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December Recap Ratings range from BOMB to **** Bolded titles are first viewings. An Autumn Afternoon *** Beneath the Surface *** Brunch of the Living Dead **1/2 Constantine's Sword *** The Damned Don't Cry *** The Dark Knight *** The Day the Earth Stood Still **** Dead and...

November Recap Ratings range from BOMB to **** Bolded titles are first viewings. The Art of Travel **1/2 The Band's Visit *** Battle of the Bone * Brain Dead (2007) **1/2 The Counterfeiters *** Dead Set ***1/2 Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed BOMB! High Noon **** The Inner Life...

The Band's Visit (2007) Viewed 11/11/2008 (first viewing) An Egyptian police band accepts an invitation to play in Israel but ends up in the wrong town. There they make connections with the townspeople that they wouldn't have thought possible. Then they leave. Decent enough, but I'm not so...

Moscow Zero (2006) Viewed 11/5/2008 (first viewing) Abysmal film stars Vincent Gallo as a priest who descends into Moscow's labyrinthine system of underground tunnels in search of an archaeologist friend. He and his guides wander around, a little albino girl runs all over the place trying...

Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (2007) Viewed 11/4/2008 (first and last viewing) Let me say right off the bat that I'm hardly a member of the choir when it comes to this movie. Still, I figured I should at least watch it before making a final condemnation. And it was every bit as bad as...

October Recap Ratings range from BOMB to **** Bolded titles are first viewings. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein ***1/2 Bay of the Dead * C.H.U.D. II: Bud the Chud *1/2 The Corpse Eaters ** Dance of the Dead **1/2 Dark Water *** Dead Beat * Evil Town *1/2 Ghostbusters...

September Recap Ratings range from BOMB to **** Bolded titles are first viewings. A.I. ***1/2 Dangerous Crossing *** Dead Country 1/2* Enter the Dragon ***1/2 The Fall ***1/2 Game Over *** Grave Mistake ** Impulse **1/2 Kottentail * Land of the Dead *** Night of the Not So...

I'm still here, Mario! The new gf is seriously cutting down on my movie-watching, but to be honest I was probably watching way too many to begin with! :D August Recap Ratings range from BOMB to **** Bolded titles are first viewings. Arsenic and Old Lace ***1/2 Blame It On Fidel! ***...

July Recap Ratings range from BOMB to **** Bolded titles are first viewings. The Abyss *** After the Day ** American Zombie *** Ballroom **1/2 Before the Rain ***1/2 Biker Zombies from Detroit *1/2 Black Mama, White Mama *** Casablanca **** Chainsaw Maid *** Chop Shop *** The...

June Recap Ratings range from BOMB to **** Bolded titles are first viewings. Amelie ***1/2 Be Kind Rewind **1/2 Boarding Gate *** Bungalow *** Cassandra's Dream *** Classe Tous Risques *** The Commitments ***1/2 Death of a Cyclist *** Ecstasy **1/2 The Eye ** The Guatemalan...

May Recap Ratings range from BOMB to **** Bolded titles are first viewings. [size=1]Amazing Grace *** & Teller **1/2 A Bell from Hell *** Boys Town *** Bubba Ho-Tep *** Cesar & Rosalie *** Coffy **1/2 Contact *** The Convent ** Deader Living Through Chemistry ** Delusions of...

A naked Barbara Hershey is painful viewing? :D

Delusions of Grandeur (1971) Viewed 5/12/2008 (first viewing) Dull, lumbering French comedy about a disgraced tax collector, his valet and their exploits in 16th-century Spain. :star: :star: out of :star: :star: :star: :star: Variety Lights (1950) Viewed 5/12/2008 (first...

Contact (1997) Viewed 5/5/2008 Revisit. :star: :star: :star: out of :star: :star: :star: :star: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) Viewed 5/5/2008 Revisit. :star: :star: :star: 1/2 out of :star: :star: :star: :star: Amazing Grace (2006) Viewed 5/6/2008 (first...

