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  • The Secret Life of Bees

    This is a guest review from Jeffrey Rule. Thanks for the submission!

    Intro:

    This movie is based off of the Sue Monk Kidd book “The Secret Life Of Bees”, which I had read just a couple of months before the movie came out. It is a story of the hard life of a child whose mother is dead and father who shows no love. Lily killed her mother completely by accident when she was little. She is now 14 and has little recollection of her mother. All she remembers of her mother is what T. Ray, her cruel and unloving father, has told her. It seems the only person who loves Lily would be the family servant, Rosaleen. The setting of the movie is right in the center of the civil rights movement in South Carolina.

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  • The Stuff

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    This is a guest review from jdog, aka Jason Beckman. Thanks for the submission Jason!

    Writer/Director: Larry Cohen
    Actors: Micheal Moriarty- David ‘Mo’ Rutherford
              Andrea Marcovicci- Nicole
              Garrett Morris- Chocolate Chip Charlie
              Paul Sarvino- Colonel Malcolm Spears
              Scott Bloom- Jason
    Release date: June 14, 1985
    Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi/Comedy
    Tag Line: Are you eating it… or is it eating you?

    Intro:

    The film I have reviewed is one of my favorites from my youth. This is a super fun movie for fans of 80’s camp and cheese, and can even be considered a cult favorite by some.
    Sure, this movie maybe doesn’t stand up as well as some movies from the 80’s, and the effects are a little dated, but I still feel that this movie delivers on many levels and is a must see for all horror fans and fans of the 80’s cheese flick.

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  • Twilight

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    Guest Reviewer Brandon Carter submitted his take on the box office power and current hit Twilight. Thanks for the submission Brandon!

    I went into this movie with huge expectations. As a fan of the Twilight series, I had read in numerous reviews that it was very true to the books, and that that was a defining part of the movie. Unfortunately, that didn’t prove very true.

    In fact, I found the accuracy compared to the book was unparalleled in disaster. Even the Harry Potter movies aren’t this bad. Fabricated events don’t happen in HP, and neither does the changing of character’s personalities.

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