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District 9
I remember seeing the commercials for this and not being terribly impressed. I ended up watching it anyway. The main idea here is that an alien ship ran out of fuel and ended up in Johannesburg, where...
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Where the Wild Things Are
What’s wrong with me these days? Am I a glutton for punishment? Or do I just have bad luck when it comes to watching movies? All too often, I end up watching garbage and then mourning the loss of two...
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Bathory
Running a bit more than two hours and divided into three segments, Bathory was one of the highest-budget Central European productions ever. Where one might be expecting a salacious tale of bathing in...
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John Borowski made was is apparently the first film to focus on America’s first serial killer, Hermann Judgett a.k.a. H.H. Holmes. Making use of a fair amount of photos and drawings from the time (late...
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Skjult/Hidden
Kai Koss (Kristoffer Joner) unwittingly ends up in his hometown, which he ran away from nearly two decades earlier. We see flashback sequences of his family, including a psychotic mother nearly...
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Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars
I didn’t watch this when it was on television, and I just finished watching the series a few days ago. This follows what happens in the end of the series, when our heros John Crichton (Ben Browder)...
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Red Lights
I’m always apprehensive about these movies with a hardcore skeptic as a main character, because you just know that their story arc will involve some radical change in the end. I have mixed feelings...
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Silent Hill Revelation 3D
I’ve said this before, but I’m going to make a Venn diagram to further illustrate my point: video game logic and movie logic don’t always overlap. That was a problem in the first movie, and it’s a...
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Deliver Us from Evil
I had this in my Netflix queue for a while, and completely forgot about it until last night. It focuses mainly on “Father Ollie,” who abused 25 children in California over a span of twenty years. In...
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God Bless America
“God Bless America” is basically a rant against the celebrity culture, bigots, and rude people, and how these are becoming increasingly common. Frank is basically a good guy who’s fallen on hard times....
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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
The Voyage Home starts off looking fairly serious. Kirk and friends are still on Vulcan, and have decided to go back to Earth to face charges ranging from disobeying orders to theft and destruction of...
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Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
One need not read the credits to figure out Shatner had a hand in writing and directing this; no one else would start the movie with an aging Kirk climbing a mountain. I wasn’t too fond of Spock’s...
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The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh
In the beginning of this film, we see Leon (Aaron Poole) arriving at his estranged mother’s house. He apparently hasn’t talked to her in many years. Her house is entirely filled with statues and weird...
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DMT: The Spirit Molecule
This could have been good. I mean, it was enjoyable, but it’s too problematic to call it “good” because the people in charge are not being scientific. Apparently they did drug experiments with DMT in...
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I am Divine
I am Divine was directed by Jeffrey Schwarz and largely crowd-funded (I donated, so my name is in the very end credits as a “shitkicker”). I was concerned it wouldn’t be much different than previous...
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