Posted by moviegeek916 on March 22, 2012 · Leave a Comment
The Rum Diary (2011) – “You’re high, you fool! Drink some rum!” I have read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and I’ve read many essays and articles by the late great Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, but I’ve never actually read The Rum Diary. I know it’s an outright novel, meaning it was more invented … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on March 19, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Drive Angry (2011) – The following review first appeared as part of a larger article (“Now in Theaters”) on 12ftdwende.com on 11 March 2011. While crappy movies always make you forget, it is still true that making films is an art. This new wave of a 3D has been written off as a trendy gimmick … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on October 3, 2011 · Leave a Comment
The Ward (2010) – This movie has a “twist” ending and you can guess it pretty much from the beginning. I rolled my eyes and said “aw, man, in the end it’s going to turn out [REDACTED].” Surely enough it did turn out [REDACTED] but I didn’t mind so much as my eye-rolling predictions would … Continue reading →
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Persistence of Vision 