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Paranormal Activity 3

question of the day: What film trends do you love, and which do you hate?

Mon, Nov 12, 2012
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Shaky cam? Found footage? Superheroes? Crossdressing? Nicholas Sparks adapations? Let it all out…

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Paranormal Activity 4 (review)

Tue, Oct 16, 2012
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It’s the Where’s Waldo of spooky stories. (Where’s the ghost? Find the ghost!) But much less fun.

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Paranormal Activity 4 (trailer)

Wed, Oct 03, 2012
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With PA4, we enter the Skype years! All new opportunities for people to sit in front of cameras doing nothing.

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deep thought (re ‘Paranormal Activity 3’)

Wed, Oct 26, 2011
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I wonder if everyone who went to see Paranormal Activity 3 this weekend mistakenly thought they were going to an Occupy Hollywood protest…

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Paranormal Activity 3 (review)

Fri, Oct 21, 2011
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When the only mildly creepy thing a horror film trailer has to offer doesn’t appear in the actual film, that’s bad.

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Paranormal Activity 3 (trailer)

Thu, Oct 20, 2011
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Are we going to just kept reverting further and further back into this family’s history of weirdness?

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Osama bin Laden on Twitter; no black people at the royal wedding, duh; DVD sales are plummeting; more: leftover links

Sat, May 07, 2011
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Plus: Where are the women of summer? Is ‘Doctor Who’ violating a new BBC ban on product placement? Is ‘Glee’ turning kids gay?

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