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Saturday Morning Cinema – Saving Private Ryan
Twenty-five years after its release, Saving Private Ryan still has the power to transport viewers back to 1944 and immerse them in hell with thrilling practical effects, amazing performances, and revolutionary cinematography.
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Saturday Morning Cinema – The Shawshank Redemption
As number 72 on the AFI Top 100, Shawshank Redemption feels as though it could be higher on the list. While it is more of a modern classic (if the 90’s can still be considered ‘modern’), that should not discredit it from being higher than 72.
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Saturday Morning Cinema: Hard Target (or How I Miss 90’s Action Movies)
Hard Target is quintessential 90’s action cinema. It has recognizable stars, including a household action name in Van Damme, a simple yet against-the-odds plot, and hyperbolic hand-to-hand and firearm combat. There’s also Wilford “Quaker Oats” Brimley, which if you knew nothing else about the film, would make Hard Target an intriguing watch.
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A Completely Personally Biased Holiday Movie Top 5
Movies set during the holiday season monopolize my entertainment from Thanksgiving evening through December 25th. I appreciate new entries into the holiday movie genre, but I have my trusty go-to films that get watched and rewatched an obscene amount during the season. These are my top five holiday movies ranked by a preference rooted in…
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Scary Morning Cinema: Alien and Event Horizon
In my recent viewing of two space horror movies, Alien being one, I was more aware of Alien’s influence on the sci-fi genre. I’ve always been aware of cinematic elements that look like Alien, but now, they really jumped off the screen.
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Slasher Morning Cinema: Friday the 13th Parts 1 and 2
For whatever reason, I’m drawn to the Friday the 13th movies. As the series progresses, the ridiculousness becomes nearly too much to watch, but the first couple entries are gold, tarnished gold.
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Movies That Surprised – Kingsman: The Secret Service
There are times when you suspect a movie could be fun, but you start watching without expectation. Yet, at the end, you walk away having thoroughly enjoyed yourself for the previous two hours after going through an experience whose imagery resonates after the screen goes dark.
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Spooky Watch: Night of the Demons
How’s your night going? Mine, because I watched this movie, was weird.
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Spooky Watch: 28 Days Later
Why in the world would I watch a movie about a highly contagious and deadly virus in a year when a highly contagious and deadly virus is rampaging throughout the world? Because it is October and now is the time to bask in the surreal, the scary, and that which causes a degree of unease.…
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Saturday Morning Cinema: Forrest Gump
I will embrace the cliché and open with the line, “Mama always said, ‘Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get.’” It is one of the truest, most applicable movie lines I have heard during my lifetime. This makes sense, then, that such a line comes from a…
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