Posted by moviegeek916 on July 16, 2012 · Leave a Comment
This article (a rare non-review) was originally published on 12ftdwende.com on 23 April 2010. I saw a movie this past week (actually three but only one is relevant to this particular op-ed). It was a madcap comedy about the many things that go wrong at a funeral. It is called Death at a Funeral and … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on February 4, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Chronicle (2012) – The found footage film is getting kind of played out. I mean it started as more-or-less a novelty and now everyone’s doing it. Not to be confused with a mockumentary, which presents the film as a documentary (though sometimes as one gone horribly awry as in The Last Exorcism or Behind the … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on February 4, 2012 · Leave a Comment
The Woman in Black (2012) – I’m a horror geek. One of the great things about horror geekdom is that there are so many different corners of it that you can discover. Subgenres within subgenres. One of the corner of that is Brit horror (horror flicks from the U.K. for those who need self-explanatory things … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on September 22, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Let Me In (2010) — With an almost impossibly high standard to live up to, Cloverfield director Matt Reeves actually managed to make a very good movie. Make no mistake: if you’ve seen Let the Right One In, you know point by point what’s going to happen in this movie. Details are altered but it’s … Continue reading →
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Persistence of Vision 