The Worlds End ~ On The Road To The Apocalypse With Pegg and Frost

The world is going to end someday...  Unlike "This Is the End,” the apocalypse is not supernatural.  In fact, it is quite natural in the context of recent Hollywood blockbusters.  Like the zombie film parody, "Shaun of The Dead" and the buddy cop film parody "Hot Fuzz," "The World's End," is just that, a parody about the end of the world but with heart.  When I was young, on weekends I would watch Bob Hope and Bing Crosby's "On...

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Riddick ~ Ambush

Riddick takes on not only mercenaries, but he also takes on some bizarre creatures. "The infamous Riddick has been left for dead on a sun-scorched planet that appears to be lifeless. Soon, however, he finds himself fighting for survival against alien predators more lethal than any human he's encountered. The only way off is for Riddick to activate an emergency beacon and alert mercenaries who rapidly descend to the planet in search of their...

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You're Next ~ Violence For The Love Of Violence

How much do you know about the significant other you bring home to meet your parents?The movie "You're Next" brings to the screen violence, for the sake of violence, and violence without meaning, and death without honor.  A family reunion turns into a deadly cat and mouse game within a matter of minutes.  Slasher film director, Adam Winegard, gives what horror films seem to want, tension, foreboding, and plenty of blood and gruesome death...

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Sleeping With Your Eyes Open

Sleeping with your eyes open,Resting your tattered brain.Take another sip of brandy.Snort another line of cocaine.Hiding out in the bathroom,Lying in the corner of the floor,Sleeping with your eyes open.Don’t wanna party no more.Sleeping away a headache,Awake, but nobody home.Take another hit of ganja,Just wanna be left alone.Don’t wanna give your number.Wanna leave the pretty girls behindDon’t wanna drop more acidDon’t wanna mess with your mind.Take...

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Insidious Chapter 2 ~ Family Curse

Coming to theaters on September 6th, "Insidious Chapter 2" takes you back to The Further. For those of you who remember the first installment of this dark tale of possession, Josh Lambert (Patrick Wilson) went into The Further to retrieve the soul of his comatose son. Upon returning to the world, something went very wrong, and in the final seconds of the film we find out. Check out this new trailer, titled...

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Insidious Chapter 2 ~ It's Still Happening

Coming to theaters on September 6th, "Insidious Chapter 2" takes you back to The Further. For those of you who remember the first installment of this dark tale of possession, Josh Lambert (Patrick Wilson) went into The Further to retrieve the soul of his comatose son. Upon returning to the world, something went very wrong, and in the final seconds of the film we find out. Check out this new trailer, where Josh tells...

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Forgotten Memories

Turning, looking past theGhost in the mirror.Light, flickering as theScent of flowers rose.Cold, entering her bones and theHair on her arms stands on end.Time, frozen seeminglyForever as a dust mote hangs in the air.Silence, envelopes the room whileDrowning out her fear.Eyes, wide and calm while the young womanSmiles in recognition of the apparition.Withered, yellow, and boney fingers graspsThe young woman's hand.Together, the two touch each otherIn...

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Source Code; A Review of a New Film by Duncan Jones

"Tell Me Everything is Going to Be Okay?"If you look up the definition of the term 'Source Code' in the dictionary, you will find something that goes like this: "A text listing of commands to be compiled or assembled into an executable computer program." I spent many years in the computer programming industry so when I heard that Duncan Jones was calling his new film Source Code I was immediately puzzled. However, as the film unfolds, and...

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Elysium ~ Somewhere Over The Wheel In The Sky

Watching the trailers and hearing the promotional hype for Neil Blomkamp’s new film, "Elysium,"you might get the idea that this movie is going to set the social-political world on fire.  "Elysium" is many things but not that.  The more the world changes the more people stay the same.  It doesn't matter if it is ten years in the future, or one-hundred and fifty, people's mentality doesn't change that easily.  What Neil Blomkamp...

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