Susan Year Itch

This land was your land

Let's be thankful that Native Americans let us romanticize them on the silver screen! But let's have the grace to be ashamed of it as well!...

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Paranormal Activity: Time-release horror

A review in two parts! ...

3.5 stars | 2 Comments »

And THIS kind of fear never goes away

Justin Morgan, Scott Burton, and I collaborated on a scary movie guide for RVANews. Scott's got some great suggestions (as usual) and Justin upstages me (as usual). ...

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The Invention of Lying: This review does not lie

This movie filled me with hope. Yeah, HOPE! From a romantic comedy!...

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The Invention of Lying and my return to RVANews

I'm back on RVANews! And back on Twitter! Except I never was on Twitter to begin with!...

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A Brief History of Violence: Inglourious Basterds, District 9, and a show that makes me delightfully ill

In the last month or so, I have seen two bloody, gory, sickeningly violent movies, one of which I loved and one of which I hated. Then later I made a solemn vow which came back to bite me in the ass. ...

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Back in the saddle: Drag Me to Hell, Away We Go, Public Enemies, and other stuff I’ve been up to

I'm back into movies! ...

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Sunshine Cleaning: Learning about ourselves, pathogens, and each other.

Holley's put together a pretty standard, no-frills, "my life hasn't quite turned out like I'd like it to be," boutique flick. It's at times charming and at times distressing, like The Savages, only re...

3.5 stars | 3 Comments »

In Bruges: We had a beautiful moment, Colin, don’t ruin it.

All my pals responded with enthusiastic yawns when I said I had In Bruges at home from Netflix, so I put it off for like a month. What a dumb month that was. What was I doing all that time, playing Ze...

4 stars | 1 Comment »