January 2012
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'Suthern Men' by J.C. Nelson
After leave from a DEA bust gone wrong, Mike Campbell is assigned to act as a mole in a small Texas town family’s life, acting as a body guard for drug peddling head Buck King. As Mike becomes closer with the King family, and a girl named Belle, he finds himself trapped in their downward spiral as he is confronting his own.
Written and Directed by J.C. Nelson
Produced by The Weinstein...
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“The Dude abides.”
– Jeff Bridges as Jeffrey “The Dude” Lebowski in The Big Lebowski by Joel and Ethan Coen.
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Top 5 Video Games of All Time, Part Deux
Resident Evil 2 (1998, PlayStation)
Unlike the WWII shooter franchises I followed from the beginning, when it came to the Resident Evil series I came in second, but I found that sometimes second can beat first. Such is the case with Resident Evil 2, the first survival-horror game I ever played, only to learn later about other genre series like Silent Hill. I played this game at a friends house,...
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Top 5 Video Games of All Time, Part I
I can’t say that video games have played a major part in my life, but I have definitely experienced many games with attached dedicated hours of screen watching (i.e. 100+ hours on Civilization). I always go through “phases” where games become a bigger part of my life by not allowing me to have a life (irony can be a bitch), such a period is occurring now. So I decided to make a...
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“Come doused in mud, soaked in bleach, as I want you to be.”
– Lyric by Kurt Cobain from “Come As You Are” off of the album Nevermind by Nirvana
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WatchStock footage from the snowfall last night in Portland, OR. Shot it with my friends Canon Vixia HF M30. Handy camera, and the video has not been cut or altered.
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“When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ‘no, I went to...”
– Quentin Tarantino
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) review
David Fincher directs the 2011 American version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and not only is it a strikingly visual piece that will make you laugh, cry, cringe, or smile, but it holds its own as an adaptation, separating itself from the 2009 Swedish film as a whole new approach to the material, much like the case with Let The Right One In and Let Me In. Daniel Craig and Christopher Plummer...
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009) review
Noomi Rapace steals the screen as Lisbeth Salander, a 24 year old hacker with a troubled past, who is hired to work for Mikael Blomkvist, a magazine publisher and author, to solve a series of murders. Dark and grimly shot, only to set the mood for this intense, heart pounding, and very well made film. This movie dares to take you on waters that even in the book may have been much, but unlike most...