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Give Thanks

November 19th, 2009

I’m thankful for terrible holiday-themed movies. I’m also thankful for Netflix’s on-demand service that me stream movies through my Xbox 360 to the TV. I’m thankful that Netflix offers a RSS feed of movies newly added to their on-demand list so I’m always aware of new releases. I’m thankful that all of these things have come [...]

Why Horror?

October 28th, 2009

In the Halloween-themed episode of Castle that just aired, the script writers floated the theory that people who showed a deep fascination with death usually had a triggering, traumatizing event in their past. Since the tv show is about a murder mystery writer, the obvious question was what caused him to be drawn to death. We viewers may not know that [...]

Paranormal – the movie

May 22nd, 2009

It may seem a little odd that a Christian film company is making a horror movie called Paranormal. But really, why should that be odd? Christians are challenged every day to live out our beliefs, so why wouldn’t a juicy horror scenario make compelling backdrop? I mean, I’ve essentially described the plot of The Exorcist, [...]

Happy Belated Birthday, Poe

January 20th, 2009

I’m a few days behind, but even in the midst of this week’s historic event I didn’t want to let a different historic event slip by unnoticed. Monday was the 200th birthday of Edgar Allan Poe. In celebration you could visit some of his final resting place in Baltimore, or at least take a few [...]

Put on Your Dancing Shoes

October 22nd, 2008

Woohoo! Netflix is shipping me Dance of the Dead today! I’ll post a review next week.

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