Category: Reviews
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Week of October 26th – Whole Lot of Tricks, Not Treats
It came out this week that HBO is panning a limited series that will remake Alfred Hitchcock’s 1963 masterpiece The Birds. Before I get to how I feel about it, here is the premise: Inspired by both Hitchcock’s film and Daphne du Maurier’s short story on which it was loosely based, “The Birds” introduces traveling…
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Week of October 19th – Windy City Adventures Vol. 3
This week was my third time attending the Chicago International Film Festival, and I thought it would be a nice little exercise to share the process I go through to see films there during the festival. I stay at with family up in the northwest suburbs in Chicagoland. From there it is a drive from…
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Week of October 12th – “Where is Chef Boyardee buried?”
Full schedule these next two weeks, but before we get to business, a quick moment for me to get something off my mind. We are now in the heart of October, and if there is one genre that should be above them all this time of year, it is horror. On television, that is pretty…
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Week of September 28th – That Empty Feeling
Didn’t see any films this week because reasons. So what I finally did, after years of thinking about it, was enter the Vulture Movie League. How it works is pretty simple. You get 100 fake dollars to select 8 films, ranging in dollar value. You get points based on box office, Metacritic score, and Awards…
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Week of September 14 – Come Visit Raccoon City
New entry in my category “Do We Really Need This?”: World War Z 2. Deadline reported this week that Paramount has a deal for Brad Pitt to return, as well as Edward Berger to direct. This is yet another chapter in the history that is this sequel. Shortly after the 2013 adaptation of Max Brooks’…
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Week of September 7 – Bookend Mysteries
This weekend, AMC is doing something it hasn’t done yet, and that is scheduling Screen Unseen’s on back to back days. Today at 1 pm, is the first, and tomorrow night at 7 pm, is the second. Both are PG films, and we already basically know what each film will be. With this situation, It…
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Week of August 31st – Always Stay on the Ground
We are now in September, and it’s the beginning of Festival Season. Telluride is currently running until tomorrow, and Venice is going on until Saturday. There are quite a lot of films premiering at those two festivals that I am looking forward to, but most of those won’t get to Michigan for a few months.…
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Week of August 24th – Losing Legends
On Wednesday this week, the news came out that Tim Curry passed away at the age of 80. this came one day after Dolly Parton passed away at the same age. Curry was always an interesting actor to me, and he was the main reason I am not fond of clowns. Still, with those adult…
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Week of June 1st – I Have the Power!
Reviews this week: The Furious, Scary Movie, Carolina Caroline, Masters of the Universe and Power Ballad.
