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Halloween Movie Countdown Day Nine: Underworld (2003)

There is something about the Underworld franchise that appeals to me. Typically, the action horror genre is not my thing, especially one that borrows elements from better movies and throughout its installments has turned out quite a convoluted plot. Yet, these films are so watchable and ones I like to return to from time to time.

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TV Review: Animal Kingdom (1×9) “Judas Kiss”

Animal Kingdom has had its fair number of decent episodes this first season, but none have felt so economically controlled as episode nine, “Judas Kiss.” Every scene had the right amount of momentum to move us seamlessly into the next scene,…

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TV Review: Animal Kingdom (1×6) “Child Care”

Despite my reservations about the Craig/Renn story, it oddly had a nice resolution to it, one that wasn’t cased in melodrama and drawn out; until Renn found out the truth in some contrived way that ended up being convenient for…

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TV Review: ‘Animal Kingdom’ (1×5) “Flesh is Weak”

The first two episodes of Animal Kingdom seemed to set up a major police investigation into the death of a police officer during one of the Codys’ jobs, and subsequent episodes would be filled with the Codys constantly watching their…

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TV Review: ‘Animal Kingdom’ (1×01) “Welcome to the family”

The newest show to catch onto the idea of good-guys-who-do-bad-things is TNT’s Animal Kingdom, based off the 2010 Australian film of the same name (I’ll get to why I don’t think this is a good transition for the material later).…