Susan Year Itch

Ghost Town: Why not?

Guys! I am so behind. I keep writing for other places and forgetting to post here because, well, it's October and things are happening. I found myself in New York (for those of you who have a map on ...

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Transsiberian: Trip of a lifetime!

Ladies and gentlemen, Transsiberian finally made its way transamerica (whoa, another movie) to Richmond, VA amid accolades and fanfare and a Rotten Tomatoes rating of like 5000. And I could not be mo...

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Tell No One: Begone, cynics!

So I think I have a real problem with expressing emotion. If my mother is reading this right now she is spitting out her warm spiced milk, or whatever moms drink, and smacking her head in disbelief t...

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Tropic Thunder: A sweaty, dirty, ray of sunshine

I've been behind on posting things lately! Writing them but not posting! This is from like a month ago on RVAnews. But it is still filled with passion. I read a folk story once about this guy who was...

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Pineapple Express: Fail

I don't feel like I oscillate too much in my opinion of movies. The five star (with half stars!) rating system works pretty well for me. I find that it offers enough shades of grey to differentiate a ...

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The Dark Knight: It’s a real movie!

Guys, I want to cry when I think about how much Christopher Nolan is giving me hope for the future of filmmaking. No, seriously. The Dark Knight is a real movie! With real editing and acting and a nea...

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Hellboy II: The Golden Zzzz

You have to admit that it's almost not worth me writing a review of anything like Hellboy, a comic book character that I happen to know nothing about but you happen to know everything about....

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Hooked on Classics: A DVD Roundup

I honestly wrote an uppity sentence about how sometimes I have "things to do", "people," and I can't "flit off to the movies every five seconds" just to "compete with Daniel Neman," who gets to do t...

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Wall-E: The future is grim yet gleeful.

Well, I saw Wall-E last night, and I've had 24 hours to mull it over. 24 hours that I've been spending pulling gravel out of my hair from the Virginia Center Commons parking lot, upon which I crumbled...

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The Happening: The trouble with Nighty

I figure if you go to see The Happening, it'll be purely to experience the magic that is M. Night Shamyalan and the pitiful rat king he makes of filmmaking....

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