October 2009 Movies November 2, 2009
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The Alligator People
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Wild Oranges
The Flesh and the Fiends
I Walked With a Zombie
Mad Love
Undead
Cabin Fever
Zombieland *
Tales of Terror
Isle of the Dead
American Psycho
Earth vs. The Flying Saucers
I Sell the Dead
The Wicker Man
Phantasm
I Married a Monster From Outer Space
20 Million Miles to Earth
It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (although technically a TV special)
The Mystery of the Wax Museum
Suspiria
John Q
Vampyr: Der Traum des Allan Gray
Morsure (Bitten) #
Battlestar Galactica: The Plan
Teeth
The Black Room
The Man They Could Not Hang
The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror (DVD Compilation of TV Episodes)
* Movies seen in theaters
# Short films
“Don’t drink that. There was a fish swimming around in the percolator.” October 26, 2009
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Cine-Rama is back with a brand new episode!
Cine-Rama Podcast Episode 28 – A Damn Fine Cup Of Coffee
Christian and Keith sit down once again with special guest Eric Martin (DC Noise, The Trip, Comics Playground). In this episode they discuss Twin Peaks, the seminal television show from David Lynch and Mark Frost. No backwards talking dwarves were harmed in the making of this episode.
And now links:
US Special Forces are field testing a medical plasma knife which could be the first step towards me actually getting a lightsaber. http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2009-10/us-special-forces-field-test-plasma-knife
The amazing! The crawling! The disgusting! The blob robot! http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2009-10/cronenbergian-blob-bot-ready-roll-or-rather-ooze
Halloween Horror Countdown 2009 Day 1 October 2, 2009
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The Alligator People
1959
Directed by Roy Del Ruth
Who knew that shooting someone in the face with gamma rays was a good idea for a medical procedure? The legislators currently working on healthcare reform could learn a lot from this movie.
The plot is pretty simple to break down. A scientist attempts to create a super cure by injecting people with alligator hormones, until, in a shocking twist, they become . . . wait for it . . . Alligator People!
There’s also a weird framing device used wherein they are dealing with suppressed memories, but that doesn’t have anything to do with the story really.
This film has everything you could expect from a bad black and white horror film. A drunken hook-handed man, bad science, cheap rubber suits, casual racism, gaping plot holes, screaming ladies with always perfectly maintained hair, a mad scientist, um, Lon Chaney.
It was good to see that the tradition of horror film stupidity started early. Immediate upon seeing a box clearly labeled “DANGER RADIOACTIVE” what does our protagonist do? That’s right, she sits on it.
A-doy!
I give it one spooky pumpkin out of five.
September 2009 Movies October 1, 2009
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The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
High Sierra
District 9 *
Inglorious Basterds *
The Time Machine
Iron Monkey
Towelhead
Degrassi Goes Hollywood
I’m Gonna Get You Sucka
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
Point Blank
Mysterious Island
Atlantis, the Lost Continent
Destination Moon
The Cassidy Kids
It Happened One Night
Key Largo
Gran Torino
True Romance
* Movies I watched in the theater
Another Screening and Award For 24 Frames September 21, 2009
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From Brad:
“24 Frames” was well received at the IRIS film festival in Huntington, PA, this past weekend. It won an award for “best narrative short”. This is the festival when I screened an in-progress version of the film in 2007 and talked about the stop-motion process.
Be sure to be on the look out for Brad’s next film, a traditional 2D animated piece titled “Of Frogs and Gods”
August 2009 Movies September 1, 2009
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The First Men in the Moon
Funny People *
Monster-A-Go-Go
The Limey
The Mutant Chronicles
This is Not a Film
From the Earth to the Moon
Waltz With Bashir
Green Lantern: First Flight
A Patch of Blue
In a Lonely Place
Azumi
Doctor Strange
The Big Heat
Airplane!
The Lodger
Westworld
My Sister’s Keeper *
The Mouse That Roared
* Movies I watched in theater
50 Films You Need to Watch in Order to Understand Me August 2, 2009
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Star Wars (all of ‘em)
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Dark City
Seven Samurai
Yojimbo
Gojira (aka Godzilla)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Labyrinth
The Dark Crystal
The Princess Bride
Children of Men
Watchmen: Director’s Cut
The Dark Knight
Garden State
Blade Runner
Akira
The Iron Giant
The Incredibles
Wall-E
The Goonies
Ed Wood
Planet of the Apes (Original)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (Original)
Shaun of the Dead
Night of the Living Dead
Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan
Star Trek (2009)
Hot Fuzz
Clash of the Titans
Young Frankenstein
The Blues Brothers
Grosse Point Blank
Office Space
Iron Man
Spider-Man
Spider-Man 2
The Big Lebowski
The Crow
Good Will Hunting
The Thing
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Ghostbusters
Unbreakable
Kill Bill
The Majestic
Predator
Rope
The Maltese Falcon
Renaissance Man
The Lord of the Rings
July 2009 Movies August 1, 2009
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The Last Word
The Lady From Shanghai
Public Enemies *
The 400 Blows
Twilight
7 Faces of Dr. Lao
My Name is Bruce
Charade
They Came From Beyond Space
Smoke Signals
A Day at the Races
Lolita
The Terror of Tiny Town
Ugetsu
Watchmen: Director’s Cut
The Nines
The Burmese Harp
* movies seen in theater
I did this meme July 23, 2009
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On Facebook there’s a meme going around asking people to list 15 books they thought would always stick with them (you have to be able to think of them in 15 minutes). I thought I’d share my results here as well, so here they are in no particular order.
Dreaming Pachinko
Tokyo Suckerpunch
The Maltese Falcon
American Gods
Neverwhere
Glory Road
Mere Christianity
If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B-Movie Actor
Rats, Bats, and Vats
The Best of H.P. Lovecraft
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl
Men of Tomorrow
The War of the Worlds
Fahrenheit 451
We’re Not Nerds. No We’re Not Nerds at All. July 22, 2009
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Keith: So I think I figured it out.
Keith: You’re actually Louis the 14th . . . sometimes called The Sun King.
Keith: You’re hiding in our century in the body of an immigrant male prostitute to escape your ancient foe the Grim Reaper.
Keith: You’ll be on your run until you can find the ancient forgotten city of Shangri La . . . where in its computer archives lay the key to your salvation.
Luke Foster: Way to steal my fanfic idea.
