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[Purchase DVD] Costa-Gavras’ Missing is in the same vein as his brilliant film Z. Instead of the leadup to the military coup in Greece that Z covers, Missing takes place in the immediate aftermath of the military coup in Chile, leading to…
[Purchase DVD] This is It is SO. GOOD. If you like music at all you need to go see it! It’s like going to rock and roll church. Seriously. I had reservations going in that it might be a movie to just…
[Purchase DVD] A young couple is haunted by a ghost or demon, so the skeptical boyfriend begins to film themselves sleeping every night, with increasingly disturbing results. It has a great concept behind it, because instead of the typical house haunting, the…
10. Monster (2003, Jenkins) It may seem a little off to start this list with a film about a serial killer, as that may not be considered an especially positive portrayal of a lesbian. But I think the film handles that particular…
Image via Wikipedia In 2005, Studio Bones brought to the Japanese airwaves a rather unique science-fiction animated television series entitled Eureka Seven. The series ran from April 2005 to April 2006 and followed the lives of Renton Thurston and a young girl…
Image via Wikipedia [Purchase T-Shirt] Charles Nelson Reilly is pretty amazing. If you don’t agree — I would argue that you don’t know who he is. He’s perhaps most known for being hilarious on Match Game or perhaps as Hoodoo in Lidsville,…
Cover of Sex and Death 101 [Blu-ray] Movies and TV Shows I watched between the end of April and end of July 2009: Sex and Death 101 (DVD via Netflix) – I rented this mainly because Simon Baker is fucking adorable. This…
Given that the 40th anniversary of Apollo 13 was a week ago, I recently re-watched the 1995 movie Apollo 13, starring Tom Hanks as the happy-go-lucky, all American, apple-pie mission commander Jim Lovell, Bill Paxton as the brash LEM pilot who won’t…
Cover of Brüno [Blu-ray] [Purchase DVD] Before I start the real review for this movie, I want to mention the one thing I did not like about it, just to get it out of the way before it feels like an interruption…
Cover of Taking of Pelham One Two Three [Purchase DVD] If there’s a good thing about remakes in general, even ones that aren’t very good, it’s that they can rekindle interest in the original. I’ve basically heard nothing but bad things about…