I got together to finally watch Cabin In The Woods yesterday. It was one of two Joss Whedon projects to hit theaters back in the spring of this year (released one week before Avengers, which is the other) and I was a little skeptical when my friend said Avengers was going to have its work cut out for it if it was going to be better than Cabin In ( Read more... )

My friend, Kelly, hosts movie nights every Thursday in October each year. A bunch of us get together, eat candy and munchies, have delicious fall friendly alcoholic heated spiced cider beverages and watch Halloween friendly movies. The week before last, we watched Army of Darkness and the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre (which I'd never seen ( Read more... )

I think I mentioned before that my family's holiday get-together was last Sunday and I immediately went from my grandma's house to enjoy a Bad Movie Night with some friends. We ended up watching the classic late '80s horror film, Pumpkinhead and followed it up with 1985's Phenomena (also known as Creepers in the U.S.), a Dario Argento film starring ( Read more... )

Just got back from this week's October Movie Night and I can chalk yet another classic off my list of movies I need to see. We watched the original Psycho and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Spiced cider (plus rum), cookies, chips and dip, and classic cinema. Great times. Also, the wind picked up and it actually started storming with lightning and ( Read more... )

Attended this week's October movie night tonight. We watched Gothica, which I hadn't seen before and enjoyed, and It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. Hadn't seen Peanuts in years, and it does not age the most gracefully. Ah well. Now I just have to not have nightmares and not be a wuss, 'cause of all the scary/horror movies out there, ( Read more... )