First Squad is what happens when Russian storytellers hire Japanese anime studios to animate their work. The result is a beautiful looking picture with a compelling story line.

BUT.

One of the most interesting aspects of the production, ended up being one of the most distracting things about it. Interspersed between the “acts” was a series of ( Read more... )

...I must blog about it.

The Devil's Chair. It's bad on a level that made me look up the writers, directors and producers on IMDb to see if they had been responsible for THIS, too. (They weren't, this being a UK effort, but it had teh same flavor of suckitude.)

No spoiler-cut, because if you can't see the ending of this movie ten minutes in (sans a ( Read more... )

This should be familiar to some of you by now, here's mine and I may or may not have repeated movies (but not quotes) from some of the others, but I tried not to. Some may be blazingly obvious, others... not so much.
Pick 20 of your favorite movies.
Go to IMDb, and find a quote from each movie.
Post them here for everyone to guess.
BOLD it when someone ( Read more... )

• 14:46 There is something very wrong in Hollywood when GORE VERBINSKI is going to "remake" Clue: tinyurl.com/wtfclue "Flames!" #

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• 19:01 Waiting for take-out delivery and getting ready to see My Bloody Valentine 3-D. Yes, I know. Don't judge. :D #

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• 15:22 Copy, Paste, Edit, Repeat, ad nauseum, ad infinitum.... #
• 18:41 Ate an unhealthy dinner of comfort food. Want to nap, must yoga first. Then 24, or a nap. Still deciding. #
• 22:43 I saw My Bloody Valentine and I still haven't formed a distinct opinion about it. It may require re-watching with a horror-buddy. Hmmm. #
• 23:19 Wait, you're telling ( Read more... )

• 23:44 Haaaate normal movie theaters. Haaaate. #

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• 17:16 THIS is a travesty. Keanu as Spike?!?!?! tinyurl.com/cboybebop #
• 19:58 Bill paying. Ew. Used too much electricity last month. Boo. #

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Yes, while not entirely immune to holiday cheer, I was generally Grinch-like this season. (I think it's the lack of snow - 68 degrees on Christmas day does not feel like Christmas to my Rocky Mountain-raised ass.)

So instead of watching the usual parade of happy holiday fare, I Netflix'd Black X-Mas. And, yes, it was the remake and not the original ( Read more... )

There is a horrid scene transition from Agnes' blonde hair to Ruby's as the latter lays back in bed, a nurse assisting her. Ruby asks where Leigh is and the nurse guesses, "Bathroom, maybe?" The nurse turns to leave and when she grasps the doorknob she has to jiggle it several times before it opens. "They were supposed to have someone fix this," ( Read more... )