Spent most of March watching good non-horror films. Last half of the month was a little light due to focus on the next amazing feature length horror film from Dead Lantern Pictures. Also ended up watching season 5 of The Office and a whole lotta March Madness games. I got an e-mail from a couple people inquiring as to how I am able to watch this many movies and still find time for TV, DL film projects, L4D, etc. The answer is that I have a job that allows me to watch 3-4 films per day if I desire to do so because for long stretches I’m just sitting around doing nothing. So while at work, I can watch and re-watch films I really enjoy, like a 3 hour Spartacus epic, for example. It’s a good job.

Orange means worth your time, Red means essential viewing.

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I didn’t see as much stuff as I wanted to this month. Bioshock 2 came out and the Splatcademy Awards work started. And I had the T-Virus for over a week, in which I would just randomly fall asleep all the time. What I lacked in time to watch feature lengths, I probably made up for with The Office and Spartacus: Blood and Sand. Easier to digest shorter TV entertainment than 2 hour movies sometimes.

Anyways, here’s what I watched in sequential order. Orange means worth your time, Red means essential viewing.

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I love movies. Of all the Splattercast hosts, I probably watch the most in terms of sheer volume. I try to get to 50-60 flicks per month. Sometimes more, sometimes less, but to better prepare for next year’s Splatcademy Awards, I decided to start making a note of every film I watch, and this new segment sort of grew out of that. So below you’ll find every feature length film that I watched in January, in sequential order of viewing, along with some brief comments on each one.

The first half of the month was dominated mostly with flicks I was trying to catch up on in prep work for the Splatcademy Awards. The second half was getting back to the stuff I generally watch. I generally try to avoid crap so you’ll find a lot of good stuff as you go further into the list.

Titles in orange are flicks that are definitely worth looking at, titles in red are sort of “can’t-miss” flicks that should be at the top of your Netflix queue. Enjoy.

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