Escape from New York: They Call Him Mr. Plissken
The gaps in my pop-culture knowledge are well documented. I never saw all three Godfather movies until 2013 and didn’t see Tron until 2008. There’s too much media, and Continue Reading
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The Circle: She Loved Big Brother
The Circle is the second movie I’ve seen this year with an abysmal Rotten Tomatoes score that I’ve enjoyed (The first being the much-maligned Fifty Shades Darker). While Continue Reading
Netflix, ratings, and Lars von Trier
I want to talk about Netflix’s new ratings system, in the context of Danish auteur Lars von Trier. To date, I have seen three von Trier Continue Reading
Twilight: 50 Shades of OG
Sparkley vampires. Mormon references. Team Edward or Team Jacob? Badly written fan fiction. With its hold on the cultural zeitgeist, it’s hard to believe that Twilight was Continue Reading
50 Shades of Prettier Woman
Double Toasted recently ripped Kevin Smith’s Yoga Hosers on a premise that very much speaks to how I feel about 50 Shades Darker. In the DT review, they lamented Continue Reading
Millennium: 12 Monkeys 0.5
I vaguely remember watching 1989’s Millennium once in my childhood. While mostly a forgettable film, the ending stuck with me, with its booming voice-over narration making grand sweeping Continue Reading
Zombeavers: And the jokes write themselves
In a bit of a meta-moment, about halfway through Zombeavers, one of the main characters says “quit with the beaver jokes.” It’d be nice if this Continue Reading
The Fall: Men Who Hate Women
The evolution of television means that concepts get revisited every few years, adapted, improved upon. Sometimes when TV returns to an idea it makes the Continue Reading
A Way Too Late Year in Review: 2016
Apparently, this was the year I wrote about zombies. Lots of zombies. Fast zombies, slow zombies. Zombies on the big screen, the small screen, and Continue Reading
V for Vendetta: the Once and Future 1984
In 1985, author Neil Postman released Amusing Ourselves to Death, a treaty on political discourse in the mass media age. Postman argued that George Orwell’s vision of Continue Reading
The Millennium Trilogy: Sex, Death, IKEA
In 2011, David Fincher released The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, based on the first novel in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy. Fincher’s follow-up to The Social Network boasted an A-list cast, Continue Reading
Final Girl: Boring Vengeance
There’s a trope in horror movies: the final girl. The one left alive. Who confronts (and maybe defeats) the killer. The one left to tell Continue Reading
Queen of the Damned; King of Bad Adaptations
Is Anne Rice still a rite of passage for fledgling goth kids? The first four novels in her Vampire Chronicles series were required reading when I was Continue Reading
Dead Set: Big Brother is Eating Your Brains
Fun fact: I’m stingy with my Netflix ratings. Few movies or TV shows get five stars; most get three or four. A quick review of Continue Reading
Train to Busan: Making All Stops
Discovering Train to Busan was a happy accident, and for that I blame the Mountain Goats. This year, the Mountain Goats were playing Wicker Park Fest, and my Continue Reading
The History of Future Folk: Space Worms and Banjos
The History of Future Folk, released in 2012, invites us to picture a scenario. You’re the best general alive. A comet is about to destroy everything Continue Reading
Ava’s Possessions: Demon Anonymous
Few things pique my interest more than the words “music by Sean Lennon.” I’m a big fan of Lennon’s music and his involvement first drew Continue Reading
Deathgasm: Heavy Metal of Doooooooooooooooom
It’s been getting tough to find movies to watch on Netflix lately, especially as their content library has shrunk by 33% in the past two Continue Reading
The Punisher (Jon Bernthal Edition)
Today, in what I never expected to become the latest in a series of posts that started with Dolph Lundgren and continue with Thomas Jane, I’ll be Continue Reading
Knights of Badassdom: LARPing for Keeps
Let’s get one thing out of the way. For a movie about LARPing, Knights of Badassdom could have gone so wrong. I mean, it does go wrong, but not in Continue Reading
10 Cloverfield Lane: The Address You’ll Never Leave
Because Bad Robot films are super cereal about insisting that moviegoers avoid spoilers for their films, I’ll put the rest of my spoiler-y review of 10 Cloverfield Continue Reading