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Looper (2012) -vs- Source Code (2011)
The Smackdown Let’s face facts: If “traveling back in time to change the past” movies stuck rigidly to actual logic, there would be no such movies. As far as I can tell, there’s just no getting around...
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Dark Skies (2013) vs. Dark Skies (1996)
The Smackdown Who here has seen that identity thief movie? And by that we don’t mean the one in which Melissa McCarthy schools Jason Bateman on new levels of quasi-comedic rudeness, but the one that...
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After Earth (2013) vs. Oblivion (2013)
The Smackdown The latest trend in sci-fi seems to be returning to a post-apocalyptic Earth, trashed after a run-in with extraterrestrials, and still coming out on top. Both Tom Cruise with Oblivion and...
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John Kennedy vs. The Conspirators
What really would have happened next if John Kennedy survived the ambush at Dealey Plaza? That’s the intriguing premise of this ambitiously researched novel by award-winning TV writer/producer Bryce...
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Arrival (2016) vs. Contact (1997)
The Smackdown Arrival is a big, fat Smackdown target, given the boxes it checks from other classics. Aliens arrive in massive ships all over the world like they do in Independence Day. It has a brainy...
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