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Movie Review: Zombie Diaries 2
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Movie Review: The Whole Damn Paranormal Activity Franchise
Paranormal Activity on IMDB (Horror, 86 Minutes, 2007)
Paranormal Activity 2 on IMDB (Horror, 91 Minutes, 2010)
Paranormal Activity 3 on IMDB (Horror, 83 Minutes, 2011)
Paranormal Activity 4 on IMDB (Horror, 88 Minutes, 2012)
I, like everybody else, heard amazing things about this series. The first movie was made on the thinnest of shoestring budgets (less than $15,000) but has since grossed over 100 million. I had never gotten around to watching it. With a fifth movie announced, four in the can and a whole day to kill I figured, “why not a marathon?”
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Movie Review: Noobz
Comedy, 97 Minutes, 2012
This is sorta, kinda, almost a remake of “The Wizard” [IMDB]. Like that weird little classic a group of friends, in this case a “Gears of War 3” clan, go cross-country to compete in a giant video-game championship. The major difference is that the main characters here are thirty-something slackers. The main similarity is that they, also, really don’t seem to know much about gaming.
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Movie Review: Death Race 3: Inferno
“Death Race 3: Inferno” on IMDB
Action, 105 Minutes, 2012
The Death Race movies are really odd ducks. The original “Death Race 2000” [IMDB], released in 1975 by legendary producer Roger Corman [IMDB], showed us the dystopian future of the year 2000. An annual trans-continental race (which actually started in 1980) where points are scored for pedestrian deaths and the brutality of kills is the national sport. The star of the sport is “Frankenstein”, a disfigured racer who has never been beaten.
[There will be spoilers for the previous movies ahead.]
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Movie Review: Silent Hill Revelation
“Silent Hill: Revelation” on IMDB
Horror, 94 Minutes, 2012
This is a sequel to 2006’s underappreciated “Silent Hill” [IMDB]. Where the original movie was more inspired by the video game this movie attempts to merge that mostly original story with the third game. (The “Silent Hill” video game series tends to vacillate between a loosely contiguous plotline and stand-alone stories set in its universe. The third game was essentially a direct sequel to the first. For what it’s worth the second game, which connects to very little, was the best game in the series and one of the best games ever made.)
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Movie Review: Age of the Hobbit
“Age of the Hobbit” (aka “Clash of the Empires”) on IMDB
Fantasy, 87 Minutes, 2012
[After I released this review I learned that this was also released under the title “Lord of the Elves” and this is how you’ll find it – if you really insist on doing so – on Amazon.com Instant Video.]
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Movie Review: The Perfect Family
Comedy/Drama, 84 Minutes, 2011
This was a nice little movie. Kathleen Turner [IMDB] plays Eileen Cleary, a fanatically devout catholic woman. She’s active in the church and community and by all impressions as model a catholic as anybody could want. Of course, if it all ended there this wouldn’t be much of a movie.
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Movie Review: Zero Dark Thirty
Drama, 157 Minutes, 2012
This was a great movie. Incredibly well acted, incredibly well paced, incredibly well written. It deserves all the accolades it received and more – moreso because it could have so easily been a self-aggrandizing, America – fuck yeah! anthem but instead delved much deeper and much more honestly.
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Movie Review: Wreck-it Ralph
Fantasy, 108 Minutes, 2012
This movie aspires to be nothing less than the “Toy Story” [IMDB] of the video game generation. It has the same “your playthings have private lives when you leave” theme. It also features similar “new v. old” and “respect v. apathy” plotlines. Finally it populates its world with a mixture of classic characters and original characters that fit classic archetypes. The arrogance! The audacity! The cheek!
Damn if it doesn’t (almost) do it.
