Lisa Morton

Lisa Morton is a screenwriter, Halloween expert, and the author of nearly 50 short stories. Her first novel The Castle of Los Angeles was published in 2010 by Gray Friar Press, and her first collection, Monsters of L.A., will be out in 2011 from Bad Moon Books. She lives online at www.lisamorton.com.

Mike and Lisa's Throwdown Review: Zombieland

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Lisa Morton

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Michael Marano

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Mike and Lisa's Throwdown Review: The Watchmen

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Lisa Morton

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Michael Marano

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Mike and Lisa's Throwdown Review: A Tale of Two Sisters

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Lisa Morton

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Michael Marano

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Mike and Lisa's Throwdown Review: Superman Returns

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Lisa Morton

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Michael Marano

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Mike and Lisa's Throwdown Review: Snakes on a Plane

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Lisa Morton

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Michael Marano

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Lisa

"You knew what you were going to get. There was no way you could be let down."
—Snakes on a Plane audience member, as quoted in the L. A. Times, 8/21/06.

It's a triumph of postmodernism.

Mike and Lisa's Throwdown Review: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

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Lisa Morton

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Michael Marano

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Mike and Lisa's Throwdown Review: Sin City

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Lisa Morton

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Michael Marano

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Mike and Lisa's Throwdown Review: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

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Lisa Morton

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Michael Marano

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Lisa

Whether you think all references to Harry Potter should forever be consigned to the Antarctic, or you're one of those who (like . . . ahem . . . me) pre-order each new book so you can have it on the day of its release, there's at least one thing you have to admit about the series' creator J. K. Rowling:

Mike and Lisa's Throwdown Review: Pan's Labyrinth

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Lisa Morton

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Michael Marano

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Lisa

A young girl in Spain escapes the nightmare of living under Franco's fascism by escaping into a fantasy world.

Mike and Lisa's Throwdown Review: Mother of Tears

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Lisa Morton

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Michael Marano

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Mike and Lisa's Throwdown Review: Land of the Dead

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Lisa Morton

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Michael Marano

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Lisa

God bless the 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead.

Mike and Lisa's Throwdown Review: King Kong

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Lisa Morton

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Michael Marano

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Mike and Lisa's Throwdown Review: Inland Empire

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Lisa Morton

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Michael Marano

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Lisa

David Lynch's Inland Empire is one of the most brilliant examples of film-as-surrealist art to hit movie screens since the glory days of Bunuel and Godard . . .

or . . . .

It's three hours of fragmented, self-indulgent drivel.

Mike and Lisa's Throwdown Review: I am Legend

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Lisa Morton

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Michael Marano

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Lisa

Once upon a time, American action films existed without explosions. Maybe they weren't truthfully even action films yet. Maybe they were actually Westerns or war pictures or spy thrillers.