So while you’re nursing a hangover from the Presidents Day rager you threw, I thought I’d tell you about Stephen Spielberg’s Lincoln. The 16th President had a banner year in 2012 with no less than three movies. I haven't seen the other two more fantastical vampire or zombie hunter versions, but the one based on a true story is quite good (not to say Lincoln didn't fight the undead during his off time).
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So while you’re nursing a hangover from the Presidents Day rager you threw, I thought I’d tell you about Stephen Spielberg’s Lincoln. The 16th President had a banner year in 2012 with no less than three movies. I haven't seen the other two more fantastical vampire or zombie hunter versions, but the one based on a true story is quite good (not to say Lincoln didn't fight the undead during his off time).
I enjoy history and the Civil War is an especially compelling time in American Read more [...] 
I recently watched Georges Franju's Les yeux sans visage (Eyes Without a Face, for the less pretentious of us), and was immediately captivated by the music in the film. Maurice Jarre, the famed composer of the Lawrence of Arabia score, perfectly accentuates the skin-crawliness of this film. There are two main treatments of music in Les yeux: one, a forlorn lullaby, the other, a demented carnival waltz.
The aforementioned lullaby can be heard in the track "Thème Romantique". Jarre flawlessly 
I've really grown weary of comic book adaptations in film in the past couple years. I've already written my thoughts on films like The Dark Knight Rises, but the genre as a whole has started to become stale and predictable, and is so top heavy with the over-bloated Marvel and DC universes which try to tie everything together that truly original and filmic movies like Scott Pilgrim and Kick-Ass* often get overshadowed in the long run.
Based on a "Best Books of 2012" list on LitReactor (a great 
Most exploitation movies are not "good", as in they would not be enjoyed by most of the "normal" population. I'm sure if you looked up all of the exploitation films on imdb.com and averaged all their ratings, you probably would get about an 8.2832 (out of 17, of course). Many people call these movies trash. Shlock. B-movies. A waste of time. Well, any movie that not only keeps my attention for its duration, but also grants me a kind of escapist amusement is all right in my book (I don't actually 
God help us.
In my mind, there should be a level of Hell devoted to movies that are so bad that they have absolutely no redeeming qualities. They're offensive. A Good Day To Die Hard is one of those movies with a big fat exclamation point on the end of it that it would probably wear as a badge of honor. $92 million dollars have been wasted by the American film industry, and all of it probably went straight to the Russians. What the hell were they thinking?
To be fair, I should've known. I didn't