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A Staggeringly Stale Netflix Original Cliches the Top 10 in 74 Nations

Cr. Sasidis Sasisakulporn/Netflix © 2022 Sometimes, audiences have no interest in watching anything groundbreaking, demanding, or thought-provoking, with the cinematic equivalent of comfort food and a warm hug taking precedence. Fortunately for those with a taste for the formulaic, Netflix released A Tourist’s Guide to Love at exactly the right time. Rachel Leigh Cook stars as a high-flying travel executive dealing with a breakup that came right out of the blue, which leads her to accept an undercover…

A Staggeringly Successful but Widely-Hated Franchise Makes an Comeback on Netflix

via Summit Entertainment Of all the fantastical YA literary adaptations to swamp the marketplace in the aftermath of Harry Potter‘s global success, none proved to be anywhere near as successful or generate quite the same levels of fervor as The Twilight Saga. Those who bore witness to the cultural phenomenon will recall all too well that the entire population of planet Earth was split into three distinct camps: Team Jacob, Team Edward, and Team Could Not Give a Single F*ck. There was no middle ground, you were…

A Staggeringly Senseless Sequel Leaves Its Brain at the Door on Streaming

via Paramount When it comes to movies that are so unrelentingly stupid they actually turn out to be kinda fun, there are few better examples to come along in the last few years than xXx: Return of Xander Cage. 15 years after first throwing on the fake tattoos and oversized fur coat of the title hero in the spy blockbuster created exclusively for the nu-metal generation, Vin Diesel returned to try and rehabilitate a franchise that was effectively nuked by Ice Cube taking over for sequel State of the Union,…