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It was Monday night, and Chris and I wanted a guys’ night out. I’d
already seen the Lemony Snicket movie and wasn’t really up to watching the House of Flying Daggers, so we settled on Elektra, instead…
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I’ve been really digging movies in the “really stupid but fun” category
lately. Maybe it’s the job pressure, or the ever-changing dynamics at home, but I need the occasional escape in which someone else looks like an idiot for a while…
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Okay, you cotton-headed ninnymuggins. I realize that you may never have
heard of this film, or may have heard of it and never bothered to check it out. Some of you may even actively avoid catching reference to this movie. Screw you guys! This movie is one of my top 5 of all time and I’m gonna freaking talk about it…
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There are some movies that make it on raw intensity of plot. Others rely on character development and interaction, setting, sex appeal, shock value, and all kinds of other crap. Still others just reek of style…
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Our beloved webmaster asked me a few weeks ago if I could send in some reviews for Christmas, Thanksgiving, Kwanzaa, Festivus, whatever. Disregarding what the last couple of months had been like and oblivious to the future, I said “Sure”…
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For those of you who don’t know me, I recently inherited three kids. They’re good kids and I like them, but the whole thing takes a little getting used to. One definite upside to the whole thing is that I now have a perfectly legitimate excuse to go to see kid movies on opening night…
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I started a new job about a month ago. It’s a high-pressure gig, and I found a new way to increase that new employee pressure. We had some kind of company outing planned for two Fridays ago. HR looked at the weather forecast and decided to move the location to Startime Cinema in Roswell…
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Halloween is approaching, and I’ve begun on my customary week-long
immersion in the world that is (usually bad) horror films. It’s fun, keeps me centered, and generally makes me into a horrible driver for several weeks to come…
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I saw the movie on a Saturday night, and here I am doing a review in the wee hours of Thursday morning. Rough week. I’m sipping ouzo and listening to Dr. Demento. Screw summation. I’m going to relay what I was thinking, in the order that I thunk it…
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Tonight, I gathered the regulars to go and see THE CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK. There were Glenn, Rich and Chris (of PRISONER OF AZKABAN fame). Magge begged off because she doesn’t like to go out on school nights. Her loss…