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 May 21, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Dark Shadows (2012) – I’ve always found daytime soaps to be rather ridiculous. I don’t know why that’s where I draw the line, while I do enjoy the “guilty pleasure” of weekly prime time soaps on networks like the CW, but I do. (Maybe production value.) However from 1966 to 1971, while other daytime soaps … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on April 13, 2012 · Leave a Comment
This article was originally published on 12ftdwende.com on 30 April 2010. So a few weeks ago I mentioned that my favorite of the cinematic boogeymen is Freddy Krueger. What can I say, he got me young. From the boxes in the video store to the bits and pieces I’d catch on late night television, that … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on March 19, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Shutter Island (2010) – A book-to-screen adaptation will always suffer under the weight of expectation. I’ve voraciously devoured about eight of Dennis Lehane’s books now, Shutter Island included. I like the way that the man spins a mystery and I usually end up crushed by his usual downer endings. I love that not only has … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on September 24, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Little Children (2006) — There is a definite subgenre of drama dedicated to people who are desperately unhappy in suburbia. Understandable enough. Little Children was on the Sundance Channel and since I caught it from the beginning I opted to watch the whole thing. Kate Winslet plays Sarah, an unhappy housewife. Patrick Wilson (Watchmen, Angels … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on September 22, 2011 · Leave a Comment
A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) — In theaters I was just stoked that someone actually made Freddy Krueger scary again. He’s been such a joke-driven comic character for so long people forget that in the original film he was creepy as all hell. Jackie Earle Haley definitely brought that back to the character. No … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on September 4, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Watchmen (2009) — So like everyone who read the comic book first (I hate people who say “graphic novels,” it takes an awesome art form and gives it that ring of pretension that makes me want to punch people in the throat) I have my own list of things I wish had been left in … Continue reading →
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Persistence of Vision 