You thought it wasn’t possible, but Dustin manages to fit in yet another Holiday classic. New Year’s Evil!

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Remember your New Year's? It was almost three weeks, ago, I know. I had meant to watch this back then, but... So, Netflix angers me from time to time. It usually happens when I plan out movie schedules for myself. I do this so I'm never searching for something when I'm ready to watch. Yeah, I'm so awesome. Anyhoo, I have been planning to watch New Year's Evil ever since I saw it was available on Netflix streaming back in October. I knew it would take me a few days to watch (that's just how Read more [...]

Jake Likes Zero Dark Thirty and Goes On A Short Feminist Rant

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"Kathryn Bigelow is a female director who makes "male" movies. Just look at Point Break or The Hurt Locker". Nearly every review I've ever read about Ms. Bigelow either starts like this or mentions it at some point. This is very confusing to me. There are literally hundreds of male directors who make "female" movies every week, but no one ever feels the need to mention the gender of the director in a short review. Garry Marshall has made a career out of so-called "chick flicks" (ie Princess Diaries, Read more [...]

The Post “Best of” Movie Dump: The Rest of 2012

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For me, Christmas is a great time to ask for all of the movies that you might not always buy yourself, and if it wasn’t for you getting them as a present, then you might not see them at all. This last Christmas, I made it a point to squander other peoples’ best of the year lists to see what I might have missed out on, and the result was that I found a couple of gems that might have been overlooked by the general public. I’ve already watched most of them, so I thought I’d throw a little bit Read more [...]

Cinematic Attic’s Top 12 Movies of 2012

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We've been talking about it for the last week, and now it's finally time to lay our cards on the table. Here is our list--Click on the titles in green to go to our reviews of each movie. Enjoy! CINEMATIC ATTIC'S TOP 12 MOVIES OF 2012: 1) Moonrise Kingdom 2) Django Unchained 3) Prometheus 4) Dark Knight Rises 5) The Avengers 6) Cloud Atlas 7) Looper 8) Cabin in the Woods 9) Frankenweenie 10) ParaNorman 11) The Hobbit (2) 12) Skyfall Now, a few notes about the way we figured Read more [...]

Top 12 of 2012: For Your Consideration: “Moonrise Kingdom” (By Mike2D2)

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Good evening, ladies and gentlemen! Today we're going to continue our look back at 2012--it certainly had a lot of good movies, didn't it? Tonight we'll have a review of a movie that made basically all of our editors' lists, and it will be the first post by our writer Mike2D2! The article was originally just a series of beeps, blips, and whistles, but fortunately our protocol droid was able to convert it into Standard English (a Bocce translation will follow soon). Enjoy! For Your Consideration: Read more [...]

Top 12 of 2012: “Cloud Atlas” (“Co-Review” by the Sitzchowski Brothers)

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Good evening! We're back today with an admittedly enormous post to continue our 2012 review. It's so long that it even has two authors, who both took on new identities; Now Ryan and Paul are calling themselves the Sitzchowski Brothers in homage to the Wachowskis, the sibling pair who co-directed Cloud Atlas (along with director Tom Tykwer... but unless we can convince Jake to play "Tom Jykewer," then we'll just have one author fewer than the movie has directors). We'll begin with Paul's argument Read more [...]