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Award Winning comedy The Martian now just sci-fi drama The Martian

April 18, 2025 by Christopher ZF Leave a Comment

Ridley Scott’s comedy of space isolation returned to non-comedic origins

Filed Under: Featured, Movies Tagged With: Comedy, Matt Damon, The Golden Globes, The Martian

The King’s Ass

January 25, 2025 by thestakemag Leave a Comment

Is Sean Bean Doomed?

Filed Under: Featured, Movies, TV Tagged With: Boromir, Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings, Sean Bean, The Martian

The 10 Best Films of 2015 *UPDATED

December 18, 2024 by Christopher ZF 3 Comments

A great year for adults at the movies. No superheroes anywhere.

Filed Under: Featured, Movies, Reviews Tagged With: Best of, Disney, Ex Machina, Experimenter, Inside Out, Mad Max, Pixar, The Martian, Top 10

The Martian is the light-hearted Ridley Scott film the world has waited for

October 1, 2025 by Christopher ZF 2 Comments

An audience pleaser through and through.

Filed Under: Featured, Movies, Reviews Tagged With: Matt Damon, Ridley Scott, Sci-Fi, The Martian

Ridley Scott’s 10 “Best” Films

September 29, 2025 by Christopher ZF Leave a Comment

This is hard because, honestly, I don’t really like Ridley Scott.

Filed Under: Featured, Movies Tagged With: Alien, Blade Runner, Gladiator, Prometheus, Ridley Scott, SIgourney Weaver, The Martian

The Martian trailer looks a lot like a Ridley Scott Picture. Which is becoming a problem.

June 10, 2025 by Christopher ZF 1 Comment

Will Scott’s hard sci-fi drama be the next Gravity? Or the next Exodus?

Filed Under: Movies Tagged With: Andy Weir, Drew Goddard, Jessica Chastain, Matt Damon, Ridley Scott, The Martian

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