Simon Pegg
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Netflix Notes – ‘Night of the Living Ed’ Edition
True confessions time.
I’ve never seen The Godfather. Not I. Not II. I did see a little of Part III and what I saw, I REALLY liked. (Hey, where’d that horse head come from?)
Seriously though, Ed Humphries, the dude who toiled away for a number of years as the UMASS Daily Collegian’s Siskel (we already had an Ebert) has never seen The Godfather. Same goes for The Natural. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Citizen Kain. Chinatown and Casablanca.
I did see They Live five times in the theater, however.
That Godfather revelation came up in casual conversation with Mookie a few weeks back when I told him that I had recently restarted my Netflix account after a several year hiatus. Coincidentally, The Boston Globe ran a story Sunday where their resident film critic, Wesley Morris, admitt... Continue reading »
The Best Movie You’ve Never Seen – ‘Hot Fuzz’
Once upon a time, I used to write traditional film reviews. It first began in High School where I hadn’t one shred of a clue of how to inform you which movies to see and which to skip. Rather than enter into intelligent discourse on the merits of the film in question, I would just run a moment by moment play-by-play description of the entire film.
“And then Forrest Whitaker asks the Irish dude to help him take a leak. And then the Irish dude inadvertently lets Whitaker escape. And then Whitaker runs into the street and gets flattened by a truck. And then the Irish dude tracks down Whitaker’s sugar momma, played by the smoking hot Jaye Davidson, at her London flat and begins to romance her himself. And then trou is dropped and Jaye sports a Johnson. And then, oh my god, that chick’s a dude. Oh, the horror. The horror.”
When I ambled m... Continue reading »
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