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I recently had the distinct pleasure of being nominated for a Sunshine Blogger Award by blogging pal Gill at Realweegiemidget Reviews . This made my month! So, the way it works is I answer the following eleven questions asked of me, then nominate somewhere between five and eleven bloggers for the award while providing them with a new set of eleven questions to answer. Here goes nothing! Your perfect romantic movie stars you opposite which actor/actress as your love interest? Do I really need to spell this one out for you? If you've been paying attention, you know the answer: Michelle Pfreaking Pfeiffer. Image courtesy of GorgeousPfeiffer.com What movie always makes you cry? Frankie and Johnny . Are you sensing a theme? What film do you think didn’t need a sequel? I think a sequel should have worked, but I'll choose The Matrix because in my opinion the sequels really only diluted the impact of the excellent first film. Whats your favourit...

I wrote three more articles recently for  Sequart . The first one delves into why  Pretty in Pink  still resonates with audiences thirty years after its release. The second looks at life lessons from the ridiculously underrated Michael Keaton flick The Paper . The third is my exploration of the key themes in Stephen King's novel  The Shining and how Stanley Kubrick took the film in some other directions. I wrote about  The Shining after finishing the book a week or so ago. I've read plenty of King's books over the years but had avoided that one due to my immense respect and love for Kubrick's film. I always thought that King's book couldn't compare—even though it's the source material and that's a fairly backwards way to look at this. Silly me. The book is definitely one of King's best, at least that I've read (my favorites remain Salem's Lot , The Stand , and all of the Dark Tower books). It was a trip reading this book after becomin...