Posted by moviegeek916 on September 24, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Bridesmaids (2011) — So from the trailer I thought this looked like a very stupid movie, but then I kept hearing from a lot of varied people that it is actually quite funny. Turns out it’s somewhere in between. Bridesmaids does actually have a lot of funny moments and makes a good case for why … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on September 24, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Howl (2010) — So first I need to start off by saying this movie was not what I expected. I was more-or-less expecting a straightforward legal drama about one of the last works of poetry/literature to be tried for obscenity. To be certain the film is about that, but is anything but a straightforward legal … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on September 22, 2011 · Leave a Comment
The Town (2010) — While not on the same level as his debut Gone Baby Gone, The Town proves that Ben Affleck really seems to know what he’s doing as a director. He got massively overexposed in the late 90s/early 2000s and did just about anything for a paycheck (including a movie called Paycheck) but … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on September 19, 2011 · Leave a Comment
So I figured if I’m going to blogging about television, I should probably weigh in on the Emmys. I realized this though as the Emmys were already in progress and I had been drinking (I started to sober up somewhere around the Drama categories). These are my meandering real-time thoughts as I watched the broadcast. … Continue reading →
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Persistence of Vision 