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Monday, March 30, 2009

Rubber Reptile Rampage

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I think the first horror movie I ever saw--or monster movie, anyway--was a Godzilla movie. I think it was Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster , bu...
Monday, March 23, 2009

Asian Salad, Sharks, and Buttons

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A friend of mine bought a new television last week. This thing is huge. Imagine the monolith from 2001 turned on its side and you have an id...
Monday, March 16, 2009

Beware, the Ides of March

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A light week for me. In fact, I didn't see a single movie. This is a rare occurrence for me. I spent a lot of time reading Dan Simmons...
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Watching the Watchmen

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Carrie (1976, directed by Brian De Palma). I wish my prom had been as much fun as Carrie White's prom. Oh, more than that, I guess. I l...
Monday, March 02, 2009

Undistributed

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I had hoped to get out to see Coraline this weekend, but that didn't happen. Instead, I was satisfied with a couple of undistributed mo...
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Monday, February 23, 2009

Heart of Midnight

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Reprinted from my website : The Midnight Meat Train , 2008. Directed by Ryûhei Kitamura. Bradley Kooper, Vinnie Jones, Leslie Bibb, Roger Ba...
Thursday, February 19, 2009

Vampires, Pink Horses, and Counterfeiters

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Let the Right One In (2009, directed by Tomas Alfredson) was a bit of a surprise to me. I had seen the praise here and elsewhere, but I rea...
Monday, February 09, 2009

Kink

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There was even one drunken American who, laughing, grabbed her, but when he realized that he had seized a fistful of flesh and the chain whi...
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Monday, February 02, 2009

Rings and Monsters

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I was home sick this week, so I took the opportunity to revisit an old friend: Pixar's Monsters, Inc. (2001, directed by Peter Docter a...
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Monday, January 26, 2009

Three Dimensional

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For the Vincent Price Challenge: The Oblong Box (1969, directed by Gordon Hessler) teams Vincent Price with Christopher Lee in a film that ...
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Monday, January 19, 2009

Poe, Gangsters, Bogart

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For the Vincent Price Challenge: The Haunted Palace (1963, directed by Roger Corman). Long review here . The Pit and the Pendulum (1961, d...
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Monday, January 12, 2009

Into 2009.

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This blog was never actually intended as a "blog" per se. I originally started it as a means of archiving the writing I've don...
Saturday, January 03, 2009

All Done for 2008. Happy New Year.

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Wow. My last batch of films for 2008 certainly had a queer slant to them. 342. Gilda (1946, directed by Charles Vidor). The first hydrogen ...
Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Closing in On Year's End

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Catching up. Only two weeks to go on my little experiment. John Adams (2008): 324. Join or Die 325. Independence 326. Don't Tread On Me...
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Monday, December 01, 2008

The Two Faces of The Scarecrow

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316. I don't believe I ever saw the full version of Walt Disney's The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh (1964, directed by James Neilson ) ...
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Wednesday, November 26, 2008

A Prayer for the Departed...

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313. Dario Argento's The Bird with the Crystal Plumage pretty much sets the tempo for the giallo thrillers of the 1970s. I won't go...