Posted by moviegeek916 on December 26, 2012 · 1 Comment
Sukiyaki Western Django (2007) – Sergio Corbucci’s Django is one of the classics of the spaghetti western genre. It’s been hailed for its style and brutality and its enigmatic main character. More than thirty unofficial sequels and spin-offs and homages have been made to it. I have seen next to none of them, but I … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on July 16, 2012 · Leave a Comment
This article was originally published on 12ftdwende.com 2 April 2010. So I had a vague awareness of the Nightmare on Elm Street series as a small child. I would walk with great trepidation through the horror isle of the video store knowing that here were things not for young’ns like myself. I knew that there … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on July 4, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Spider-Man 3 (2007) – Sigh… I said I was going to revisit the Sam Raimi Spider-Man films… and unfortunately that means watching this one again. I can’t believe I even own it (it came with my Playstation 3). Completist that I am however I just had to hold onto it and watch it during my … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on May 29, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Timecrimes (2007) – There are a couple different theories of time travel, at least as it applies to works of fiction. There’s the whole tangent universe theory as explained by Doc Brown in Back to the Future: when you change something it creates a new timeline. The more plausible, and often more interesting one is … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on March 10, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Encounters at the End of the World (2007) – I must make full confession, I was dead tired but I didn’t want to go to sleep (as it was the middle of the afternoon) so I decided to watch a movie instead. As such, I didn’t stay 100% conscious the whole time so I feel … Continue reading →
Posted by moviegeek916 on October 31, 2011 · Leave a Comment
So Halloween is upon us and this year it occurred to me that I had only seen half of the Halloween films. I decided to rectify that this year. Halloween (1978) You know I kind of go back and forth on Halloween. I last saw it in 2009 and thought that while good it was … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on October 30, 2011 · Leave a Comment
For seven years the Saw franchise released a movie annually around Halloween. With three Paranormal Activity films in three years, I had kind of written off the franchise as a similarly exploitative franchise. You know how they say not to judge a book by its cover (despite that being where the plot synopsis is)? Well … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on October 3, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Spiral (2007) – So my favorite new horror director of the past several years has to be Adam Green. He created the fantastic slasher movie throwback Hatchet (and its sequel, Hatchet II) and the great survival horror flick Frozen. They’re both horror movies but in a very different vein. Spiral is nothing like either one … Continue reading →
Posted by moviegeek916 on September 24, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Snow Angels (2007) — This is one of those instances where I like a lot of things about a movie but the movie itself comes up short for me. Most of that I think is that I like David Gordon Green’s style so much but in this case the substance wasn’t as intriguing to me. … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on September 23, 2011 · Leave a Comment
The Simpsons Movie (2007) — So the thing that a lot of people have said about this movie is that it’s like an unusually long episode of the show. That’s definitely partially true, but in a good way I think. Everything from the show is present from Homer’s staggering new levels of stupidity (though real … Continue reading →
Persistence of Vision 