At one time, recently, I thought I might be crazy. If you read the first article I wrote about Jack Hunter, you could certainly come to that conclusion. I'm not crazy, though, and I can tell you why. Within the last 20 plus days (After September 10th), I have experienced what I would call the strangest communications that I can imagine. The bad part about it is that I can't prove anything happened.

The Lucid Dream

The first lucid dream I mentioned was only the beginning of several related dreams, but they weren't lucid. There were images similar to the first and images of places I don't think I've ever been to.

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While I was writing my previous two articles, I noticed I had an uninvited guest in my house. Perhaps he or she is welcome, but it's impossible to determine that when I can't see him or her.

You could say that I'm seeing things out of the corner of my eye, as is discussed on the Wikipedia page about shadow people. You could say it, but you'd be wrong.

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Cloverfield is much more than a monster movie, Godzilla style. It's what you might see if you if you picked up a video camera that someone was holding throughout the events that took place.

I really enjoyed this movie, even though I found one major flaw in it. There is no way in hell that the monster could have lived after being the target of missiles and bombs. That ammo is designed to go through steel and I'd don't think any living creature has a hide that strong.

The monster wasn't the scariest part of the movie. He was just lumbering around, destroying things, and eating random people on the fly. The scariest part were the critters falling off its body. I don't know what the critters were doing to the people, but it didn't look like they were playing. Thankfully, we didn't see anyone getting chomped on.

If you want realism in a horror flick, I highly recommend you watch Cloverfield.

It stars Lizzy Caplan, Jessica Lucas, T.J. Miller, Michael Stahl-David, Mike Vogel and Odette Yustman. Here's a 5-minute clip from the movie:

The Da Vinci Code is an excellent film. The religious content could be replaced with just about anything else and it would still be entertaining. I know a lot of people wouldn't agree with me, but I don't care. This movie (and the book it was based on) isn't about religion; it's about power and the people who use power to suppress information that shouldn't be suppressed.

In this story, Professor Langdon is lured into a treasure hunt for the most valuable treasure in the world: The Holy Grail. It wasn't his choice — the French government, along with some powerful people in the Catholic church, implicated him in murder. Anyway, this is as far as I'll go with it, lest I spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen it yet.

The Da Vinci Code stars Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Ian McKellen, Jean Reno, Paul Bettany and Alfred Molina. Here's a clip of the final scenes in the movie with some awesome background music.

From the same people (and starring some of the same actors) that brought you "Shaun of the Dead" (which I haven't written about yet), this is "Hot Fuzz".

Simon Pegg does a great job as a police officer reassigned from London to a small village because he's making everyone else in his department look bad. I don't know if you'd call it "deadpan" acting, but he played the part fairly straight and it just made it all that much funnier. Never mind that it's a murder mystery as well as a comedy. The last 15 minutes or so had me laughing so hard my sides ached.

Hot Fuzz stars Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and a whole slew of others. Here's the trailer:

I almost made the mistake of not watching this movie. I was treated in earlier years to some of the most boring movies ever that were billed as period pieces. Slow dramas don't interest me much.

This is not the case with "The Illusionist". The story involves a young peasant and his relationship with a young lady of the upper class. The relationship was forbidden. His talents included magic and illusions and during their separation of 15 years, he honed his craft and returned (with an alias) as a master illusionist on the stage. He gets back together with his love and then things go terribly wrong. The crown prince, who wanted her as his bride, killed her while in a drunken stupor when she said she wasn't going to marry him and walked out. Or did he?

This movie kept me captivated until the last five minutes when everything was revealed. The Illusionist stars Edward Norton (who will play Bruce Banner in the upcoming Hulk movie), Jessica Biel, Paul Giamatti, and Rufus Sewell. Here's the trailer: