
Name: Rob Hunter
Location: Berkeley, CA
Reject Since: October 2007
Email: rob@filmschoolrejects.com
Bio: Films I Love
- Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
- Jaws
- Broadcast News
- Seven
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- Amelie
- Memento
- In Bruges

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‘Road Train’ Trailer Is Hell On Wheels, Australian Style Road trip movies are fairly common and often mundane, but there’s a subset within the genre that has a greater appeal to someone like me… and that’s road trips gone bad. Comments |
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This Week In DVD: November 17th Rob Hunter loves movies. He also loves his job as a CPA who occasionally finds a little mystery thrown his way. These two joys come together in the form of cash money payments that he receives every week and immediately uses to buy more DVDs. This week includes Star Trek, Vampire Party, Taintlight, and more! Comments |
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10 Great Films That Prove Slow Isn’t Always Boring Culture Warrior Landon Palmer, Foreign Objects specialist Rob Hunter and Dr. Cole Abaius take on the concept of slow films, and how they don’t always have to be boring. Comments |
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New ‘Rambo’ Film Gives Illegal Aliens A Pass, Targets Evil Canadians Instead Sylvester Stallone has apparently dropped a line to Craig Zablo over at the Stallone Zone and he updated the direction Rambo V will be taking. Comments |
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You know how movies with ticking bombs almost always have the climactic scene where the good guys work feverishly to disarm the explosives before they detonate? Roland Emmerich’s 2012 is twenty-seven of those scenes stretched across two and a half hours. Comments |
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David Koepp Will Write/Direct That ‘Quicksilver’ Remake You’ve Been Wanting ‘Premium Rush’ is the title they’re going with here? Really? Pair this with the recently announced Duncan Jones film ‘Source Code’ and you’re halfway to programming an early-nineties action film festival. Comments |
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Have Spielberg And Smith Said Goodbye To Remaking Old Boy? Word on the web is that the answer to that question is a big old fat “Hell, Yeah!” Comments |
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This Week In DVD: November 10th Rob Hunter loves movies. He also loves working for the local “retirement home” as head geezer catcher… basically he gets a call whenever one of the elderly residents escapes wanders off in a daze from the home. These two joys come together in the form of cash money payments that he receives every week and immediately uses to buy more DVDs. This week… Up, The Merry Gentleman, Spread, and more! Comments |
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Tom Ford’s ‘A Single Man’ Gets A Beautiful Trailer Tom Ford is a stylish man who’s been around a lot more naked women than I have. I’d cry foul, but he’s also been around a lot more naked men so instead I’ll just call it even. He’s been near the top of the fashion world for years, but now he looks to be expanding [...] Comments |
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Duncan Jones Will Direct ‘Source Code’ With Jake Gyllenhaal Source Code is about a soldier named Colter who awakens on a passenger train in another man’s body with no idea how he got there. He begins to explore his surroundings and finds a bomb… which blows up, killing him and everyone else on board. The end. Comments |
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Review: Disney’s A Christmas Carol Will Disney’s A Christmas Carol worm it’s way into your hearts and homes and become as much of a holiday staple as rum balls and spotted dick are now? Rob Hunter answers this and more… Comments |
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This Week In DVD: November 3rd Rob Hunter loves movies. He also loves working as Roger Thornhill’s personal drycleaner… between the dust-ups and the crop dusters, Thornhill has lots of suits in need of cleaning. These two joys come together in the form of cash money payments that he receives every week and immediately uses to buy more DVDs. This week… North By Northwest, GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Aliens In The Attic, and more! Comments |
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The Movie Watcher’s Guide To November 2009 Hello again movie fans! You may have noticed that there was no Movie Watcher’s Guide to October. There are several completely legitimate reasons for this, but instead of boring you with details please allow me to give a quick recap of the month’s box-office releases… The Invention of Lying, Whip It, Amelia, Astro Boy, Cirque [...] Comments |
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Win a Spooky Trick ‘r Treat, er… Treat One of the best horror anthology movies of the past few decades finally saw release this month in theaters (albeit very limited) and on DVD/Blu-ray. And we’d like to give it to you, along with a book. Comments |
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Discuss: Would You Buy More DVDs If Rentals Were Delayed Four Weeks? Basically a new DVD/Blu-ray would be released for sale only both online and on the shelves at Target, Wal-Mart, etc. If you want to see it, you have to buy it… or wait the additional few weeks for the sale-only window to close so you can rent it from your DVD peddler of choice. Comments |
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Foreign Objects: The Beast Stalker (Ching yan) Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to look for films worth visiting. So renew your passport, get your shots, and brush up on the local age of legal consent, this week we’re heading to… Hong Kong! Comments |
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This Week In DVD: October 27th Rob Hunter loves movies. He also loves working for the BBC where his job entails erasing old show master tapes because they don’t have the foresight to know that people may want to watch them again someday. These two joys come together in the form of cash money payments that he receives every week and immediately uses to buy more DVDs. This week… Monty Python, Orphan, Stan Helsing, and more! Comments |
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Fantastic Fest Review: Under the Mountain Twins! Psychic powers! Sam Neill! Alien neighbors! Gingers! How will they put them all together into one film? Comments |
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31 Days of Horror: Uzumaki (aka Spiral) A man obsessed with spiral imagery takes his own life, and soon the rest of the town becomes equally enamored by the mysterious designs… Comments |
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Shane Black Bringing ‘Doc Savage’ Back To The Big Screen? Who’s excited to finally see a brand new Doc Savage movie up on the big screen? Anyone? No one? Oh wait, Harry Knowles is! Comments |