So I’m implementing Trailer Thursdays, where I’ll show you guys all the awesome trailers that have gone out over the weeks and try and dish up any news on them. Given that I’m a slave to alliteration, this title is purely decorative and they might not actually go up every […]
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A SPOILER-IFIC Side by Side Comparission of Red Dawn and the 2012 Remake
All right, so, now that the remake of Red Dawn has been released, I feel like it’s time to offer up what everyone’s been wanting. Pretty much all the traffic to our blog over the past week has been people wanting to know some spoilers about the remake and how […]
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Hitchcock is delightful and quirky with darker elements lurking in the corner.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rQuRLERl6A?feature=player_detailpage&w=640&h=360] IMDB Link First and foremost, if you’re looking for a film that explains how Hitchcock directed Psycho or focuses on Psycho, then this is not it. You get insight into how the film was made and the delicious tension of just how important the movie was to Hitchcock’s […]
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After Twilight Viewers Can Find A Little Southern Comfort in Beautiful Creatures
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYTptJesPuU] Now that the Twilight series has officially run it’s course a number of new young adult adaptations are rushing to take it’s place. The Hunger Games was the first contender hoping to take over the market established by Harry Potter and the Stephenie Meyere series. While that series has […]
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Twilight affirms that violence makes vampires fun
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0JPE202szI] I think most people are glad that Twilight is over, myself included. Personally, it wasn’t even because of the actual series. I have read the first three of the Twilight books, and I did enjoy them when I read them when I was in middle school and I enjoyed […]
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In the Red Dawn (2012) Remake Teenage Rebels Valiantly Fight For… Spokane?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGoe7BdGdlg] Wolverines! I don’t know how many fans of the original Red Dawn (1984) there are reading this so if you haven’t seen it before believe me when I tell you that there are few more epic movies from the 1980s than this anti-communist action movie. Then go to Netflix […]
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Skyfall is not an “action packed” movie, but it is an awesome espionage film.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kw1UVovByw] It doesn’t lack explosions, but Skyfall is not a classic action movie. You can’t sit there, slurping your drink, waiting for people to fight and shoot at each other. Growing with the modern age, James Bond is a heavily developed character relying heavier on his own personality and skills rather than […]
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Unlike Twilight, Warm Bodies Really IS Necrophelia
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGRHrr6IYdg] A few months ago I reviewed Isaac Marion’s novel Warm Bodies. It chronicles the story of a semi-sentient zombie named R as he falls in love with a living girl and the two attempt to disrupt the post-apocalyptic order the world. The movie seems to be along the same […]
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As Awesome As It Looks I Still Have Issues With the World War Z Trailer…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md6Dvxdr0AQ] I love World War Z. Absolutely love it. It is inventive and offers a unique look at what a post-zombie apocalypse world could be like and how the end of the world could come to pass. Never before have I been sucked in to something quite like I was […]
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Dreamworks’ Rise of the Guardians
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2koEFlVqfc] So, today I got to go to an advanced screening of Dreamworks’ new movie Rise of the Guardians. Let me just say, that I am a sucker for the holiday season. I absolutely love it when things get sparkly with lights and people go home to their families. Even […]
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