Tweet by Dave Umbricht “You have chosen….poorly.” It happens when you are a completest. No matter what list of movies you attempt to finish, there will be some films that do not resonate. In the best of times, even if you don’t “like” a movie, you can appreciate it for historical significance at the very least. Alas, last month’s selection,…
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Great Movies Film Club: Veronika Voss (1982)
Tweet By Dave Umbricht Welcome to month two of the club. I don’t know about you, but I was jonesing for another fix of great cinema after watching Yojimbo in June. We may have to do this twice a month. But for now, let’s focus on July’s movie. Share
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Great Movies Film Club: Yojimbo Talkback
Tweet by Dave Umbricht Welcome back to our lovely adventure. I hope you enjoyed Yojimbo. If you have not had a chance to watch it yet, stop reading, go to your local video store/library/Hulu Plus, watch, ruminate, and return. This is your area to freely discuss every lit morsel of Akira Kurosawa’s classic without worry about spoiling it for the…
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Great Movies Film Club: Yojimbo (1961)
Tweet by Dave Umbricht Choosing the first film for this club is an embarrassment of riches. I mean, go back and look at that list. You can not go wrong. So without further ado, the first great film is Yojimbo. Why Yojimbo? Samurais and violence and well, yeah, that sounds like the perfect film for the degenerates of Forgotten Flix.…
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Join the Great Movies Film Club!
Tweet by Dave Umbricht There is a void in the world since Roger Ebert’s passing last month. One of the great film fans and the world’s most famous critic is gone. Roger Ebert amazingly transcended media. He started in newspaper, evolved to television, and embraced the internet. It was that last phase when he touched so many, interacting with his…
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The Quizmaster Presents: Movie Frankenstein – Horror Edition
Tweet by Dave Umbricht We are just a week away from the big day. My kids picked out their costumes a few weeks ago. My five year old daughter – Batgirl (she liked the black leather boots), my two year old son – Nemo (not really current, but the kid loves Finding Nemo. Actually, who am I kidding, it is…
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The Quizmaster Presents – The Horror Personality Test Answer Key
Tweet by Dave Umbricht (aka The Quizmaster) The image of the “Horror Icons” is provided courtesy of Kevin Spencer. Check out more of his amazing movie-related and genre art, by clicking on the image or going to inkspatters.com! You all are a very scary lot. I say this with the utmost pride (and before I’ve even assigned a score to your…
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The Quizmaster Presents: The Horror Personality Test
Tweet by Dave Umbricht Ten years ago or so I enlisted the help of a career counselor to determine what I should do with my life. She provided personality tests and skills tests and enough multiple choice questions to give you a headache. After many hours, hundred of questions, and perhaps, too many dollars, the coach gave me the answer. …
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The Quizmaster Presents: I Could Make A Better Horror Movie!
Tweet by Dave Umbricht Or you could make it worse. We often think we could make a better movie than the one we just watched. We would cast it differently, change some plot detail, or direct it better than the hack that did. Here’s you chance. Change an element of each (or any) of the following movies to make it…
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The Quizmaster Presents . . . Say What?
