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X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) – People who know me know this about me: I love comic books. That being said I am far from an expert in Marvel. My preferences tend to run more towards DC (my reasoning, which my fellow geeks could debate for ages, is that Marvel focuses on human drama … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on June 19, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Prometheus (2012) – Ridley Scott has not made a science fiction movie in 30 years, since his unparalleled masterpiece Blade Runner. Almost as good (and definitely more popular) is Scott’s second-best film Alien. Alien kicked off a franchise given us the great sequel Aliens, the sequel which I like (though few others seem to) Alien … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on March 29, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Take Shelter (2011) – In the movie Groundhog Day, in which Bill Murray lives a day over and over again, there is a young couple that seems to be having an argument. After Murray takes it upon himself to help everyone in the town, the now-happy couple is later seen having just married. The groom … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on March 24, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Fish Tank (2009) – You know some of us work at becoming actors. I mean learning the craft (and learning how irritating it is to non-actors hearing you talk about the “craft”) and technique and all that. It’s easier than digging ditches or running a textile mill for sure, but it’s not as easy as … Continue reading →
Posted by moviegeek916 on March 12, 2012 · Leave a Comment
X-Men: First Class (2011) – This article was originally published on 12ftdwende.com on 3 June 2011 As I believe I’ve mentioned several times before, I am a geek. I may not be as hardcore as some (you should meet my friend Joe), but I like superheroes and science fiction and all that awesome stuff. Of … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on February 25, 2012 · 3 Comments
Well, the Oscars are coming up in a couple days. I’ll get my picks and predictions and whatnot posted Sunday morning and then try to do some sort of real-time reaction thing like I tried doing with the Emmys a while back… In the meantime I figured I’d chime in with what I actually thought … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on February 5, 2012 · Leave a Comment
A Dangerous Method (2011) — So there seems to be a kind of theme running through the films of David Cronenberg. They all seem to be about characters fighting something inside themselves. Now in his earlier work like The Brood and his remake of The Fly this was taken disgustingly literal. Then there seemed to … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on January 28, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Shame (2011) – A lot of people don’t take sex addiction seriously. We turn into teenagers and start giggling about the “sex” part without really contemplating the addiction. Not to mention the general problem of differentiating between people who are addicted to something and people who just like it a lot. Example: I like to … Continue reading →
Posted by moviegeek916 on January 28, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Haywire (2011) – Well, the last time director Steven Soderbergh decided to cast a non-actor in the lead of one of his movies it was porn star Sasha Grey in the call girl drama The Girlfriend Experience. I fucking hated that movie so much. The… um, enthusiasm… that Grey brings to her normal line of … Continue reading →
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Persistence of Vision 