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The Avengers

I didn’t really have high expectation for The Avengers. Or “Marvel’s The Avengers” as it’s officially titled (and good for them. They’ve earned it). I enjoyed all of the movies that lead up to it to varying degrees. Even Iron Man 2, which I thought was pretty mediocre, was still …

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How Pet Sematary Changed My Life

In 1989 I was eleven years old and I was not fond of horror movies. I had seen horror movies but they scared me and I didn’t understand why a person would choose to do something that scared them. I didn’t enjoy the sensation of fear and there were things …

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Silent House

I knew very little about this movie before going into the theater tonight. It was playing at the cheap theater by my house which is crazy old and outdated but they sometimes get the movies that either didn’t play at the big multiplexes or only played for a weekend before …

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Jack and Shelly

One of the great tragedies of The Shining is that in the right context, Shelly Duvall was absolutely breathtakingly beautiful… The Shinning was decidedly not that context. I’ve never seen this photo, and it’s odd to see her in that context looking pretty. I’m just so used to seeing her …

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Martha Marcy May Marlene and Take Shelter

I’m writing about these movies together for two reasons. The first is because I watched them almost back to back. The other is that they’re both about paranoia and mental illness. One is due to external influences and the other is internal. Both feature brilliant performances by their leads, and …

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Top 5 Movie Villains (as of July 2009)

This is an old post from my old site that I felt like reposting because I like it. It was originally posted on Paracinema.net but isn’t there anymore because I had a paranoid freakout a little while ago and asked them to take down all my posts. Anyway, here it is …

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Top 10 of 2011

I didn’t see nearly as many movies as I would have liked, but that’s always the case. There were plenty of movies that I probably should have seen but never got around to it. The Skin I Live In. Take Shelter. Tree of Life. The Artist. A bunch of others. …

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The Loved Ones

There’s a certain style of movie that tends to bother me. It’s this deliberately tacky, chaotic, nightmarish satire of modern culture. John Waters is a master of it. It’s one of the reasons I disliked the second Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie. It’s also one of the reasons I’ve never been …