Category: Commentary
Here is a collection of my thoughts on a film or collection of films.
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Halloween movie wrap-up, 2024
This year for Halloween, it wasn’t new horror movies that filled my docket, but rather repeat viewings. I’m not normally a re-watcher, what with all the fresh new content coming down the pipe. But both options I chose were super fun to revisit. The first was the classic Shyamalan thriller Signs with my daughter. I…
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Xeno-sequel
The new Alien sequel is out and I loved it.
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Documentaries have ruined me
About 15 years ago, I distinctly remember hearing a radio broadcast that was unlike anything I’d heard before. It wasn’t the usual talk show, news, sports, call-in, top 40 type show. It was engaging. It was a well-crafted story, yet non-fictional. It was refreshing in a landscape of RF wasteland. It was my “driveway moment”…
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Dystopian movies
There’s a special place in my heart for dystopia. I chalk it up to years of pentecostal, end-times, tribulation fervor. Here’s a great list to add to your favorite movie queue: Top 50 Dystopian Movies of All Time
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The Road
My bro-in-law (he pronounces it “bra”, as per young and colloquially hip) recommended I read Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. I finally picked up the novel a few weeks ago was glad I did. It was beautiful in its desolation.
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I drink your milkshake
If you’ve seen There Will Be Blood, then you know might know what this means…
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Trailer Roundup (vol. 12)
“Whatever happened to the trailer roundups,” you ask? That’s what I’d like to know.
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Trailer Roundup (vol. 11)
Let’s all go to the movies!
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Trailer Roundup (vol. 10): Trailer, the Sequel
This week, it’s the second trailers, “sequels” if you will, for a couple I’ve posted about earlier.
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Trailer Roundup (vol. 9)
We start this week’s trailer roundup with Wall-E, Pixar’s latest piece of genius: