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‘Hansel and Gretel’: Witch Hunters: A Not So Tasty Time at the Movies

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Why, Jeremy Renner? Why? You play Hawkeye in The Avengers, you help out Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, then  you star in this garbage? Come on, man. As one of Hollywood’s most talented actors, you should be picking roles that help your career, not destroy it. Oh well. No use crying over wasted talent. [...]

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Featured Author Week: A look at the new contents of the Deluxe Edition of Inheritance and a possible fifth book

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Christopher Paolini is joining us as a guest this week as Lytherus’ featured author! We’ll be taking a look at Christopher’s recently-released “Inheritance Deluxe Edition”, which features a whole host of new content, including deleted and added scenes, new artwork, and more. Most importantly, the Deluxe Edition features a letter from Jeod detailing life in Alagaesia [...]

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Featured Author Week: Christopher Paolini (INHERITANCE) visits this week!

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The Lytherus featured author weeks are back with a bang! Christopher Paolini, author of the Inheritance cycle, will be joining us this week for reviews, interviews, a guest post, and even some giveaways! The author has been hard at work on news projects coming off of a whirlwind international book tour promoting the release of “Inheritance” [...]

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Movie Review: Mama – A Creepy Ghost, Disturbing Children, and An Equally Disturbing Finale

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Annabel and Lucas are faced with the challenge of raising his young nieces that were left alone in the forest for 5 years…. but how alone were they? (synopsis from IMDB) It looks like Mama has jumped out of the gates and taken the lead among films this weekend. Mama, produced by Guillermo del Toro and starring Jessica [...]

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Movie Throwback: The Collector is Such a Better Movie Than The Collection.

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Desperate to repay his debt to his ex-wife, an ex-con plots a heist at his new employer’s country home, unaware that a second criminal has also targeted the property, and rigged it with a series of deadly traps. (synopsis courtesy of IMDB) Starting off, I have to admit that I didn’t have much in the way [...]

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‘Django Unchained’ is a Crowd Pleasing Period Piece

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Quentin Tarantino ranks as one of the most versatile directors in Hollywood, dabbling in genres, finding the boundaries of those genres, and completely redefining those boundaries. His latest film, Django Unchained, continues this tradition. This spaghetti western/revenge film reinvents a long-revered genre, keeping key elements in place while adding copious amounts of blood and swearing. Did [...]

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Movie Review: The Collection (Not Sure Where We Were Going or Why I Should Care)

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 From the writing-directing team Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton (Saw IV, V,VI and 3D) comes The Collection, a suspense horror film with nonstop thrills at every turn. Directed by Dunstan and starring Josh Stewart (The Dark Knight Rises, The Collector), Emma Fitzpatrick (The Social Network) and Christopher McDonald (“Boardwalk Empire,” Requiem for a Dream), the film centers on a traumatized man forced [...]

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This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don’t Touch It: A Messed Up Little Tale About Spiders Crawling in Your Head.

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From the writer of the cult sensation John Dies at the End comes another terrifying and hilarious tale of almost Armageddon at the hands of two hopeless heroes. *Warning: You may have a huge, invisible spider living in your skull. THIS IS NOT A METAPHOR.* You will dismiss this as ridiculous fearmongering. Dismissing things as tuberculous fearmongering is, [...]

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‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is Painfully Thorough

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  Middle Earth was wonderfully brought to life in Peter Jackson’s acclaimed Lord of the Rings film trilogy, and now, with the release of The Hobbit, audiences have a chance to return to J. R. R.Tolkien’s rich world. Jackson’s latest foray into Middle Earth doesn’t quite match the awe and spectacle of the original trilogy, but for [...]

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Movie Throwback: The Crazies (One of the Few Times Where I Like a Remake More Than the Original)

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In this terrifying glimpse into the “American Dream” gone wrong, an unexplainable phenomenon has taken over the citizens of Ogden Marsh. One by one the townsfolk are falling victim to an unknown toxin and are turning sadistically violent.  People who days ago lived quiet, unremarkable lives are now depraved, blood-thirsty killers. While Sheriff Dutton (Timothy Olyphant) [...]

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