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  • A Completely Personally Biased Holiday Movie Top 5

    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…

  • Scary Morning Cinema: Alien and Event Horizon

    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.

  • Slasher Morning Cinema: Friday the 13th Parts 1 and 2

    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.

  • Movies That Surprised – Kingsman: The Secret Service

    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.

  • Spooky Watch: Night of the Demons

    Spooky Watch: Night of the Demons

    How’s your night going? Mine, because I watched this movie, was weird.

  • Spooky Watch: 28 Days Later

    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.…

  • 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…

  • Saturday Morning Cinema: All the President’s Men

    All the king’s horses and all the king’s men, couldn’t put President Nixon back together again.

  • Saturday Morning Cinema: Modern Times

    Man creates machine. Man becomes machine. Machine takes over the world. Charlie Chaplin also made a really good movie about trying to make it in the world.

  • Saturday Morning Cinema: The Wild Bunch

    Saturday Morning Cinema: The Wild Bunch

    The “Wild West” of American history had to expire at some point. Territorial expansion and growth of government authority, coupled with advancing technology, rang the death knell for an era of lawlessness and frontierism. The Wild Bunch focuses on a point during that time where the United States was still establishing its southern and western…