Stories tagged “movies”

  • Today we are real, and not on a screen.

    We are not cool. We don’t know what we’re doing, really, and if we do know we’re not sure if it will work. We can’t remember important things sometimes, we have to write stuff down a lot and the more organized of us use a planne...

  • A Brief Introduction to the World of Mammoth

    My very first story!! I’m so excited!! Now, in my (cruelly abbreviated) Bio, I promised to share a little bit of my knowledge about mammoth with everyone. I don’t like to brag, but I am a leading self-appointed expert on mammoth habitat, di...

    • Author: Leecat
    • Posted almost 3 years ago.

  • When is the right moment?

    He looked hurt. I sighed. This was to complicated. “What’s wrong?” He asked. “I’m tired of this Jared.” I told him. “Tired of what.” He took a step towards me. I took a step towards him and hugged him. &...

    • Author: Violet
    • Posted almost 3 years ago.

  • The Love Question?

    A young boy was trying to figure out the meaning of LOVE. See by the tender age of 13 he was already confused by this word because pop songs and movies had confused him. He decided to ask his grandpa Juan. “Hey grandpa, have you ever thought abo...

  • The Love Question?

    A young boy was trying to figure out the meaning of LOVE. See by the tender age of 13 he was already confused by this word because pop songs and movies had confused him. He decided to ask his grandpa Juan. “Hey grandpa, have you ever thought abo...

  • A Kurosawa kind of night

    I didn’t remember her. She was about my age, maybe a little younger. I thought I had a pretty good memory for the girls from school, especially the ones who walked down the halls and passed me like I was invisible. I glanced down at the cigarette...

    • Author: Tezrak
    • Posted over 2 years ago.
    • 5 out of 5

  • Wrong Turn 2 in 10 Words

    “Ahh! Inbred hillbilly cannibals!” …then Henry Rollins saves the day.

  • Pulp Fiction in 10 Words

    “What does the inside of Marsellus Wallace’s suitcase look like?”

  • A Girl With (Temporarily) No Name

    “Nice to meet’cha. For a second, I felt like I’d been through the desert.” As the words left my mouth, my foot slide right in after them. “So I’m a horse, now?” Her eyes widened, and she took a drag off her smo...

    • Author: Tezrak
    • Posted over 2 years ago.
    • 5 out of 5

  • Citizen Kane in 10 words

    Lost sledge drives print tycoon to fame, fortune and dissatisfaction.

  • I am Legend in 10 words

    Noooooooo! KILLER ……. MONSTER ……. PLAGUE! At least I have my dog.

    • Author: Coccinella
    • Posted over 2 years ago.
    • 1 out of 5

  • In Yoda We Trust

    “That’s right. Named for the Archangel himself.” Now it was my turn for my eyes to widen. From movies to Christianity, it seems. “That’s quite the burden your parents gave you,” she continued, stuffing her hands in t...

    • Author: Tezrak
    • Posted over 2 years ago.
    • 5 out of 5

  • Which One? Which One?

    Damon turned off the TV, and everyone crowded around the DVDs that were piled off to one corner of the room. “Let’s watch Zombieland next,” Jenna said, waving the DVD case in the air. “No way. I’ve seen that like ten times...

  • Not Like the Movies

    The two burly henchmen dragged the cuffed Agent Jim Band into the room. “Did you really think you would get past my security?” Dr Yes chuckled. “I had hoped as much. I wonder who will stop your doomsday plan now?” Jim asked sarc...

  • Passage of Revenge

    The house had been in disarray for days now. Books littered the floor and his thumb was callused from the turning of the pages. He would find it. He had to. The idea had popped into his head when the boss, yet again, tormented him and called him no-goo...

    • Author: Horrorfan13
    • Posted over 1 year ago.
    • 4 out of 5

  • Frankly my dear, we're out of ideas.

    “Frankly, we’re out of ideas, Cinema’s in a rut, we need something new, so we’re going to back to the golden age and see what we can copy.” “Historical Drama? Gone with the Wind was huge!” “No, that’...

  • Cinéma Vérité

    I was sitting in my office on the third floor, going over my reviews for the next week’s papers, when my phone rang. “Yes?” “I wanted to talk about the review you gave the latest James Bond movie,” a voice said. It sounded...

  • "Glasshouse of Time", a Review

    Bring some stones for throwing. Everything about this film is just awful—the leads, whose acting is suitably wooden to build a clipper ship; the music, which sounds like my granddaughter’s fourth-grade band† recorded it; the visual effect...

  • Is It a Reverie, or Just an Illusion of Live Movements That Comp

    When the experiments of English photographer Eadweard Muybridge, gave way to the concept of motion picture, a new revolution of witnessing the movements of objects in celluloid ushered in. In the late 19th century, many couldn’t make out whether it w...