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Monday, June 01, 2009

Grumpy Old Men

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A light week for me, and no horror, unfortunately. But after gorging myself last week, I needed to get caught up with some real-world respon...
Sunday, May 31, 2009

Blogathon!

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I haven't done one of these before, but I'm a sucker for Japanese film and there are a couple of Seijun Suzuki movies out on DVD thi...
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Friday, May 29, 2009

The Inevitable List

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Just before I went on vacation, I got an email from Iain Stott at The One-Line Review inviting me to participate in one of those periodic ...
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Monday, May 25, 2009

Vacations from Hell

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My spring vacation turned out to be one of the most intense movie-watching periods I've had in a while. This was planned--the friend I w...
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Monday, May 11, 2009

Lost Opportunites

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Most of the people I've seen get all orgasmic over the new Star Trek movie (2009, no subtitle on this one) are mainly the same people t...
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Monday, May 04, 2009

The Coolest Thing on the Internet this Morning

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That's Paul McCartney and Jack Kirby. That's your mid-century cultural nexus right there. Seriously. I found this via The Beat and ...

Hugh Jackman's Magic Ass

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Well, here's the thing about X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009, directed by Gavin Hood): it pretty much sucks as a movie, but it has lots ...
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Friday, May 01, 2009

The Films of Robert Aldrich: His early career and Apache

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Robert Aldrich's career in Hollywood began in the early 1940s doing odd jobs for RKO as a production assistant, script clerk, and variou...
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Monday, April 27, 2009

Farewell, Marilyn Chambers

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The Ivory Snow girl passed away last week, so I felt obligated to give her a fine send off, with two of her better known movies. First up wa...
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Monday, April 20, 2009

Train in Vain

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I think I'm finally beginning to warm up to Hayao Miyazaki (Ghibli fans will excuse me for not falling deeply in love with his movies). ...
Monday, April 13, 2009

More Godzilla. Drinkin' Wine Spodee odee.

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A pretty light week for me. Horror and related: Godzilla vs. Megaguirus (2000, directed by Masaaki Tezuka), in which Godzilla is attacking ...
Wednesday, April 08, 2009

My New Annual Project: The Films of Robert Aldrich

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I've been scouting around for a movie-related project ever since I finished up my last movie-related project (last year's march thro...
Monday, April 06, 2009

Blood and Sand

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I finally got around to restarting my Netflix this week. They didn't have the disc at the top of my queue at my local distribution cente...
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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...