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An Appreciation – The Wizard of Oz
Unlike most people, I did not see The Wizard of Oz (1939) as a child. In fact, I didn’t see it in its entirety until I was nearing young adulthood. But even before then, I felt like there was already a familiarity. This benchmark of…
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Netflix Recommendations – Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something True (1)
I have conceded to the fact that Netflix and the other online streaming services are the future. Personally, I grew up going to video stores, and when I grew all the way up I worked at one for over four years. But with the recent…
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2014 Oscar Predictions – Ben’s Picks
It’s Oscar time again and it has been a roller coaster of a year with no clear front-runner for best picture and several of the categories ripe for potential upsets. While not as strong a line up of films as last year, there are still…
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Top 10 2013 – Adelaide’s List
I don’t watch a lot of new films because I am middle-aged and grumpy, and I want to watch things when I want to watch them, not when they are in the theaters. So every year my “best of” list is about what I watched…
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An Appreciation – Beauty and the Beast
One of the best sequences in Jean Cocteau’s La Belle et la Bête (Beauty and the Beast, 1946) comes when Belle (Josette Day) first enters the castle of the mysterious Beast (Jean Marais). Done completely in slow motion, we see her come into the main…
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Double Feature Showdown – Battle Royale vs. The Hunger Games
Last year when The Hunger Games came out, all I heard was Battle Royale this, Battle Royale that. Everybody kept talking about how similar the plots were between the two, but nobody really gave specifics, other than “kids forced to kill each other off until…
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Giveaway – The Legend of Hercules Autographed Poster
The folks at Summit Entertainment have given us a poster from The Legend of Hercules autographed by Kellan Lutz to give away. To be eligible please fill out the form below.
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NYCC 2013 – Max Brooks: Response to World War Z Adaptation, Possible Television Version of Extinction Parade
Many people know Max Brooks as the author of World War Z and The Zombie Survival Guide, but what some may not know is that he is the son of comedic actor/director Mel Brooks (Blazing Saddles, History of the World: Part 1). At New York…
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