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One Year of Movies: The 100th Film

April 20, 2012 Movies

On April 17th, 2012 I saw my 100th film of the year. It was a flick from the early 90′s called Blink which starred Madeleine Stowe and Aidan Quinn. To be honest, this was not what I had in mind for my 100th film. For a milestone of this caliber I was searching for a [...]

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One Year of Movies: February’s Results

March 10, 2012 Movies

Even though February was the shortest month I found myself watching more movies than in January (if only by one). Perhaps it was the sleepless nights? Nothing like insomnia to give you more hours in the day. I was also feeling a bit nostalgic this month, so I dusted off some my favorite films like [...]

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One Year of Movies: January’s Results

February 13, 2012 Movies

When 2012 started I decided on a little experiment where I would keep track of every film I’d see that year. This post is a summation of my first month of the experiment. The format may change here and there as I figure out the best way to present this info, but suggestions are HIGHLY [...]

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New Year Movie Experiment

December 28, 2011 Movies

I’m a movie nut in all conceivable ways. If allowed, I would spend thousands of dollars to build up my DVD collection, in a single purchase… every couple of months. One of the few topics I still speak passionately about is film and my knowledge of it is more encyclopedic than my knowledge of Information [...]

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Feast: How to Screw with Conventions

November 7, 2011 Horror

A group of strangers banding together to fight a relentless evil is nothing new in the horror genre. There have been many great movies made in that vein (i.e. From Dusk Till Dawn, Demon Knight, etc.) so I thought it was pretty difficult to inject fresh blood into a worn out story. That’s where a [...]

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Why I Contribute to Crowdfunding

February 16, 2011 Movies

Crowdfunding is an internet spin on an old idea. For as long as I can remember people have been raising money for one reason or another; Girl Scout’s with their cookies, Salvation Army with their buckets and of course politicians with their promises. With the Internet we’ve taken the bake sale fundraiser and gone global. [...]

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Swimming Through My Head

March 5, 2010 Movies

Earlier this week I had a very six degrees of separation kind of night, flowing from one train of thought to another like a slow moving ADD victim. It all started with me searching through Hulu for a video clip (damned if I remember which one) when I stumbled across an episode of the Late [...]

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Why Can’t Audiences Handle Emotional Scenes?

February 17, 2010 Movies

[I WILL BE DISCUSSING CRUCIAL AND ENDING SCENES FOR THESE FILMS. IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN THEM, PLEASE DO YOURSELF THE FAVOR OF ENJOYING THEM UNSPOILED BEFORE READING THIS POST] While watching a couple of favorite films over the weekend I was reminded as to why I keep popping them into the DVD player and enjoying [...]

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Re-Cut Trailers

January 29, 2010 Movies

It has always fascinated me how editing and pacing can affect stories. The first time I came across this was on the Fight Club: Collector’s Edition DVD, which showed alternate editing for several pivotal scenes in the film. It opened my eyes to how subtle changes in a camera angle or focal point during a [...]

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Beyond the Sea (2004)

October 18, 2009 Movies

The theme continues as I dive into crooner films. Listening to "The Sound of the Strip" I frequently heard songs sung by Bobby Darin. I had a passing familiarity with the name, but really didn’t know anything about the man. His songs were always filled with personality from ad-libs during the song to his little [...]

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Exploring Alternatives

September 3, 2009 Movies

Writing is my favorite method of creation, weaving entire realities that exist solely in your mind until pen is put to paper and the words are allowed to escape. The physical sensation of being in the midst of a furious writing session is felt from head to toe, supercharging your fingers as they hammer away [...]

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