Film Review: The Thing

If any of you read my “For Your Renting Pleasure” post from last week then you would have seen that I just watched the original The Thing (1982), and though I didn’t get the appeal of that film, I was not going to let it stomp out my excitement for this prequel.

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For Your Renting Pleasure

This week I have spent plenty of time at the theater and gaming (Rage FYI), but I managed to fit some movie rentals in this weekend so that I would have thoughts to share with you guys (yes I do realize how narcissistic that sounds).  This week we’ve got two films with Natalie Portman, The […]

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Film Review: Real Steel

Real Steel still has some large flaws in many ways, but it isn’t hard to say that it has dethroned a certain transforming summer blockbuster from its spot as the top robot movie of the year (which it was only perched on because of a lack of competition).

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Film Review: The Ides of March

It’s very hard for me to get into anything involving politics: the news, debates, conversations, etc.  Yes, I am one of those people.  Just try to get me involved; I will give myself 5 minutes tops before the blank stare completely takes over my face as the droning noise of speech is washed away by […]

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For Your Renting Pleasure

This week I apparently decided to go with slightly older creature features (also reading Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot, which both stays in the same vain and explains why I have only gotten two movies in).  Both films wear their age in similar ways; however, From Dusk Till Dawn rises above this in other ways by […]

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