Category Archives: Movies
October 4, 2013 Fact or Film Fiction: Into the Wild
Fact or Film Fiction is a new series by Meags that looks at films claiming to be about true events and seeing how they stack up to said events. Whether the film is good or bad is ancillary to the discussion (it might be mentioned, but it’s not the focus). My Verdict: Wildly melodramatic. When […]
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October 2, 2013 Dire DVDs: Darkroom
The Darkroom, according to the tagline, is where “Old Passions Develop”. Nice use of a photography term there, tag line writer. The blurb writer has also really found his photographic groove, informing us that there’s a killer in the dark with a negative attitude. My sides may split with this hilarity. Of course, we’re in the […]
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September 26, 2013 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
My 143rd movie of the year was Clint Eastwood’s “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.” I’d seen bits of it before, but never the whole thing. A friend of mine gave me the Blu-Ray because he bought it and then bought the “Man with No Name” trilogy, and he decided I need to have […]
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September 25, 2013 Dire DVDs: In Search of America
This is the first in a brand new feature, wherein Lyn finds DVDs in the $2 bin and watches them. When you love movies, you have to take the good with the bad, and we’ve opted to let Lyn take the bad. Jeff Bridges is “In Search of America”. I wouldn’t have thought America would […]
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September 17, 2013 Tuesday 10: John Cusack Movies
This list is inspired by a recent viewing of Say Anything… My wife had never seen it and I found the Blu-Ray for $5 at Target with the intention of rewatching. See – and here’s a terrible confession – I didn’t remember liking it all that much. I know, right? That’s like a cardinal sin […]
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