Archive for April, 2010
Freeze Frame
by Erika Olson | April 30th, 2010 | Filed under: Quizzes, Contests & PollsIt seems like only yesterday I was wondering how it already got to be the end of March… and now here we are at the last day of April. Not that I’m complaining — it’s a gorgeous 80-degree evening here in Chicago and summer is right around the corner. Which means that I’ll inevitably have [...]
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Thursday Threes: The Answer
by Locke Peterseim | April 30th, 2010 | Filed under: Quizzes, Contests & Polls, ThreesI know it’s Spring and your thoughts have turned to baseball and–as my older high-school teaching peers used to call it–”rutting season,” but come on, people. This one was so easy and only ten of you took a shot? Okay, maybe this one was a little tricky, since the actor in question, who appeared in [...]
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Locke’s Spooky Flicks of the Week
by Locke Peterseim | April 30th, 2010 | Filed under: DVD Reviews, Movies, Redbox Focus, Weekly redbox PicksSome Interesting, Lesser-Known Horror Movies from the redbox Kiosks We’ve been celebrating Spooky Movie Week (or “Half Halloween”) here at redblog, so let me take a whirl through a bunch of spooky DVDs currently in the kiosks. Some are new, some are older. Some I love, some I like, some I didn’t care for but feel [...]
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Under the Sea (IMAX)
by Erika Olson | April 30th, 2010 | Filed under: DVD Reviews, MoviesItching to escape your daily routine? Hankering to go on an exotic vacation, but don’t see that happening in the near future? Want to get really close to a great white shark without the fear of, you know, being eaten? Look no further than the spectacular Under the Sea, which is guaranteed to pull you [...]
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redblog Readers Who Rock: Doug B
by Erika Olson | April 30th, 2010 | Filed under: Readers Who RockThe latest redblog frequenter to become a member of the Readers Who Rock club is Doug B. Doug started playing Freeze Frame last July and has ranked several times in the recent past. After interviewing him, however, I gotta wonder why in the heck he doesn’t comment more — not just play FF, but leave [...]
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by Locke Peterseim | April 29th, 2010 | Filed under: Quizzes, Contests & Polls, ThreesThe Evening Threes! I give you three films, you tell me what single actor was in all three of them. Enter your guess in the comments section directly below this post, and if you are the first with the correct answer you’ll find yourself with the homemade construction-paper medal! (Emphasis on the making it at your own home part.) I [...]
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The (Spooky Movie) Close-Up Poster Quiz Answer
by Locke Peterseim | April 29th, 2010 | Filed under: Other Bits, Quizzes, Contests & Polls, Redbox FocusWith this week’s film I got to kill two movie birds with one stone . If you still haven’t figured it out, check the extra visual clue to the left. Our regular redblog quiz-meisters had no problem with it–Donna was first with the correct answer, followed quickly by Sparky and then Ashley. Congrats! I thought [...]
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File Under “Why… WHY?!?”
by Erika Olson | April 29th, 2010 | Filed under: NewsI’ve got two bits of movie news for you today that are not related in any way except that they both make me want to tear my hair out and cry to the heavens. The first is that there’s going to be a Magic 8-Ball movie. I know I shouldn’t be surprised by this since [...]
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Your Close-Up Poster Quiz (Spooky Movie Edition!)
by Locke Peterseim | April 28th, 2010 | Filed under: Other Bits, Quizzes, Contests & PollsAs you may have noticed, it’s Spooky Movie Week here at redblog, or as I call it, “Half Halloween” (my new made-up holiday halfway between last year’s and this year’s Halloween). We’ve got a ton of scary, spooky, or just plain odd movies in the redboxes, like Gabriel (creepy angels and demons!), Wind Chill (frosty [...]
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by Locke Peterseim | April 28th, 2010 | Filed under: Quizzes, Contests & Polls, ThreesBecause I am technically “old and out of touch” (ie, over 40) I’m not sure how to pronounce our Threes winner’s name: 2as. Too-az? Twas? Two-aays? However it’s pronounced, congrats to him/her/it (it’s possible 2as is a robot from the future, sent to overthrow humankind by quickly and efficiently answering all our movie trivia questions… [...]
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