. Jojo is left with a decision
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2016-08-01 10:12
Despite critical hosannahs, Spike Lee’s The 25th Hour did not garner much attention from audiences, nor from any awards-giving organization,
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2016-07-31 10:16
Our decision to do weekly reviews of ABC’s The Bachelorette this summer brought reality TV dating shows back into my
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2016-07-30 12:27
Jason Bourne promises a return to form for the Bourne series after the little-loved The Bourne Legacy (2012), boasting the
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2016-07-28 00:05
With the exception of Downton Abbey, British TV is not exactly beloved by the mainstream American audience. Sure, there are
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2016-07-27 01:12
Week 8 of The Bachelorette brings the drama right away, with the conclusion of last week’s “to be continued” rose
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2016-07-26 03:14
Amazon’s Red Oaks has many of the classic elements of an 80’s-set coming of age comedy: A protagonist working a
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2016-07-25 11:44
Comparisons of Netflix’s BoJack Horseman to Mad Men are apt. At its heart, the show is about the illusive nature
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2016-07-23 03:02
There is a lot of great stuff in Star Trek Beyond, unfortunately, all that great stuff doesn’t quite add up
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2016-07-22 09:39
Fans of Stephen King’s milieu will love Stranger Things, the Netflix program created by The Duffer Brothers, Matt and Ross.
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2016-07-21 10:04
Here’s a fun challenge for fans of popular TV shows: Can you guess the TV show based on a word cloud
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2016-07-20 12:23
It would really suck to be the Bachelorette candidate who gets sent home immediately after introducing the titular lady to
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2016-07-19 10:20
The villain of writer-director Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters is a sexist nerd with a chip on his shoulder. Sexist assholes started
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2016-07-17 10:01
With the NBA season at a close and the Olympics looming there have been plenty of headlines about which star
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2016-07-16 10:10
Old movies (25+ years old) are frequently racist; when they acknowledge the existence of gay people, they are usually homophobic;
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2016-07-14 14:57
After his 2007 epic, There Will Be Blood, director Paul Thomas Anderson went in a more intimate direction with 2012’s
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