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13 Days of Halloween: Day 12.75 – Ashe Collins on The Return of the Living Dead (1985)

October 30, 2014
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Title: The Return of the Living Dead (1985) Director: Dan O’Bannon Runtime: 91 minutes — I know I’ve said this on twitter, and I’ll repeat it again here: The Return of the Living Dead is one of the best horror-based comedy films out there. It’s not a film you want to take seriously at all. While…

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13 Days of Halloween: Day 10 – Ashe Collins on the A Nightmare on Elm Street Series

October 28, 2014
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A Cinefessions Series Review is a periodic column that sees one or more writers watching and reviewing an entire film series. Cinefessions considers any film franchise that has two or more films a series, and thus available for review in this column. This is a way to get a quick look at an entire collection…

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13 Days of Halloween: Day 8.5 – Ashe Collins on Exhumed (2011)

October 26, 2014
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Title: Exhumed (2011) Director: Richard Griffin Runtime: 93 minutes — Exhumed is a hard film to nail down. The acting seems off and stilted, with only one of the characters coming across as natural, at least the first time, before you realize what’s going on. But, even on a second viewing it’s hard to warm up…

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13 Days of Halloween: Day 3 – Ashe Collins on Crystal Lake Memories (2013)

October 21, 2014
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Title: Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th (2013) Director: Daniel Farrands Runtime: 400 minutes — Chris actually picked Crystal Lake Memories for me to stonewall my efforts in this past year’s Cinefessions Summer Screams Challenge. The idea was that I would spend over six hours of time earning one measly point. …

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A Lifetime of Film: Ashe’s Top Ten from 1990

September 16, 2014
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A Lifetime of Film covers one specific year of a Cinefessions’ writers existence, from birth to now, and goes over their top ten films from that year. It stems from a meme on Letterboxd, and is simply being expanded upon here. This week, Ashe covers 1990. I was just 13 in 1990, turning into that teenage geek…

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The Cinefessions Podcast – Episode 07 – Neil Marshall Retrospective

September 2, 2014
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Welcome back to The Cinefessions Podcast! This month, Chris, Ashe, and Branden take on the entire filmography of English writer/director Neil Marshall. On the docket today is his debut feature, Dog Soldiers (2002), followed by the horror hit The Descent (2005). The post-apocalyptic thriller Doomsday (2008) is next, and we finish it off with a look at (the “and now for…

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Movie Review – Ashe Collins on Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

August 6, 2014
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Title: Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) Director: James Gunn Runtime: 121 minutes — I honestly know next to nothing about this portion of the Marvel comic universe. I’m more into X-Men and have a vague idea about the Avengers and Spider-Man. I have seen them head off and deal with different space issues before, but…

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