Shannon Heibler
Twister (1996)
This movie rocks. I wish movies like this were still made. Low gore, high excitement, low kill count, high stakes. Jan de Bont, we salute...
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Shannon Heibler
- 4 min
Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
This is my favorite Studio Ghibli film. But you know what's funny? I don't think I could tell you what it's about. I mean, I can tell you...
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Shannon Heibler
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The Favourite (2018)
Ooowheeee I was nervous about this one. I loved it so very much when we saw it in the theater. I knew it was mostly the actors (okay,...
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Shannon Heibler
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Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019)
This was the last film we saw in theaters before the pandemic began in earnest. I had never seen a Fast and/or Furious movie but I knew...
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Shannon Heibler
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X (2022)
If there's a silly pop culture hill I'll die on, it's that 2022 was the best single year for horror films in the history of cinema. And a...
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Shannon Heibler
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Waiting for Guffman (1996)
It feels like this film is thread woven in the tapestry of my life. But I actually came to it a little "late"! I remember the "cool"...
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Shannon Heibler
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Hot Fuzz (2007)
This was my least favorite of the Cornetto Trilogy for the longest time. Then, around the time I started doing theater professionally...
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Shannon Heibler
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Run Lola Run/Lola Rennt (1998)
I vividly remember seeing this for the first time after renting it because so many of my new film loving friends in college loved it. I...
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Shannon Heibler
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Mary Poppins (1964)
I had a lot of feelings going into this one. First and foremost, excitement because this has always been one of my favorite "play in the...
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Shannon Heibler
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The Brothers Bloom (2008)
So I saw this pretty soon after it came out, loved it, bought it on DVD, and never watched it again until this viewing. I know I was...
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Shannon Heibler
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
This movie was verboten in my childhood (with good reason) but by the time I surreptitiously watched it on cable, or bought it...
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Shannon Heibler
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The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (1947)
In the many ways I've let my work on this blog pile up, this is the one I maybe regret the most? Simply because, in very typical Shannon...
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Shannon Heibler
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Vertical Limit (2000)
This movie has everything. Inaccurate depictions (I guess? Who's to say? Not me.) of rock climbing! Billionaires being billionaires!...
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Shannon Heibler
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V for Vendetta (2005)
I must start by confessing that when I saw this in theaters with friends, they came out cheering, and I came out deeply distressed. The...
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Shannon Heibler
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Pleasantville (1998)
I was really worried about revisiting this one. I looooooved it in my 20s and honestly maybe have not watched it at all in my 30s. I knew...
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Shannon Heibler
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Center Stage (2000)
This was Ben's first trip to the ABA (I envy him a little), so let's examine it through his eyes/quotes: (When I was trying to hype the...
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Shannon Heibler
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Birdman (or, the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
I had only seen this movie once, probably when it came out ten(!?) years ago, prior to tonight's viewing. It was an impulse buy because I...
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Shannon Heibler
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Sherlock Holmes (2009)
My god this movie is FUN. Just grade A entertainment. I'm hard pressed to think of a venture made by any single person involved in this...
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Shannon Heibler
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Moulin Rouge! (2001)
Please, when you read this, imagine me as the wrecked shell of Ewan McGregor that starts the film. Bearded, suspendered, drunk(?), and...
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Shannon Heibler
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)
How did this movie get made? It's always popular with the older set to say of "old" movies "you couldn't make this movie today" (usually...
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