Skin Crawl (2007) Viewed 5/1/2008 (first viewing) Cheap chiller has scream queen Debbie Rochon playing a murdered wife who comes back from the grave for revenge against her husband and his scheming girlfriend. Rochon is easy on the eyes (even zombified), but this E.C. Comics-styled tale...

April Recap Ratings range from BOMB to **** Bolded titles are first viewings. Alien Vs. Predator: Requiem **1/2 Army of the Dead *** Arranged *** The Aviator's Wife *** Before the Devil Knows You're Dead *** Biohazardous ** Black Legion *** Boxcar Bertha *** Boyfriends and...

Black Legion (1936) Viewed 4/28/2008 (first viewing) Humphrey Bogart stars as a factory worker whose expected promotion is given instead to a "foreigner." He then joins a Ku Klux Klan-ish secret society with the usual tragic results. Earnest drama still packs a punch. :star: :star...

Picture Snatcher (1933) Viewed 4/21/2008 (first viewing) James Cagney stars as a crook and ex-con turned tabloid photograher. Can he win the respect of his girlfriend's cop father? Entertaining early vehicle for the star. :star: :star: :star: out of :star: :star: :star: :star: It's...

Smart Money (1931) Viewed 4/14/2008 (first viewing) Enjoyable crime flick stars Edward G. Robinson as a small town barber turned big city gambler. But when he gets burned by shysters, he plots revenge - a scheme that may land him in trouble with the cops! James Cagney has a smallish role...

A Love to Hide (2005) Viewed 4/7/2008 (first viewing) Two gay men in WWII Paris hide a Jewish girl from the occupying Nazis. Tragedy ensues when she is discovered by a brother of one of the men - he falls in love with her, she spurns his advances, he retaliates by informing on his brother...

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) Viewed 4/1/2008 (first viewing) Tim Burton's bloody adaptation of the musical. Great, grand guignol fun, marred only by a somewhat abrupt finale. :star: :star: :star: out of :star: :star: :star: :star: Horror 101 (2000)...

March Recap Ratings range from BOMB to **** Bolded titles are first viewings. Aguirre, the Wrath of God **** Angels and Insects ***1/2 The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford *** Atonement *** Automatons *** Automaton Transfusion **1/2 The Baby's Room **1/2...

Troy (2004) Viewed 3/24/2008 (first viewing) Solid, old-fashioned epic chronicling the siege and sack of Troy. Not great, but quite enjoyable. :star: :star: :star: out of :star: :star: :star: :star: The Other Conquest (2007) Viewed 3/24/2008 (first viewing) Subdued (compared...

Mario, thanks for the recommendations - I can probably get those that are on DVD through Xploited Cinema.

Michael, I had the same problems with the Bunuel discs on my Magnavox DVD/VCR combo, but they played fine on my Malata.

To Let (2006) Viewed 3/17/2008 (first viewing) Another from the Spanish horror anthology Films to Keep You Awake, this tense, bloody outing has a young couple being terrorized by a potential landlord who's gone to extremes in securing new tenants for her condemned apartment building...

Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) Viewed 3/10/2008 Revisited Werner Herzog's masterpiece. :star: :star: :star: :star: out of :star: :star: :star: :star: Postmen in the Mountains (1998) Viewed 3/10/2008 (first viewing) Engrossing Chinese drama has a young man taking over his...

Automatons (2007) Viewed 3/1/2008 Retro, experimental sci-fi'er set in an apocalyptic future where the few surviving humans try to wipe each other out with clunky robot warriors. Grim, allegorical tale with a killer climax. :star: :star: :star: out of :star: :star: :star: :star: Il...

February Recap Ratings range from BOMB to **** Bolded titles are first viewings. Across the Universe *** American Gangster *** A Real Young Girl *** Becoming Jane *** Better Off Undead **1/2 Black Moon *** Blue State *** Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee *** The Chilling **...

American Gangster (2007) Viewed 2/25/2008 (first viewing) Ridley Scott's crime drama has honest cop Russell Crowen being recruited by the FBI to help take down crime czar Denzel Washington. Solid, but overrated. And why does the whole thing look like it was shot through a pair of...