This is the second of three Darren Aronofksy fims that I've watched while trying to clear out my Netflix DVD queue (the others are The Wrestler, which I watched a while back, and Black Swan, which I have yet to see), and I'm probably not the only person who first found out who he is …
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Some More Quickie Movie Reviews
I've been trying to get some movies off my list while slammed with work lately, which hasn't been easy. Granted, if I could get off my ass and watch said movies while on the treadmill in the basement, I'd get this list knocked out more quickly. At any rate, much like my post back in …
There’s Something Wrong With Aunt Diane
In 2009, 36-year-old Diane Schuler drove the wrong way on the Teconic Parkway in Upstate New York and ultimately collided head-on with an SUV. She, her daughter, her three nieces, and three people in the SUV were killed in the crash. The accident made headlines, especially after it was revealed that a postmortem toxicology test …
The Sweet Hereafter
Another movie off of my Netflix DVD queue and another movie I don't remember adding to it in the first place or why. Perhaps it was mentioned in an AV Club post or by somebody on YouTube. At any rate Amazon had The Sweet Hereafter available for streaming on Prime, so I sat down and …
Indian Summer
I have a soft spot in my heart for reunion flicks. This isn't recent, by the way. Even as far back as my early twenties, when Grosse Pointe Blank and Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion came out, I loved any chance to watch a solid cast get together and pretend like they'd known one …
Jersey Guy
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 …
Testament
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 …
The Invitation
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 …
Transformers: The Movie
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 …
Quickie Movie Reviews
I've watched so many movies in the last few weeks of my summer break that I'm having problems keeping track of them all and I'm also having trouble keeping up with my mandate to review what I've been watching. So I decided that I'd do a post with quickie movie reviews. If I own the …
The Uncollecting 