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[16 Mar 2005 | 2 Comments | ]
Pretty in Pink (1986)

So I’m watching Pretty in Pink last night. The John Hughes-penned Pretty in Pink. Until recently, I assumed Pretty in Pink was actually directed by Mr. Hughes, but it turned out I was wrong. Howard Deutsch was behind the camera for this one…

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[1 Mar 2005 | No Comment | ]

Friday night was date night, and Stace and I went out to see Constantine. I’d read the comic book Hellblazer for several years and really like the whole bit: the characters, the setting, the art and the attitude…

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[22 Feb 2005 | No Comment | ]

There was once a time, not too long ago, when I considered Jackie Brown to be the weakest of Quentin Tarantino’s films. After watching it the first time, I came away feeling very underwhelmed. “That wasn’t anything like Pulp Fiction”…

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[27 Jan 2005 | No Comment | ]

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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[21 Jan 2005 | No Comment | ]

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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[7 Jan 2005 | No Comment | ]

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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[3 Jan 2005 | No Comment | ]

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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[27 Dec 2004 | One Comment | ]

Before I can get into my honest criticism of the film Spice World, I feel that it is my duty to explain to you my brief history with the film’s stars: those five bubbly brit girls known collectively as the Spice Girls…

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[22 Dec 2004 | One Comment | ]

The MCFTR 2004 Mini-tribute to the Christmas Horror flick wound up being a little thinner than I expected, but at least we managed to dig up a few gems in the process…

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[17 Dec 2004 | 4 Comments | ]

Ahh, the killer Santa. Somehow, in the annals of Hollywood, this has become quite the sub-sub-subgenre of Horror films. Probably made most famous by the 1984 classic Silent Night, Deadly Night, this niche has given viewers plenty of alternative Yuletide movie nights…