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Screen Drafts (Home Version) 20 : The Entirety of Italian Horror

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Dennis (me) V (my wife) and our friends Scott and Nick play a game based on the popular podcast screen drafts every few months or so. We watch dozens of movies based on the topic at hand (Italian horror in this case) and we have vetoes and overrides; those and positioning in the top 18 list we are attempting are all decided by trivia. For a more detailed breakdown of the game check the first ten or so write ups found on this blog. Scott chose Italian horror. It is a crazy big topic, but we did our best. The next topic as chosen by my wife will be horror themed and strange music videos. Everyone left this game with left over vetoes and overrides except Scott he left with just the veto. Games 18 and 19 were done on my letterboxd because I was busy working on a writing project. I am doing this write up because this is TWENTY so that means something.   https://letterboxd.com/dennis_brian/list/screen-drafts-home-version-lets-saw-eli-roth/    18 https://letterboxd.com/dennis_br...
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A Year of Going to the Movies 2025 (Best and Worst)

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  It's been another great year for engaging with art. I attended 76 films in theaters, double that and you have the amount of 2025 released films I have seen in all. Cinemas are struggling, but many of the films I viewed I viewed in packed houses. I was also lucky enough to see 7 concerts including Garrison Keillor who told a great story about being one of the last people to see Babe Ruth play, The Temptations, Dracula Annotated, David Spade (doing an exactly one hour set) and two touring drag shows.  I will save the best concert I attended for later in this write up because it has a great deal to do with cinema. My best and worst of the year will be discussed, as ever, month by month. It was a good year personally.  We added a bearded dragon (Sinatra) and two kittens (Jane and Bug) to the family.  January     films watched in theaters The Damned, Rope (1948), The Room Next Door, Shockma (1990), One of Them Days, Hard Truths My wife and I attended a sc...
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Screen Drafts (Home Version) 17: The Science of Scares

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It was my wife's turn to pick the next screen draft home version topic.  Screen Drafts is a competitive game where players (in this case Dennis, me, Vanessa and two of our friends Scott and Nick) work to make a top 18 list on a given topic where vetoes and veto overrides can be deployed (and incidentally carried over: My wife starts the next game with one of each, Nick and I start with an override and Scott starts with a veto). My wife became very taken with this study called The Science of Scare. It is a 250 participant study where horror movies are watched with concern towards heart rate. The film that most elevates the heart rate is scariest to them, for details on how they pick what films to watch, the order of the films and how the study is conducted seek out their website. It is hard to navigate but interesting. I submit below the 2025 top 50 list that we had to pick from in alphabetical order. 28 Days Later,  The Autopsy of Jane Doe,  A Nightmare on Elm S...
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