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Film Review – Thankskilling
This movie starts out in the “olden times” (literally, the screen says this) with a topless pilgrim running through the woods with a carnivorous turkey chasing her. Turkey comments on her “attributes” and then kills her. The turkey was cursed/possessed when a Native American was…
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Before you mock (especially since I just reviewed Machete), I will defend myself by saying my girlfriend and I took her little sister to see Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole. And frankly, I rather enjoyed it, so suck it. Now picture this…
READ MOREFilm Review – Machete
After the infuriating disappointment of The Expendables, I tried to scale back my anticipation of Machete. I saw the previews for both about the same time and thought these were going to be the two best films of 2010. The Expendables let me down in…
READ MOREFilm Review – The Expendables
When I first saw the trailer for The Expendables, I thought to myself, this film is going to be amazing and it also should have an American flag in every corner of the screen. There are tons of action heroes from the 1990s and 2000’s…
READ MOREFilm Review – The Return
This Russian movie was recommended to me by a friend who likes his plots simple and direct and moving. This movie has all of these things and, despite not being all that uplifting, has even MORE than just these things. It’s about two brothers who…
READ MOREFilm Review – Dora-Heita
Dora-Heita is a traditional Japanese film about a new magistrate (basically a mayor) in a small town. The magistrate has begun to spread rumors about himself in order to make people think he’s lecherous and mean and nasty. He’s only done this to make his…
READ MOREFilm Review – Red Riding Hood
Red Riding Hood – I generally have good luck with recommendations from Amazon.com regarding movies I should purchased because I also purchased some other random movie. The key word is generally. I don’t even remember why they recommended it, sadly. The film is about a…
READ MOREFilm Review – Predators (second review)
I’ll give a quick review of Predators, since Jeremy already laid it down really well for you all. Predators is the newest edition of the long-running Predator saga. I know people keep complaining about these when they come out, but enough people are going to…
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