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Film Review – Wrong
Pet ownership is a strange concept. When thought about, the idea goes beyond simply caring for an animal. Over the course of history, pet ownership has gone through many, various changes, from worshiping an animal as a deity, to using them to battle each other…
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Film Review – Sader Ridge
Horror films are often a genre that’s considered a good starting place for new filmmakers with little to no budget. Films like Night of the Living Dead, Halloween, and The Evil Dead were all made on shoestring budgets and helped launch the careers of filmmakers…
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Film Review – G.I. Joe: Retaliation
A theory is forming. Adding Dwayne Johnson, a.k.a. “The Rock,” to your film franchise will deliver it safely into the arms of adoring fans. The theory is limited to only two franchises at this point: The Fast & Furious films, and now G.I. Joe. To…
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Interview – Joel Hodgson – Riffing Myself
Comedian Joel Hodgson may be best known for creating and hosting Mystery Science Theater 3000, a show about a man and his robot companions trapped on a space ship and forced to watch bad movies where they riff on the obvious faults and idiosyncrasies of…
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Film Review – Broken City
Somewhere in its heart, Broken City really wants to be a good movie—and not just any good movie, but a Sidney Lumet good movie. If this movie had just one thing to say, it would be that corruption is everywhere, from the mayor on down.…
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Film Review – Killing Them Softly
Since 2000, writer/director Andrew Dominik has made only three films: Chopper (2000), The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), and now Killing Them Softly. Twelve years with only three films, but they are three painstakingly detailed and surprisingly heady, thought-provoking films.…
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Film Review – Red Dawn
The Russians are coming! The Russi… The Chin… The North Koreans are coming!
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Film Review – Wake in Fright
We open on a shot of an empty horizon. Desert for as far as the eye can see. Slowly, the camera pans three hundred and sixty degrees. We see nothing but a continuous sea of outback. Brown and orange color the absolute flat space of…
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