Invasion Roswell

For years, the government denied the existence of Area 51, a mysterious area in Nevada rumored to be the site of alien spaceship crash and governmental experiments. It is an area where nobody has been allowed to enter which has fueled many conspiracy theories including alien life and storage of an alien spacecraft, time travels, and weather control. What a place! Finally in 2013 after years of denial, we got confirmation...

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Ghost Shark

 Even though they are highly enjoyable subjects in the film world, sharks are kind of limited if you think about it. Obviously they are confined to water, so the killer sharks are limited to that type of atmosphere. Well Ghost Shark is a Syfy film so you know this is going to be a different type of shark film. Let's just say Ghost Shark is quite different and also entertaining.The movie...

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King Kong (2005)

When you think of famous cinema monsters, King Kong definitely comes to mind. First released in 1933, it was a film very different for the time and it still has an impact now. There was a sequel in 1962 with another Japanese film in 1967. American King Kong films followed in 1976 and 1986. In 2005, young director Peter Jackson after two years of finishing the successful Lord of the Rings trilogy,...

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Children of the Corn

Of all the Stephen King books and films, I find the movie Children of the Corn to be about the most interesting. As a fan of horror movies, I think films with children as villains seem to work for me. Poltergeist and Insidious are two quality horror movies that involve children and families. Village of the Damned was another and this spawned others. Children of the Corn is one of the most interesting...

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Kids

You can look at the film Kids in a lot of different ways. Maybe it's a film for teenagers. Maybe it's a film for adults. Maybe both. Well anyway this film came out in 1995 and never really never got a chance. A difficult film with an uncomfortable subject but that is why it works.Directed by controversial director Larry Clark, Kids from 1995 was originally given an NC-17 rating but was then released...

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Fright Night

I wish I had seen the original Fright Night from 1985. Usually you don't watch a remake until you see the original but with Fright Night it was different for me. This remake of Fright Night is one of the few films that I liked that is aimed towards my (teenage) age group.With the same idea as the original, a teenager finds that his neighbor is a vampire. With many ideas involving teen themes, this turns...

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Hugo

I read the book Hugo in the 5th grade I think but it is only a vague memory. The film adaption is is a different type of kids movie. It is a masterpiece film that does everything the right way and works on every level.The main setting is in a train station in the middle of Paris in 1931. The plot follows the book storyline of how an orphan named Hugo Cabret (Asa Butterfield) finds a...

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