McCain in Time -vs- McCain in Newsweek
Ready for his Close-Up? Honestly, we try not to get too political over here at Movie Smackdown! After all, we have our work cut out for us with our film-on-film comparisons without taking sides in […]
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Our Completely Unscientific Polling Data That Will Still Amuse and Enlighten
After the Obama-Clinton slugfest this year, we all know that polls have their limitations. And we know that blog polls are even more unreliable than most. Still, we’re drawn to doing polls more often on […]
Superheroes, Spies, Sci-Fi and Other Tasty Summer Smacks!
Seems like summer is the time for super-hero sequels. That was true last summer, of course, but this summer has shown that when they work, they really work! Spring fizzled with the often-dismissed fourth "Indiana […]
Something New from the Smack!
We get mail. And some of you seem to really like the less-than-reverent way we treat the publicity stills that the studios put out to promote their films. Armed only with an iMac, some Comic […]
The Dark Knight (2008) -vs- Spider-Man 2 (2004)
The Smackdown This may turn out to be our All-Time Heavyweight Smackdown — the equivalent of Ali versus Frasier — where both of the fighters are at the top of their games and both deserve […]
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For Our New Readers from American Movie Classics
We sure do appreciate the fact that AMC has made us the "Site of the Week." With all the new eyeballs checking us out, we offer up this retrospective of last year’s Oscar nominees and […]
The 2008 Critics Choice Awards: Movie Smackdown! Edition
Even as the Golden Globes were falling apart over the on-going WGA strike, the show at tonight’s 13th Annual The Critics Choice Awards managed to go on because the event is put on by the […]
The Hits Keep Coming!
According to SiteMeter, Movie Smackdown has set a new record for site traffic for the eighth month in a row! This screen capture which follows shows that every month this year has set […]
We’re Official!
On a yearly basis, Merriam-Webster carefully selects and adds new words to the collegiate list. This year less than 100 words were chosen, and Smackdown was one of them! They even have a guy who […]