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Monthly Movie Reviews – June, 2009
Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in June. Stats Movies watched – 25 Movies that were new to me –…
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High Sierra and the Evolution of the Doomed Gangster
The “gangster film” is a true American creation. There were of course many early foreign films with elements of “crime” in them (Feuillade’s Les Vampires, or…
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The Lord of the Rings, the lost chapters IV: Impudent Elves
The fantasy fiction community was once again rocked when more previously unreleased sections of The Lord of the Rings were discovered this weekend. This “grail”…
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Archetypical – Part IV – The Herald and the Helper
This is the fourth entry in my fairy tale series. Each entry attempts to analyze one archetypal element of myths legends and fairy tales in…
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Mailbag Monday 1
Hello dear readers! Today you are in for a special treat: the start of a very new www.isleyunruh.com monthly feature! That’s right, the first Monday…
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Monthly Movie Reviews – May, 2009
Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in May. Stats Movies watched – 20 Movies that were new to me –…
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Top Five Most Nonsensical Things About Wolverine
Wolverine really seems like a pretty simple character at first glance. I mean, he can heal really fast and has extendable claws, how complicated can…
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How to make Burritos and Tacos from scratch.
I have to say that Mexican is probably my second favorite food of all time (right after any thai dish featuring basil and garlic as the…
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My Favorite Movies 11 – Nosferatu (Werner Herzog, 1979)
It is astonishing how different Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu: Phantom of the Night is from Murnau’s classic silent horror film considering it is an almost scene for scene remake. To…
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My Favorite Movies 10 – Nosferatu (F. W. Murnau, 1922)
Silent films get a bad rap. Even among film snobs there is the attitude that “yes, they are important, but come on…wouldn’t you rather watch…
