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Monthly Archives: July 2013

Now You See Me; Rating: 2/4

July 30th, 2013 at 2:08 am » Comments (0)

Surprisingly, movies about magic have not been made too often in the history of film. Some recent examples are "The Prestige," "The Illusionist," and "Hugo." Unfortunately, though, these films are ...more »

V/H/S and V/H/S/2; Rating: 3/4

July 23rd, 2013 at 2:29 am » Comments (0)

The style of "found footage" has been around for decades, but was made most popular by the cult hit The Blair Witch Project. This soon led to the Paranormal Activity ...more »

Pacific Rim; Rating: 4/4

July 16th, 2013 at 2:30 am » Comments (0)

I heard somebody describe Pacific Rim as something directly from the mind of a 12-year-old boy playing in his room, holding his dinosaur and robot figurines and bashing them into ...more »

World War Z; Rating: 3/4

July 2nd, 2013 at 1:33 am » Comments (0)

Within the last few years, our continued fascination with zombies has only gotten stronger. First made popular by George A. Romero in The Night of the Living Dead; we have ...more »

Forget the Pact: Short Film

July 1st, 2013 at 2:51 am » Comments (0)

  An independent, short British film directed by Malcolm Benson, Forget the Pact is about a group of friends, who decide one day to make a pact that they will always ...more »