kahmelb | July 4, 2009
Oh, bring back The Lost Boys. Please. I know it wasn’t exactly a Nosferatu level great vampire movie, and I know it was all 80s and stuff, but right now I really need it. Keifer Sutherland when he was young(er) and thinner, sporting a couple of fangs and a really cool attitude. Jason Patric when [...]
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Tags: gothic fiction, horror movies, Twilight, vampire
kahmelb | June 30, 2009
In my life, I’ve seen Optimus Prime die twice.
The first time was unexpectedly sad. I was about thirteen when the first Transformers movie came out and I’m not talking either big budget Michael Bay bit of explosion-porn. I’m talking the original, late 80s animated movie, back when the cartoon I grew up with was still [...]
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Tags: film, movies, review, Transformers
kahmelb | May 3, 2009
I watched Die Hard 4 the other day. Yes, I know, don’t blame me, it’s not like I chose the flick. The 12 year old part-time resident of the household left it lying about and his father caught sight of it before I could hide it under the couch.
I believe the full title was [...]
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Tags: action movies, bad movies, bruce campbell, bruce willis, die hard, escape from new york, kurt russell, movies, snake plissken
kahmelb | April 30, 2009
One of the girl friends and I went to perve on Johnny Depp a while back. Well, that was how she put it and ordinarily it would be the case had we chosen one of the more perve-friendly Depp flicks such as, you know, Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Johnny Depp’s Chest, or something along [...]
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Tags: American literature, drug culture, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, film review, gonzo journalism, Hunter S. Thompson, Johnny Depp, Terry Gilliam
kahmelb | March 14, 2009
Here’s where I reveal my uber-geek credentials.
Just in case you hadn’t noticed, you know, like maybe you’ve been living in the bowels of an Amazonian cave with a long lost tribe of media-shy natives who considered the stone-tablet to be catering to the lowest common denominator, they released the Watchmen movie the other day. Just [...]
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Tags: adaptations, Alan Moore, books, comic books, Dave Gibbons, film adaptations, graphic novels, movies, novels, superheroes, Watchmen