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DBDB Top 250 2: Judgment Day or Revenge of the Fallen

Welcome to part two of my five part series on my top five favorite movies. Part two will be discussing the fourth favorite movie in my list of five favorite movies. In an attempt to stay true to the title … Continue reading

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DBDB Top 250 or 5 Simple Movies to Watching my Teenage Daughter

So the title is a bit of a stretch (and creepy), right? I was in trouble like three words into that. I would just like to preface this article by stating that this list is not what I consider to … Continue reading

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Unwatchable or A Genuine Train Wreck

I don’t want to write a whole review about this “film” I have other things to not be doing. Devotees will recall I assumed Unstoppable was a bad movie and against my better judgment I decided to watch it this … Continue reading

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The Man Inside Me or How to Beat Your Wife in 10 Days

The Killer Inside Me is a modern-day take on the “Beauty and the Beast” tale where a New York teen is transformed into a hideous monster in order to find true love…or that could be the super shitty looking movie … Continue reading

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My Big Fat Greek Dogtooth or Sex, Lies, and a Violent Beating Involving a Videotape

Kynodontas [Dogtooth] is the heartwarming tale of a close knit Greek family and their everyday struggle to…Holy shit! Did that kid just kill a kitten with a pair of gardening shears? Yep. Kynodontas is actually the 2011 Academy Awards best … Continue reading

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Seeing Beyond Advertisements

Advertisers in popular culture today possess almost every trick in the bag to further corporate sales. The creators behind commercial advertisements no longer hesitate to graphically depict whatever product they are selling in extreme ways, often exploiting social taboos in … Continue reading

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Two Guys, a Girl, and a Noodle Place or A Man, a Plan, a Noodle Shop, Panama

San Qiang Pai An Jing Qi [A Woman, a Gun, and a Noodle Shop] is a 2009 Chinese remake of the Coen Brothers 1984 film Blood Simple by director Yimou Zhang (or Zhang Yimou, I have never really been certain … Continue reading

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