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I'm mostly posting reviews on my blog these days. I'll post the links here. In fact, there are a raft of new links to my blog here, so enjoy, and by all means, comment if you're a reader. The nice thing about blogs is that they're more prone to dialogue than this stand-alone site ever was.

As always, Horror movies remain the watchword of the day. The maturation of the DVD marketplace is making tons of previously rare material available for a pittance. These are good times to be a fan of movies of all stripes, regardless of the relative weakness of the theatrical product. There's good stuff out there in the world at large, but the business model of late capitalist media has a vested interest in keeping it out of sight. Fortunately, the internet makes this practically impossible. As we come to the end of the "aughts," it's clearer to me now more than ever that the last twelve years (as I write this) have been one of the horror genre's golden ages.

In any event, here are the latest reviews that I've posted:


The 2011 October Horror Movie Challenge

Sucker Punch: Everything is awesome but nothing is good

Scream 4: A stab in the dark

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2011): Lights out

Certified Copy: Is it real or is it...

Friends with Benefits: With friends like these...

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011): Out in the cold

The Adventures of Tintin: Not a dog

Mission: Impossible--Ghost Protocol: Should you choose to accept it...

Take Shelter: It's just a shot away...

Margin Call: Do the collapse

Fright Night (2011): Vampire redux

Young Adult: Arrested adolescence

Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows: A final problem

Hugo: We'll always have Paris

Jane Eyre (2011): Return of the repressed

We Are the Night: Lost girls

Silent Souls: One whose name was writ in water

Martha Marcy May Marlene: Cult movie

The Rise of the Planet of the Apes: Monkey see, monkey do

Kiss Me, Deadly: Atomic noir

Another Earth: Mirror in the sky, what is love?

Cell 211: There's a Riot Goin' On

Souce Code: Strangers on a train

The Skin That I Live In: Skin flick

Billion Dollar Brain: Brain Drain

The Stranger (1946): Cuckoo clocks

Anne of the Thousand Days: More church and state.

Leave Her To Heaven: Why this is hell, nor am I out of it.

Green Snake: Snakes and ladders

The Hazing: A roulette throwback

Limitless: Poor superman

Scarlet Street: Bitch's brew

Hanna: A small assassin

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides: Ebb tide

Citizen Kane: It can't be love, for there is no true love

Raw Deal (1948): Out of time

Troll Hunter: They might be giants

Felidae: The cat's in the bag and the bag's in the river

The Tree of Life: Ex Cathedra

Fear(s) of the Dark: Design for dying

The Pack: Come and get it

The Dead: Things fall apart

Attack the Block: Block party

The Woman: Women and men

Blood Moon: "One of us! One of us!"

The Devil Rides Out: The devil, you say?