Tweet by Dave Umbricht (A.K.A. The Quizmaster) Movie fans (a polite euphemism for movie geek) possess their own unique trivia wheelhouses. Mine? I have always had a pretty good knack for knowing the year a movie was released (although, like most trivial knowledge, this skill has been rendered irrelevant with the advent of IMDB). One trivia niche I have always…
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The Quizmaster Presents . . . Movie Frankenstein
Tweet by Dave Umbricht How does one spell evil laughter? Is it muhahahaha? Muahahahahaaaha? Cue Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor. After months of linking together actors and actresses, it is time for a new adventure. Each week we will play a new game (and will replay your favorites – please give feedback when you particularly like or loathe…
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Six Degrees Summer Movie Tourney – And the winner is ……
Tweet by Dave Umbricht And so we have come to the end of this adventure. No preamble, let’s get to the results. Here are the final two entries: Entry 1: Morgan Freeman (who we’ve already established is God) was in the South Africa based INVICTUS with Matt Damon, who travelled to London in OCEAN’S 13 (which I actually love, despite my comments on OCEAN’S 12).…
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Six Degrees Summer Movie Tourney – The Final Challenge
Tweet by Dave Umbricht It all comes down to this. One week for the championship. With every subsequent week, the challenges have become more difficult, and the players have stepped up to meet them. Last week’s was open ended, I knew it would be intriguing to see what you could come up with. There were good entries, and then there…
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Six Degrees Movie Game Summer Tourney – The Penultimate Challenge
Tweet by Dave Umbricht After last week’s challenge, perhaps you should fear next week’s Ultimate Challenge to decide it all. But before we can get there, we need to get through the next to last challenge. However, let us not get ahead of ourselves. First the recap. The leaderboard going into last week was: Daniel 4, Zach 2, Mags 2,…
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Six Degrees Summer Movie Tourney – Three for the Road
Tweet by Dave Umbricht That’s right gang, only three weeks left until our champion is crowned. To entice you a bit more, I got my hands on the prize you’re all playing for, and it’s a good one. So, let’s make this quick, because this week is going to be a tough one. Double points are at stake and creativity…
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Two Friends Talkin’ Movies – Tokyo Story
Tweet Nathan My double-shot of Ozu in one week was well worth the time. I watched Tokyo Story (1953) last week, and as you know, we screened Late Spring (1949) as part of our TPR Cinema Tuesdays series. If I had to immediately pick one above the other, I think I’d say I like Tokyo Story more. We often hear…
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Six Degrees Summer Tourney Week 8
Tweet by Dave Umbricht Four more tries gang (including today)! Does this mean you are out of it? Absolutely not. Even if you have never played this summer, there is still time. You see, 4 x 1pt for each win would mean you could have a maximum score of 4 going forward. And you are saying to yourself, “well, someone…
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Six Degrees Summer Tournament – Week 7
Tweet This past week I was going to be sweet. I was going to give all of you a little insight into how I would score the William Katt link. I was going to tell you that using the Roland Emmerich “Godzilla” would not be looked upon kindly. But alas, I didn’t, so one poor soul did use it. However,…
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Six Degrees Summer Tournament – Week 6
Tweet by Dave Umbricht Interesting week, folks. First, the trash talk of Mags and Daniel spilled over to Twitter. Then, they each threw some tough punches at the game (and at each other). And for part of the week, it looked like Mags would finally make it onto the leaderboard. But then, as they were rolling around in the mud,…
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Two Friends Talkin’ Movies: Gojira (1954)
Tweet by Dave Umbricht and Nathan Cone Dave Gojira, Gojira, Gojira, Gojira, Gojira Want to start? Nathan STOMP! STOMP! STOMP! Of course I selected Gojira because our last review was all about a giant lizard attacking a major metropolis. Like many kids, I grew up with the Godzilla movie series, including such memorable (ahem) films as Mothra vs. Godzilla, Son of Godzilla,…
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Six Degrees Summer Tourney Week #5
Tweet by Dave Umbricht This week was a little light on entries, in fact we just had two. But the two that entered seem to have a little rivalry going. Mags vs. Daniel. As Mags said, “I can’t lose to Daniel, we went to University together.” While the committee would love to help Mags out, she needs to earn it.…
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Six Degrees Summer Tourney Week #4
Tweet by Dave Umbricht Now that’s more like it. After getting beat down by y’all, the quizmaster came back and decided to be mean. Sure it was Ingmar Bergman’s birthday last week, but it still wasn’t nice to make you link Ice Cube and Vin Diesel to him. But one intrepid soul actually did, giving us our first repeat winner.…
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Two Friends Talking Movies: Q the Winged Serpent (1982)
Tweet by Dave Umbricht and Nathan Cone After a bit of a hiatus, we are back. Logistical issues delayed us. Who would have thought it would be difficult to obtain a copy of a B-movie about a flying lizard? Anyways, here we go. Nathan: Want me to give you an opening salvo, or would you like to begin? Dave: Go…
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Six Degrees Summer Tourney Week 3
Tweet by Dave Umbricht So a funny thing happened on the way to the promised land, the quizmaster got smacked down. Many great entries this week, but there was one that won it quite easily. Actually it was two. So yes, a tie. So as Daniel said: Alan Alda was in Everyone Says I Love You with Drew Barrymore, who was in Everyone…
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Six Degrees Summer Tourney – Week 2
Tweet by Dave Umbricht We live in a world where everyone is given a gold star, a trophy, or just a “good job little buddy, thanks for playing.” Participation is good, and this week we had four brave souls enter the game. However, in this little world of Forgotten Flix, there are winners and there are losers. And so week…
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