Articles by Melissa Howland
Hello... so nice to meet you! Won't you please take a tour inside my head! First off... I am the biggest NERD (possibly alive!) I graduated from Millikin University with my BA in Art Therapy in 03 and put my degree to good use by watching movies! I enjoy playing old school nintendo, Cocoa Pebbles, collecting yard gnomes and sock monkeys, shenanigans with the ladies, super awesome rock shows that will melt my face off, and making fun... I mean hanging out with my twin sister Mindy. I spend most of my time watching the worst films known to man! You name it, I'll watch it. I have a hole in my soul that can only be filled by scary movies! www.myspace.com/misalicious... if you friend me type in Movie Geeks or else I will have no clue who you are! MOVIE FAVS: A Nightmare on Elm Street Series, Dead Poets Society, The Crow, Alice in Wonderland, Switchblade Sisters, Frankenhooker, Peter Pan, Pumpkinhead, Reform School Girls, Feast, Night of the Living Dead, Day of the Dead, Night of the Demons, Wild at Heart, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Fright Night, anything Tim Burton... Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, and especially Nightmare Before Christmas! Harry Potter and anything Brat Pack! That's just to name a few!
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So, this column is about things NOT to do in a theater, while watching movies with friends that actually want to WATCH the movie, and movie going HORROR STORIES… My tale fits nicely into these …
Since my start not too long ago with the Movie Geeks, I have been contemplating the start of a movie etiquette column. The purpose being that some of you out there need to be schooled …
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Are all the movie ideas taken? Lately it seems like all of the great one’s are being re-made. No exception with ‘Night of the Demons’. It seems that they are taking the story from the …
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Warning: Spoilers if you have not read book 2!
When seeing ‘Twilight’ for the first time, there was only one character that didn’t really fit. That would be Taylor Lautner as Jacob Black. Something about him …
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1959… lovers lane… you’ve got a foxy lady in your car… all of a sudden something falls out of the sky. What do you do? Well, you ignore the hot chick and check it out …
“I want to be remembered as the woman who changed people’s perspectives concerning nudity in its natural form.” Bettie Page, Los Angeles Times 2006
The great American pin-up, Bettie Page, died Thursday night, Dec 11th, 2008 …
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So… If you are as big of a ‘Harry Potter’ geek as I am, you’ll be uber excited about this… An exhibit is getting ready to tour the states which includes artifacts from the films!!! …
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With all the Vampire hype from ‘Twilight’, I thought that I would take the time to explain what a REAL VAMPIRE movie is like… (Disclaimer: I did really enjoy ‘Twilight’… but in the girly-swoon at …
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So… The geeks are hanging out at the S.L.I.F.F. after-party at Blueberry Hill when Jeremy says “I don’t know if I’m just trying to see celebrities, but isn’t that Rider Strong at the bar?” Well… …
Steve Guttenberg… How I miss your face on the big screen. He was quite a leading man back in the day! The Boyfriend School aka Don’t Tell Her It’s Me from 1990 is certainly no …
Raise your hand if Kevin Smith rocks your face off!!!
Just so you know… I raised BOTH hands (but I can’t keep them up sinceits best that I put my feelings into words!).
The whole cast is …
Oh Ringo! Most of you I would hope are familiar with the great Ringo Starr. The reason that I can put this on the site is that not only is he an Ex-Beatle, but he …
Good news for all you Spider-Man fans! Spashpage.MTV.com is reporting that Dunst has confirmed that she will continue playing her role of Mary Jane Watson in the new Spider-Man 4! She had said previously that …
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Beetlegeuse! Beetlegeuse! Beetlegeuse!
So, I took a trip down memory lane tonight, like I often do during the week when the new Netflix mail hasn’t arrived, and decided to relive Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice. What’s better than …
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Keira Knightley stars in this new period film that keeps a quick pace, doesn’t try to be overly eloquent and pompous and strikes a cord at being kind of a new breed of costume …
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“Wanna date?”
Do you like 80’s babes? Science geeks? Watching hookers go crazy for super crack? Then boy do I have a movie for you! (Yes. It was released in 1990 but they are still 80’s …
