There’s a pretty famous scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho that involves a shower, a knife, and some screeching violins. It’s said that the scene was so frightening to audiences at the time, that people actually became afraid to take showers. Whether that’s true or not, it’s understandable that an audience from 1960, who hadn’t […]
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The G.I. Joes are in Pakistan. Their mission is to acquire nuclear warheads. After some blams, a few booms, and a smattering of rat-a-tats, it’s mission accomplished. But not so fast. While the Joes are camped out in the desert awaiting their ride home, kaboom! Sneak attack! All but three Joes are killed. Which […]
Posted in Featured, Movie Reviews Tags: Adrianne Palicki, Cobra, Dwayne Johnson, Film Critic, G.I. Joe, Jonathan Pryce, Laremy Legel, Retaliation, Transformers 1 Comment »
I have a love/hate relationship with movie trailers. I love having my appetite for movies whetted by getting a peak at the upcoming ones. I hate how much of the story they seem to give away. I’ve seen the trailer for Michael Bay’s upcoming Pain and Gain about 5 or 6 times now, and as my girlfriend […]
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Viewed on March 2, 2013 on TNT I forgot just how brilliant this movie is. This was my fourth viewing of Inception, and I swear it just keeps getting better. Christopher Nolan is so damned good at crafting a damned interesting story. Damn. I’m just amazed at how he was able to come up with […]
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If the first Wizard of Oz film was all just Dorothy’s dream, how do you then have a prequel that explains the wizard’s arrival to Oz? Was it not a dream? Is the prequel just another one of Dorothy’s dreams, maybe on the very next night, her subconscious feeling a need to color in the […]
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What’s it about? “A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the life cycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives.” —IMDB Who made it? Written and directed by Shane Carruth. Who’s in it? Shane Carruth, Amy Seimetz, and Andrew Sensenig. When’s it coming […]
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Viewed on March 2, 2013 via Netflix Streaming I’m slowly making my way through the movies of 2012 that I was unable to see at theaters. I saw Compliance in February, and now I’ve seen V/H/S. (See the other movies I missed in 2012 here.) What originally appealed to me about V/H/S was that it […]
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