by: Alan Smithee In 1999 The Blair Witch Project seemed to change the face of film. What seemed original back then is now a new film sub-genre: people using hand held cameras to document strange events that happen to them over a course of weeks, months, or years. This scenario is very human. People tell… [Read more…]
October 28, 2011 by Mr. Sheehy
by: Alan Smithee In the 1980s a new horror sub genre was born. “Slasher films” are films where usually teenagers are killed in sometimes creative ways, one by one. The killer usually wears a mask of some kind. “Slasher films” died out somewhat fast, as everyone saw through the films. They weren’t really “art,” more… [Read more…]
October 21, 2011 by Mr. Sheehy
by: Alan Smithee It’s almost Halloween, my favorite holiday. Why is it you ask? Well, for one thing, it’s the only time you can dress up like a fool. On any other day it’s frowned upon. For another thing, candy! You can eat candy all year round, but it isn’t free. You can’t just knock… [Read more…]
October 14, 2011 by Mr. Sheehy
by: Alan Smithee Remember The Warriors? Remember Escape From New York? Those two films saw a lot in each other, they saw so much they went on a date, got a bite to eat, went for a long walk on the beach. Then they went to funky town AND THIS MOVIE WAS BORN! Welcome to… [Read more…]
October 6, 2011 by Mr. Sheehy
by: Alan Smithee Remember world War III? It started in 1988, which was also the year that Manhattan (New York) became one big maximum security prison. It’s a pretty fun prison! It’s surrounded by a 50 foot-tall wall and mines on all bridges. Also, nobody is allowed in the prison, not even guards, because there… [Read more…]
September 29, 2011 by Mr. Sheehy
by: Alan Smithee The year is 1979. The State of Ohio agrees to pay $675,000 to families of the dead and injured in the Kent State shootings. Vietnam and Vietnam-backed Cambodian insurgents announce the fall of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and the collapse of the Pol Pot regime. Oh! And a little film by the name… [Read more…]
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November 4, 2011 by Mr. Sheehy
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