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Silent Hill – movie review

April 22nd, 2008

Back a few weeks ago when life was too busy for blogging, the horror movie Silent Hill came to the top of my Netflix queue. Until recently, it had been our habit to let Tadpole 2 fall asleep in my lap after bath time. This was guaranteed quiet TV time, as she usually fell asleep [...]

Kate Beckinsale = still hot The werewolf designs were pretty cool, I thought. For a vampire, Selene/Beckinsale sure does breathe a lot. In fact, she didn’t come across very vampiric at all in this movie. Flametoad Score (out of 10): Kung-fu: 7; Gun-fu: 7; Vampire-fu: 6; Werewolf-fu: 8; Naked flesh-fu: 7; Explosion-fu: 8 Composite “guy [...]

Movie Review: Fido

February 12th, 2008

I finally had a chance to finish watching Fido over the weekend. The best summary of this movie I can give is Night of the Living Dead meets Lassie.  I thought it was absolutely brilliant. The paper-thin– a zombie outbreak in an idyllic 1950s (that never was) small-town community–doesn’t stand up to close scrutiny. However, the premise [...]

Midnight Cellar is LIVE

October 16th, 2007

I’ve been mentioning my work on 12 to Midnight’s online store from time to time. I’m proud to announce that, with the help of our new 12 to Midnight team member Brendan, the store is finally open to the public. We put a lot of sweat into making this store special, and we’ll be continuing [...]

Overheard Today in Church

October 7th, 2007

"Mom, does holy water really sting?"

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