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Let’s Go The Other Way
So after three movies of considerable quality, I felt the need to balance out my cinematic diet. And if nothing else, my collection has quite the surplus of films on the other end of that curve. First...
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Horrors, Netflix Style
Gadfreys, but I’ve been a lazy fellow lately. Just laid about, watching horror stuff. That’s not really an option this week, as I have to complete two stories, shoot a third, and do two acting gigs, so...
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Saturday Marathon II: The Trashening
It must be Fall, although the outside temperatures are still freakishly hot and humid. Honestly, the worst thing about my laziness (and lifelong pursuit of becoming so sedentary I am declared a rock...
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Hunting Halloween, Part 1
While things moved around and clicked and cackled over the last week or so, I would find myself with some time, but not a lot of time, or if it was a lot of time, it was at the waning end of a long...
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Hunting Halloween, Part 2
I keep looking at Google Calendar, and expecting the bad blocks to go away, but it isn’t happening. Monday is going to kick off the most hellaciously busy week-and-a half I have had in some time. So...
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Crapsgiving 2012
I actually recovered from a week and a half of Extreme Bizzitude the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Wednesday night was spent brining the turkey, Thursday, of course, was cooking and eating, then eating...
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Then Came the Dark of the Black Snakes
Let’s see how many of these I can spit out without going 1000 words for each. Dark of the Sun (1968) had been getting some good notices at revival screenings around this time last year; it was pointed...
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Birdemic: Shock and Terror (2010)
So I have this list of 60 movies that I was By God gonna watch this year, and I entered December not really sure I was going to pull it off. That’s generally a very busy period for me, and I was...
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Year-End Movie Catchup Edition
So. we’re coming up on New Years, and I have, surprisingly not been watching movies constantly. My wife’s had some health issues that have required my hovering helplessly over her while she tries to...
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The List for 2013
About a quarter of the way into last year I decided I was going to watch all of Stanley Kubrick’s movie in chronological order – a decision based largely on my purchase of a Blu-ray box set containing...
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The Man With The Iron Fists (2012)
It’s not going to surprise anyone when I say I love kung fu movies. That’s a label that covers a wide variety of movies, and while I can’t claim to love them all, I do find almost all of them...
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Belated Valentine Crap
I knew one week was going to be hellish, but I had no idea it would effortlessly balloon into two and a half weeks. My endurance was severely tried and probably exceeded, as I’m still feeling the...
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The ABCs of March, Part Three
You know the score by now. Letterboxd dot com, March Movie Madness, a movie a day, A for Day One, B for Day Two. To continue: Intercessor: Another Rock ‘N’ Roll Nightmare (2005) People kept waving me...
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The ABCs of March, Part Four
Blah blah blah Letterboxd.com blah March Movie Madness blah blah Movie starting with “A” on March 1, “B” on March 2, blah. Miami Connection (1987) A minor cultural artifact that would be languishing in...
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The ABCS of March, Part Five
There was a big push to get ahead on the letterboxd.com March Movie Madness event, because a) it was Spring Break, and b) weeks off always engender a Hell of Work To Catch Up On. This time is certainly...
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The ABCs of March, Part Six
Finally finishing out Letterboxd.com’s March Movie Madness challenge. It got to be a little wearing there, toward the end. The Villain (1979) Dear sweet mercy, is there anything worse than an unfunny...
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Crapfest: Making A Good Friday Bad
There seems to be an ebb and flow in the Universe around these things: I’d had another stressful and exhausting two weeks, the midpoint of which was the Fort Bend International Festival, a nice 11 hour...
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Hercules, Samson, and Ulysses (1963)
This movie and I go back a ways. When it first played theaters – and yeah, 1963 sounds right, yeah, fifty years ago - I begged my mother to take me to see it. Those three names were something to...
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Human Lanterns (1982)
Before I descend into the madness of another Movie Challenge Month, I should probably talk about one of the movies I did manage to watch during my burnout from the last one: Human Lanterns, a piece to...
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A Break for Crap
Trying to prove that we didn’t actually need to sully a holiday with this month’s Crapfest was perhaps ill-considered. The Sunday before Memorial Day weekend, but not the holiday weekend itself? Well,...
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