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[DVD Review] Train
3 December 2009 8:25 PM, PST
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Of all the possible reactions that one could have to a film (or album, or television show), there’s probably nothing worse than having it make you wonder if something you like was even good in the first place. For a long time, I have defended the Hostel series, arguing that it has a great deal more subtext than most critics give it credit for, and that its tonal inconsistencies are actually quite deliberate pieces of black humor on the part of director Eli Roth. Now I am confronted with Train, a film that is so similar in plot and theme that I can’t really argue that anything said in Hostel isn’t said here. Except that I really like Hostel, and Train totally sucks.
Traveling through Eastern Europe with her college wrestling team, Alex (Thora Birch) goes out one night with her friends after a humiliating defeat at
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The Alamo Guide for November 20th!
19 November 2009 7:13 PM, PST
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The Alamo Guide
for November 19th, 2009
It’s totally fall, you guys! I know this, because my allergies have exploded with this cold front, it was 40 something degrees last night, And I Get To Eat Turkey Next Thursday! Oh so much turkey will I eat! With extra dressing and gravy. I will be doing this with my biological family, which, if you consider the other options we have at the Alamo, actually sounds pretty boring. While I’ll be way too full falling asleep staring at the football game that I don’t really care about on my grandparents couch, You can be way too full, falling asleep, staring at the Ut vs A&M football game that you probably Do care about at the Alamo Ritz! Or you can be watching any movie at any of our theaters, because our annual tradition still stands. We’ll be your second
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[DVD Review] The Gate: Monstrous Special Edition
6 October 2009 2:26 PM, PDT
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Oh, to be an adolescent in the mid-1980s. I was only learning to walk at the time, but if nostalgia for something I really wasn’t present for (I’m looking at you, my entire generation) and movies I didn’t see in their original release have taught me anything, it’s that there has never been any finer time to be alive. Nearly all actions were accompanied by a score that sounds as if it’s coming out of a midi file, completely ridiculous pieces of logic go totally unscathed, and you could frequently find yourself battling monsters and demons for no other reason than that they were there (and defeat them; don’t forget that part). With all of that being the case, one would think that The Gate would be awesome, but it’s not. It takes pretty much all of the aforementioned elements and tries
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