your mother sews socks that smell: a sort of review of the exorcist

We watched The Exorcist last night. It was part of AMC’s MonsterFest so, being on AMC, it was a bit cut up and it was the original version, the one without the Regan spider walk, without some of the Captain Howdy flashes.
I saw The Exorcist in the theater when I was 11 years old. When [...]

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and restore freedom to the galaxy……

One of my favorite thought-provoking questions I’ve ever been asked:
If you could erase your memory of any movie from your mind…just wave a wand and it’s as if your brain never saw this film before…what movie would you choose to erase just for the sheer joy of seeing it again for the first time?
It’s the [...]

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want to see something really scary?

Hey, it’s Friday the 13th! Which makes me think about frightening things. Well, not really, as I’m not scared of a day/number combination. I have a lot of weird fears, but this ain’t one of them. But it does make me think of horror movies. Or maybe it just gives me a [...]

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another day, another list to take apart

(17 hours smoke free and counting)
Robert Berry of Retro Crush read my take on his cover songs list yesterday and commented that I have too many rules for list making.
I own up to that. I know I do. It’s the OCD in me.
I’m about to do it again.
I mentioned yesterday the new AFI 100 Greatest [...]

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28 Weeks Later, A Review

First, let me say that I was never a fan of the first movie of this series, 28 Days Later. Everyone called it a zombie movie. No. Zombies are the living dead. These people are not dead. Therefore, not zombies.
Now that I have that out of the way, let’s cut to the chase.
This movie SUCKED.
I [...]

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