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The LO Down

(Obligatory Disclaimer: I have worked on prior films with some of the individuals involved in this one, and found the experience generally pleasant)

In a pitch black room, a young man named Justin (Ward Roberts) sits in a sacred circle, lighting candles, reciting from a Necronomicon-like tome, and drawing blood with a knife. He’s looking to [...]

The articles keep coming…

First, a piece I did for E! on the top 5 Oscar movies most people haven’t seen but should:

5. Food Inc. (Best Documentary Feature)

Why you didn’t see it: Because almost every exposé of the food industry ends up telling you to go vegan, and who needs that? Meat and cheese are delicious!

Why you should: Because [...]

Not enough of you watched this, a month ago

I was a tastemaker in it, too. Right after I said nobody cares about Sam Raimi doing SPIDER-MAN 4, he got dropped.

Review round-up

Though I hope most of you at this point know to go to eonline.com every Friday to check out my stuff, and possibly geekweek.com too, I know some of you don’t want to have to keep track. So here’s a round-up of stuff I’ve done recently. Click the headers to go to the full article:

Fast [...]

So, I watched the Oscar noms live at 5:30 a.m. this morning…

(note for my mother’s benefit: the empty whiskey bottle is a PROP for COMEDIC EFFECT)

New ill LYTeracy column

This one was inspired by my spoiler-heavy defense of HALLOWEEN II and some colleagues’ response to my response. Here’s a portion of it:

I could just listen to Zombie’s commentary, but I’m not sure I want to. Because if I like and appreciate a movie in a particular way, do I really want the director telling [...]

Geekweek movie review: 7 DAYS

In film school, one of the first things you learn about putting together the sound for your celluloid project is that you can never have “no sound.” Even “silence” sounds like something; if you literally put nothing on the soundtrack, it will sound like the speakers have failed, and the audience will be taken out [...]

Twi-hards vs. fanboys!

New ill LYTeracy column is up at GEEKWEEK. Here’s a sample:

Now, can you make an argument that hey, Bram Stoker’s original DRACULA featured some stupid and arbitrary rules too? Yes, I’ll give you that you could: there is no decent explanation given as to why Dracula cannot cross running water, save old superstitions about demons. [...]

44 INCH CHEST review

On the way into the screening for 44 INCH CHEST (I know the title should have a hyphen in it, but it doesn’t, and I’m a full believer in reproducing titles as shown), a colleague was heard to ask, “How come a movie called 44 INCH CHEST only has one woman in the cast?” Like [...]

Ten Years in Review

I have a large article over at Geekweek about the past decade in cinema. Here’s the lede:

(Cue Don LaFontaine voice)

“In a decade…when the world seemed led by self-righteous bullies…”

Okay, pause there for a second. I know some of you are instinctively jerking the knee, and assuming I’m going for [...]

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