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Exclusive: Movie CliffsNotes – The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1

Posted 11 years ago

The final chapter in the game-changing THE HUNGER GAMES franchise drops this week and it's sure to draw in a massive audience in completing the YA adaptation. For those looking to do a little homework or catch-up prior to heading...

Exclusive: Movie CliffsNotes – Paranormal Activity

Posted 11 years ago

While as a whole, the PARANORMAL ACTIVITY franchise has received mixed reviews from critics, the films have been incredibly profitable, earning more than $800 million worldwide with a combined budget of just $18 million. The sixth and final (sure it...

Exclusive: Movie CliffsNotes – Prometheus

Posted 11 years ago

One of the most hot-and-cold sci-fi films in recent memory, Ridley Scott's PROMETHEUS has been a source of debate, ridicule, adoration, and everything in between since it first hit theaters in 2012. Now, Scott is returning to the sci-fi genre...

Exclusive: Movie CliffsNotes – The Transporter

Posted 11 years ago

Before you plan on refueling for THE TRANSPORTER REFUELED this weekend (see our review here) you can get caught up on the one that started it all with this month's Movie CliffsNotes, featuring the o.g. THE TRANSPORTER starring none other...

Exclusive: Movie CliffsNotes – Mission: Impossible

Posted 11 years ago

Truth be told, the first MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE confused the hell out of a lot of people when it first came out, but that didn't stop them from loving the shit out of it anyway. The plot goes from some crazy...

Exclusive: Movie CliffsNotes – Rocky IV

Posted 11 years ago

This week see's the release of the boxing drama SOUTHPAW, so in the spirit of stepping into the ring again, we jump into the CliffsNotes version of Rocky IV. The Sylvester Stallone classic is both an exercise in excess and...

Exclusive: Movie CliffsNotes – Insidious

Posted 11 years ago

This week see's the release of the third installment of the INSIDIOUS films, INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 3, so naturally we felt it would be a good time to revisit the first one with this month's Movie CliffsNotes. Host Matt Kerkhoff takes...

Movie CliffsNotes: The Marvel movie that started it all – Iron Man!

Posted 11 years ago

While we all gear up to see the next chapter in Marvel's Phase 2, now seemed like a good time to look back on the film that kicked it all off: 2008's IRON MAN. Starring a then not-so-bankable Robert Downey...

Exclusive Cool Video: Movie CliffsNotes – The Fast & The Furious

Posted 11 years ago

I remember seeing director Rob Cohen's THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS in theaters and walking away thinking it was pretty good, if not exceptionally cheesy and not particularly smart. It was POINT BREAK with car thieves. It wasn't until the...