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Flashback: Scanners (andrew’s Choice)

Posted in Horror, Netflix, Reader's Choice, Review, Sci-Fi, tagged , , on August 20, 2008 | No Comments »

Ah, andrew.   One of the glorious things about andrew is that not only do I get to chit chat about hockey (did you know I like other things outside of movies?!) with andrew, I get to chit chat about a variety of movies we both love.
One of these that popped up was Scanners.
I’m unapologetic about [...]

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Flashback: Killer Klowns from Outer Space (Shawn’s Choice)

Posted in Netflix, Reader's Choice, Review, Sci-Fi, tagged , on August 10, 2008 | 3 Comments »

I love movies like this.   I love movies where you know, you just know, someone made something so perfectly awesomely bad on purpose.
How, you ask, is it so awesomely bad?
Let’s take it step by step:

The super stealthy clown tracking method:   Make your own bird dog animal balloon and have at it.

Okay, so these clowns like [...]

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#1459: Fantastic Planet (Piper’s Choice)

Posted in Netflix, Reader's Choice, Review, Sci-Fi, tagged on August 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »

What a delightfully trippy movie.

Fantastic Planet is an animated movie that tells the story of two species: the giant Traags and the miniature Oms. The Oms are a put upon, abused sort of people who either live in some sort of freedom but absolute squalor or are kept by pets by the freaky looking [...]

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Upcoming Movies That Make Caitlin Go, “EEE!”

Posted in Action, Comedy, Movies In General, Sci-Fi, tagged , , , , , on June 25, 2008 | 15 Comments »

Here on 1,416 and Counting I normally do old movies. They usually haven’t been in a theater in years. However, this doesn’t mean I don’t keep up on new movies; it’s just that some of them (like Beverly Hills Chihuahua) strike me as not worth my time, suicide-inducing or a movie you [...]

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#1439: The Importance of Being Russell

Posted in Comedy, Review, Sci-Fi, tagged on May 14, 2008 | No Comments »

Soooo, a little while ago, I got sent this nifty little screener of an independent film called The Importance of Being Russell.
It’s a hard movie to nail down, but I guess it would best be described as ’50’s sci-fi fare with a healthy dose of redneck comedy with a splash of the comedic sensibilities of [...]

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#1434: The Blob (1958)

Posted in Netflix, Review, Sci-Fi, tagged , , , on April 25, 2008 | No Comments »

There’s some important lessons to be learned from The Blob.

A meteorite crashes on Earth and some hobo out in the woods finds the Jell-O oozing forth from the piping hot space rock. A chain of events ensues where in a little puddle of goo eventually absorbs everything it can, growing larger and larger…
This [...]

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#1429: Willow

Posted in Comedy, Netflix, Review, Sci-Fi, tagged , , on April 13, 2008 | 10 Comments »

Okay, I apologize for the delay; due to Netflix throttling my queue a bit, the postal service blowing and the start of playoff hockey I’ve been delayed a bit in geting these up.
I really enjoyed Willow!   I did, I really did…it’s just - it’s Star Wars but not.
I actually had to go back and look [...]

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#1426: Sunshine

Posted in Netflix, Review, Sci-Fi, tagged , , , , on March 25, 2008 | 8 Comments »

Sunshine is a weird movie in the sense that it feels like a lot of other movies, but it’s not exactly like said movies.

Sometime in the future the sun is dying and a team of the best and brightest are dispatched deep into outer space to pretty much restart the sun.   It takes them [...]

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