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• Oscar Got It Wrong!: Best Actor 1930-1931

  

  The Contenders: Richard Dix: Cimarron Lionel Barrymore: A Free Soul (winner) Adolphe Menjou: The Front Page Fredric March: The Royal Family of Broadway Jackie... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Ten Days of Terror!: Curtains

  

  Film: CurtainsFormat: Streaming video from Amazon Prime on the new internet machine. There are specific rules for slasher movies, or at least specific things... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Ten Days of Terror!: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

  

  Films: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Format: DVD from LaSalle Public Library through interlibrary loan on The New Portable. Everyone has holes in his or her viewing... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Ten Days of Terror!: The Raven (1963)

  

  Films: The Raven (1963) Format: DVD from DeKalb Public Library on The New Portable. I said not that long ago that horror comedies aren’t that difficult, or at... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Ten Days of Terror!: Dracula (1979)

  

  Films: Dracula (1979) Format: DVD from Moline Public Library through interlibrary loan on The New Portable. Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula is almost certainly one... Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Ten Days of Terror!: Invaders from Mars

  

  Films: Invaders from Mars Format: DVD from Peotone Public Library through interlibrary loan on The New Portable. There’s a part of me that loves 1950s science... Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Ten Days of Terror!: Student Bodies

  

  Films: Student Bodies Format: DVD from LaSalle Public Library through interlibrary loan on rockin’ flatscreen. When I look at a film like Student Bodies, I thin... Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Ten Days of Terror!: The Plague of the Zombies

  

  Films: The Plague of the Zombies Format: Turner Classic Movies on rockin’ flatscreen. There’s something rather charming about Hammer horror films. Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Ten Days of Terror!: Body Snatchers

  

  Films: Body Snatchers Format: DVD from Cordova District Library through interlibrary loan on The New Portable. One of the first movies that I can think of that... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Ten Days of Terror!: A Cat in the Brain (Un Gatto El Cervello)

  

  Films: A Cat in the Brain (Un Gatto el Cervello) Format: Streaming video from Kanopy on the new internet machine. Lewis Black used to do a bit about candy corn. Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Ten Days of Terror!: Shivers

  

  Film: ShiversFormat: Internet video on the new internet machine. I have seen a surprising number of David Cronenberg’s films without really going out of my way... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Ten Days of Terror!: Lovely Molly

  

  Film: Lovely Molly Format: DVD from Putnam County Public Library through interlibrary loan on The New Portable. Sometimes I don’t know how to start a review. Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Ten Days of Terror!: Piranha (2010)

  

  Film: Piranha (2010) Format: DVD from Sycamore Public Library on The New Portable. The success of Jaws caused a lot of copycat films in the years that followed. Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Ten Days of Terror!: Island of Lost Souls

  

  Films: Island of Lost SoulsFormat: DVD from DeKalb Public Library on laptop. There are some classic stories that continue to be made and remade over and over... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Ten Days of Terror! (Late Start)

  

  So I've been busy with a few things over the last couple of weeks and completely forgot that today would be normally the start of my ten days of horror movie... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Oscar Got It Wrong!: Best Director 1962

  

  The Contenders: Frank Perry: David and Lisa Pietro Germi: Divorce, Italian Style David Lean: Lawrence of Arabia (winner) Arthur Penn: The Miracle Worker Robert... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Oscar Got It Wrong!: Best Original Screenplay 2004

  

  The Contenders: The Aviator The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (winner) Hotel Rwanda The Incredibles Vera Drake What’s Missing Surprise, surprise, but I... Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Wednesday Horror: Eight-Legged Freaks

  

  Film: Eight Legged Freaks Format: DVD from Rockford Public Library on The New Portable. I don’t like spiders. I mean, I understand that spiders are useful and... Read more

  Posted on 17 October 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Oscar Got It Wrong!: Best Adapted Screenplay 1988

  

  The Contenders: The Accidental Tourist Dangerous Liaisons (winner) Gorillas in the Mist Little Dorrit The Unbearable Lightness of Being What’s Missing 1988 is... Read more

  Posted on 15 October 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Off Script: The Taking of Deborah Logan/The Taking

  

  Film: The Taking of Deborah Logan (The Taking)Format: DVD from Rockford Public Library on laptop. I don’t know why it was so difficult for me to find The... Read more

  Posted on 14 October 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES