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Welcome to the Jungle is an entirely likable comedy that once again illustrates the timeless truism that so long as he can stop being a pushover, the smart nerd always wins and gets the girl while the coarse, aggressive d**khead gets his face righteously kicked by Jean-Claude Van Damme.

Enemies Closer is an enjoyable popcorn flick that that doesn’t seek to be anything more than what it is, and what it is should quite please JCVD’s legion of loyal, enthusiastic fans. And, yes, he still kicks ass.

Ultimately, Shadow Recruit is exactly like every other Tom Clancy-inspired thriller: fine and forgettable.

A new documentary, Doomed!, is coming that sets out to answer the question of why the Roger Corman produced Fantastic Four in the mid nineties was never released, and it's conspiracy almost as deep as the Kennedy assassination.

Although beautifully filmed, acted, and realized, one’s enjoyment of Her is based on how deeply one buys into the film’s central conceit: the love between a man and his operating system.

Dallas Buyers Club is a well-acted, well-made film, the exact type that one can expect during the push toward Oscar season. It just doesn’t live up to the transcendence it so desperately proclaims.

The New Year's Day Film tradition is about more than entertainment or opening the year with something enjoyable. It’s about establishing a state of mind, acknowledging that things aren’t perfect, never will be, but remaining focused on what’s most important.

Lego and Brian Anderson have released the first episode of Minifig Theater in which the famous interrogation scene in 'The Dark Knight' is hilariously recreated.

'The Wolf of Wall Street' was never going to be as universally appreciated as much of its creators’ previous work, but that’s kind of the point. It is meant to be ridiculous, both through its characters’ actors and through the fact that they are allowed carry them out.

Whether "American Hustle" is the sign of a brilliant work by a confident filmmaker or a haphazard jumble by an indulgent one is up for the viewer, but even with its numerous detours, it entertains through an outstanding cast, strong dialog and a very solid sense of place and style.

No matter how hard life gets there are always reasons to live, and at Pop Mythology we find that pop culture alone gives us more than enough reasons to endure. And so with 2014 coming on fast, here is our list of the stuff we anticipate most.

Maybe my sense of time has become warped but didn’t they just come out with an Apes movie only last year? Dawn of the Apes, eh? Sounds like they’re trying to play off of Dawn of the Dead, especially with that creepy, zombie-esque close-up shot of the ape. I dunno. The …

Like movies themselves, casinos are monuments to the things we long for. In this spirit, here's a list of some of my favorite movies that either have important casino scenes or, in a few cases, almost entirely take place in or near casinos.

"Game of Thrones" star Emilia Clarke has been officially confirmed to play Sarah Connor in the planned Terminator reboot and we, for one, are thrilled about it.

"The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" is entertaining enough and an improvement over the previous film that fixes many problems from the original. Still, someone desperately needs to teach Jackson the importance of leaving some things off screen or unspoken.