Welcome, readers, to The Movie Geek's Hideout. My name's Jon, I am a current freshman at McDaniel College in Westminster, MD, and since I was young I've loved three things very, very much: rock music, hamburgers, and the cinematic arts. I can't say for sure what it is that first sparked my love affair with film (except for the obvious fact that most of us love movies--they're an integral aspect of contemporary culture, and have been throughout the 20th and 21st centuries) but for as long as I have had the capability to spend my time watching and enjoying movies, I have done so quite vigorously. Growing up, (and to this day,) some of my favorites have included the original Star Wars trilogy, Gremlins, the 1933 King Kong, the Back to the Future trilogy, and 2001: A Space Odyssey. Over time, my tastes expanded quite rapidly and I developed a fairly eclectic and open-minded taste for movies. Some of my current and long-standing favorites, in addition to the ones listed above, are Dirty Harry, Pulp Fiction, The Big Lebowski, Apocalypse Now, Sleeper, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Forbidden Planet, Cool Hand Luke, Rear Window and Double Indemnity. I have also never been one to shy away from exploitation films, monster movies and various other "guilty pleasures," and so I am also an avid fan of the Godzilla (or Gojira, for the sake of inclusiveness) series of films, and pictures such as Reefer Madness and The Last House on the Left. Lately I have also developed a passing interest in horror movies, and I have always loved oddball comedies, chase movies, detective movies and science fiction. In all, I have seen many movies, and to list all of the ones I have liked would certainly take more time, patience and space than I have on hand right now. At any rate, below is a tentative list of reviews and features to come, and I hope that this most recent venture of mine will come to be fruitful for me and for you, my readers. Assuming that I end up having readers. Which is not a definite outcome.
Anyway, and in no particular order, here is what you should be looking forward to as a reader of The Movie Geek's Hideout:
-Review of Patton
-Review of Bullitt
-Review of Raising Arizona
-Review of Friday the 13th
-Review of Phantasm
-Review of Event Horizon
-Review of Dragonslayer
-Review of Suspiria
-Review of Heavy Metal
-Review of The Last House on the Left (1972)
-Review of From Beyond
~Jon
