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Bringing Up Baby

 by Len Mariani

BRINGING UP BABY – (1938)  Katherine Hepburn & Cary Grant

     When I first saw “Bringing Up Baby” some 25 years ago, it was on a Boston public TV station that showed old movies on Saturday nights.  I was literally laughing out loud.  It is, in my opinion, one of the funniest s…

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Crystal Fairy and Michael's Magical Mescaline Migration

  by Allan Day 

     Full disclosure: I have been to a higher plane of existence. At least, that's how it felt at the time. Hallucinogens will do that to you. That is why people seek them out; it's called a “trip” because that's what it feels like: a journey to a different kind of consciousnes…

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With Friends like These... Who Needs this Movie?

 by Bryan Renfro

     Watching "Bachelorette" is one of the more frustrating movie experiences I've had in a while. Maybe because I don't usually seek out more recent comedies, since most of them seem really dumb and pandering. And so, I usually don't bother. Plus this movie seemed from the pitc…

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Double Indemnity

 by Len Mariani

Hi, I’m back.  Here’s another classic film well worth seeing. 

DOUBLE INDEMNITY – (1944) 

Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, & Edward G. Robinson.

     This film came from a book by James M. Cain who wrote quite a few crime novels.  It’s told in flashback, so I am not …

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Pacific Rim

 

by Dave "The Conduit" Davis

Director: Guillermo del Toro

Stars: Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Rinko Kikuchi 

The Plot: There are always a couple of films that look like they're going to be the stand outs in the Summer season when the first trailers start to come out. For me, one of th…

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Notorious

 by Len Mariani

Hello.  Just so you know, I have been a big fan of the classic films for a long time.  Certain films I can watch over and over and pick up something that I didn’t notice previously.  This is one of my favorites.

NOTORIOUS – (1946) Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman & Claude Rains.…

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Cruel Summer? The Films of 2013, So Far.

 

by Dave "The Conduit" Davis

     Maybe it's just me, but has this summer's films seemed more violent than usual? 

     I'm not calling for Hollywood to examine itself, or that our children will be scarred ("Won't someone think of the CHILDREN?"). It's just an observation, …

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An Americanized Fairy Tale

 by Bryan Renfro

     As I watched the movie "Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters", almost immediately I began to get a very specific feeling. A familiar feeling. An patriotic feeling? Well, maybe a little bit. But I do feel that this fairy tale movie is very different from most traditional version…

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Much Ado About Nothing

 by Dave "The Conduit" Davis

Much Ado About Nothing

Directed by Joss Whedon

Staring Alexis Denisof, Amy Acker, Reed Diamond and Fran Kranz

     The PlotOne of the great crimes of high school is making students read Shakespeare — at least without watching it be performed first. Stripp…

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World War Z

 by Dave "The Conduit" Davis

Directed by Marc Forster

Starring Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos and Daniella Kertesz

Rated PG-13

     The PlotMuch has been said that the film World War Z bares little, if any, resemblance to the 2006 novel of the same name by Max Brooks, and it's true. While…

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Heart Warming Bodies

 by Cameron Ross Price

     I don’t think the description “Heart Throbbing Romance” has ever been more appropriately applied than to last February’s apocalyptic love story Warm Bodies. Releasing this movie just before Valentine’s day was probably a none-too-subtle attempt to cash in on the feel …

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This Is The End

 

by Dave "The Conduit" Davis

     The Plot: When the apocalypse comes down, society will quickly reassign how valuable certain of its members are. People who have historically been at the lower, less-appreciated levels - laborers, craftsmen, and others who actually make our world work …

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Fast & Furious 6

 

by Dave "The Conduit" Davis

     The PlotAfter the events of Fast 5, Dom (Vin Diesel), Brian (Paul Walker) and the crew have a ton of money and are living life large on the lamb in Spain. Brian and Dom's sister Mia (Jordana Brewster) welcome their first child into the world, and the…

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Fast Five

 

 by Dave "The Conduit" Davis

     The Plot: The story to Fast Five opens just mere seconds after the end of the previous film, Fast and Furious. Truck hijack specialist Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) is on a prison bus, making his way to a 25-to-life stay and the federal penitentiary, e…

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Fast & Furious 4

 

by Dave "The Conduit" Davis

     The PlotAfter the NOS-less and bald-man lacking third installment of "Tokyo Drift," the "Fast and Furious" franchise gets back to business, bringing back most of the surviving characters from the first film, and only dropping the "the"s from the title…

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Man of Steel

 

by Dave "The Conduit" Davis

"You're the answer, son. You're the answer to 'are we alone in the universe'."

"What if I don't want to be?"

     This exchange between Clark Kent and his adopted father sums up quite a bit about the latest Superman film Man of Steel, another attempt to r…

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The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift

 

 by Dave "The Conduit" Davis

     The PlotRemember back in 2006, when drifting was all the rage? You'd be driving to the grocery, come back home, rev the engine as you pulled the e-brake and slide sideways into the driveway? No? Well, you must not have been living in Tokyo, where app…

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2 Fast, 2 Furious

 

 by Dave "The Conduit" Davis 

     The Plot: Didn't get enough fast? Running short of some furious? Well, then, 2 Fast 2 Furious is just the ticket (Get it? Like a speeding ticket? Nevermind.). Picking up a bit after the events of "The Fast and the Furious," disgraced ex-cop Brian O'C…

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The Quick & Angry Project

The Quick & Angry Project: Or, Why View and Review All the Fast & Furious Films in One Week?

 by Dave "The Conduit" Davis

     It was June, 2001. America was going through a boom time. The housing market would never fail, the presidency of George W. Bush was going well, everything was going gan…

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My Darker Side

 

by Bryan Renfro 

     I was immediately drawn just to the title... "I Used to Be Darker". Beautiful and grim, it already begins to set the mood for a film I hadn't even seen yet. That line is taken from a from a Bill Callahan song, and it does in fact perfectly capture the tone of what you a…

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