
Year: 2008
Director: Gabriele Muccino
Summary: The emotional story of a man who will change the lives of seven strangers

Year: 2008
Director: Gabriele Muccino
Summary: The emotional story of a man who will change the lives of seven strangers

Year: 2012
Director: Gary Ross
Summary: Set in a future where the Capitol selects a boy and girl from the twelve districts to fight to the death on live television, Katniss Everdeen volunteers to take her younger sister’s place for the latest match.

Year: 1968
Director: John Sturges
Summary: Commander James Ferraday, USN, has new orders: get David Jones, a British civilian, Captain Anders, a tough Marine with a platoon of troops, Boris Vasilov, a friendly Russian, and the crew of the nuclear sub USS Tigerfish to the North Pole to rescue the crew of Drift Ice Station Zebra, a weather station at the top of the world…

Year: 2000
Director: John Frankenheimer
Summary: The film enters the colorful and conniving world of lowlife criminals scheming to turn a straightened ex-con crooked again.

Director: David Veloz
Year: 1998
Summary: Comedy writer Jerry Stahl, whose $6000-a-week heroin habit had him taking his infant daughter along on his drug runs and doing smack during TV script conferences.

Year: 1973
Director: William Friedkin
Summary: A troubled cleric tries to help a very disturbed teenage girl.

Year: 1994
Director: Mike Newell
Summary: Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.

Year: 1994
Director: Steve James
Summary: A film following the lives of two African American boys who struggle to become college basketball players on the road to going professional.

“They were never handsome and often came
with a hormone imbalance manifested by corpulence,
a yodel of a voice or ears big as kidneys.
But each was brave.”
I think my days of making daily posts here at Death By Troggles are over. I’ve pretty much covered all of the mass media countdowns that I consider myself even remotely qualified to talk about. And with a young child and more demands at work, I find I’m coveting sleep over this site. Still, I love writing and I will continue to post. Tomorrow you’ll get to see whether or not I won the writing competition, and I’ll continue to post short stories I write. If I ever finish watching Deep Space Nine, I’ll probably do a countdown for that show. I almost never play video games anymore, but perhaps I’ll find something else to write about the ones I have played. If people are jonesing for reviews of fan-made text adventures, I could knock out about 40 pages right there.
The Director Series I did in 2013 was pretty popular. I’ve avoided doing any movie countdowns, because I honestly don’t remember enough about most movies I see to talk about them intelligently or find my favorite clips or whatever. But I enjoy talking about them, especially middling movies which aren’t to come up on a “Best Of” or “Worst Of” list. So when I have time I’ll use a random number generator to pick a movie I’ve seen. I’ll post something about it and open it up for discussion. Perhaps I’ll learn something along the way and have some fun. Hope to see you here.
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