Is it embarrassing to say that I only saw this movie because one of the actress in it was one of my first "celebrity crushes"? Some explanation, I guess.  I started watching Degrassi Junior High when I was in fifth grade and kept up with it almost to the end--when WNET 13 moved the show …

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I turned six years old in 1983 and my parents did a pretty good job at sheltering me from the violence of the real world.  All I knew from violence was Star Wars and the cartoons that I was watching before and after school.  I had no idea that in the early 1980s, America was …

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So this was a movie that I'd had in the queue for a couple of years because I'd seen a trailer for it on IMDb (as you do) and it looked like a good, creepy horror movie.  The premise is that Will (Logan-Marshall Green) and his new girlfriend Kira (Emayatzy Corinealdi) are invited to a …

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Does my '80s kid card get revoked if I tell you that I honestly cannot remember when I first saw this movie? I'm serious.  This film came out on August 8, 1986 and I know I did not see it in the theater on opening weekend (more than likely, we were doing something centered around …

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I'd been avoiding this film for a while. Mind you, it wasn't deliberate at first.  I believe that when this came out, I had intended to see it in the theater but life got in the way of such things and I never got the chance.  I figured I'd wait for it to come out …

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A found footage monster movie that had a big budget when some of the more notable found footage flicks are filmed on a low budget, Cloverfield is a 2008 film that takes the familiar premise of a monster attacking a city (a la Godzilla) and tells it from the point of view of a group …

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