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I always have to stop myself when I say I like “all kinds of music”.  Because, honestly, that just isn’t true, there is really only one kind of music I like.  No, not [just] Black Metal, I’m talking about music […]

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Man do I love heist movies. I'm not talking about wacky romps like the Ocean's 11 movies (though they are fine for what they are), I'm talking about the old school heist movies where EVERYBODY fucking …

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Mailbag Monday 45
February 4, 2013

Hello dear readers, it’s MAILBAG MONDAY again!  On this special day I will search through my mountain of reader mail and answer the five most pressing questions! What’s that you say?  Do I really get that …

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Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in December. Stats Movies watched – 21 Movies that were new to me – 14 1990's films rewatched for the first time since I saw them in …

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