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Archive for the 'Movies' Category

Little Miss Sunshine

Monday, September 25th, 2006

I don’t think Faith and I have simultaneously enjoyed a movie as much as Little Miss Sunshine since we saw Garden State. In terms of contemporary comedy/dramas, I think Garden State sets the bar for us.
This movie has just the right balance of humor and misery that you can simultaneously laugh at it while [...]

Hotel: A Study in Sucking

Monday, August 8th, 2005

I challenge you to find a worse movie than Hotel by Mike Figgis. Just give up now. You can’t do it. Not with Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal, not with Leprechaun 5: in the Hood. Nope – when it comes to terrible films, those two gems have nothing on Hotel.
Where Hotel succeeds in sucking, where [...]

Catching Up With

Sunday, June 26th, 2005

Probably no secret that I’ve been in a mood lately. Blame it on a slow reaction to turning 30. I tend to react pretty slowly to emotional things. So let’s catch up with what I’ve been up to.
Land of the Dead
I’m a big fan of the zombie genre. In fact, they’re my favorite horror [...]

Life Lessions from “Cabin Fever”

Monday, April 18th, 2005

During a bout with insomnia this weekend, I caught the horror movie "Cabin Fever" on HBO. It’s interesting how something can be a bad movie, and a good horror movie at the same time. It was sufficiently scary for a 2am horror movie, and what it lacked in story it made up for in [...]

Ring 2

Sunday, March 20th, 2005

The Ring 2 sucked, in no uncertain terms. The first The Ring was a great horror movie – my favorite since the first Scream. But this sequel doesn’t leverage any of the things that made the first one such an engaging film. The characters personalities are inconsistent with theirs from the first movie. There’s [...]