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  • Kevin Hart: Seriously Funny 2010

    Watched 25 May, 2013

    This should be called Kevin Hart: Seriously Misogynistic and Homophobic.

    If you start out ANYTHING with "I'm not..." insert: homophobic, misogynistic, racist, etc, you should just close your mouth instead.

  • Slice and Dice: The Slasher Film Forever 2012

    ★★ Watched 23 May, 2013 3

    Once you have seen a slasher film retrospective with clips from well-known slasher films and interviews with filmmakers, actors, critics, you have kind of seen them all. There is nothing new here, besides maybe a couple new faces left out of most other slasher retrospectives. I don't want to call this a documentary because it is not nearly informative enough and is based solely on how various people define a slasher film.

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  • The Faculty 1998

    ★★★★ Watched 12 May, 2013 17

    Obviously taking inspiration from Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Thing '82, the Robert A. Heinlein novel The Puppetmasters, etc, and adding a 1990s high school spin, The Faculty plays into all the tropes of high school hierarchy and formulaic sci-fi horror...to great success.

    I am not necessarily aware of how or why I have not seen The Faculty until now but as the old phrase goes, better late than never. With a great cast (John Stewart[!], Elijah Wood[!]) and…

  • Prometheus 2012

    ★★★★ Watched 11 Nov, 2012 20

    The ratings of Prometheus are really all over the place, especially from people who have opinions in which I value and respect. There's really nothing I find more intriguing than that, honestly. I think the one thing almost everyone can agree on is that Michael Fassbender as, the film-loving android, David really stole the show. He was the most believable character and he wasn't even supposed to be human. The one character I had the hardest time with was "digesting"…