http://filmandcinemapuritans.today.com Just another Today.com weblog Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:29:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I saw a film that bought me back to the age where horror movies had mood, intention and atmosphere, instead of violence, gore and just plain stupidity. I'm talking about Ti West's historically accurate horror film, where he takes some of the best elements from the 1970's and 1980's and ... http://filmandcinemapuritans.today.com/2009/11/20/house-of-the-devil/ MAJOR SPOLIERS about this film so if you want to see this film stop reading this blog. CAPTIVITY -In a word, STUPIDITY, should have been the title. Elisa Cuthbert(tv's 24) gets kidnapped by a demented killer. He traps her in a room and gives her a few tests to test her ... http://filmandcinemapuritans.today.com/2009/10/28/captivity/ Does this film live up to the hype? For what it is, not really.  I actually LIKED the film, but I don't find this to be the scarriest film of all time, however I want to see another viewing of it as the movie theater I was in had dimwitted ... http://filmandcinemapuritans.today.com/2009/10/20/paranormal-activity/ I'm not going to be a geek, I promise. I didn't care for the new Hugh Jackman vehicle WOLVERINE. Being a comic book kid since I was a kid, I knew the origin of Wolverine and it did not go back to the civil war time. My question is that ... http://filmandcinemapuritans.today.com/2009/10/05/wolverine/ I can't believe I finally made it to my 200th post. I just want to thank all my loyal readers. Now on to Roman Polanski, the famous director was finally arrested yesterday for an incident that happened in 1977. The director was found guility of sexually abusing a girl 32 years ... http://filmandcinemapuritans.today.com/2009/09/29/my-200th-post-roman-polanski/ Just when I  decided to give up on movies and this blog all together I went to the movies last night. It was a late night decision but I'm a big Dennis Quaid fan and the trailer for PANDORUM peaked my interest. This film is the reason why going to the ... http://filmandcinemapuritans.today.com/2009/09/27/pandorum/ THE BELIEVERS in a 1987 thriller, based on the book by Nicholas Conde(actually called THE RELIGION), and the film stars Martin Sheen, Jimmy Smits, Harris Yulin, Helen Shaver and Richard Massur. When I was a kid I saw the trailer to this film and it scared the hell out of ... http://filmandcinemapuritans.today.com/2009/09/14/the-believers/ Im back its just been awhile. I just want to give my feelings to the 3000 plus people who perished eight years ago on september 11, I will never forget. And I am now going to be blogging a bit more this month about movies. I've seen a lot of ... http://filmandcinemapuritans.today.com/2009/09/13/september/ HI Its Carl, I apoligize for not blogging as often as I used to, however family and employment commitments permit me from having any free time. My goal for september is to break the 200 so stay tuned when film and cinema puritans will return full force with at least ... http://filmandcinemapuritans.today.com/2009/08/23/hello/ I'm talking about the 2007 action stinker, SHOOT 'EM UP, which after seeing it I wouldn't know who the target audience for this film would be. Story revolves around a woman giving birth to a child that has been marked for termination and a stranger(Clive Owen) who just happened to be ... http://filmandcinemapuritans.today.com/2009/08/01/shoot-em-up/