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Saturday Shorts: Still Life
Ever take a long road trip and start to get a little, how shall we say, wacky? That’s par for the course with me in the car (I’ve been told between the bags of Twizzlers and the alphabet version of … Continue reading →
Weekend Movies: Five Reasons to Watch What We Do In the Shadows
Jemaine Clement is hit or miss with me. I loved him in Gentlemen Broncos; Flight of the Conchords, not so much. Yeah, I said it – for someone who has heard Conchords referred to as, “Yeah, it’s like coffee. It’s … Continue reading →
Work Quickly: The Importance of Speed in Wyrmwood
You know how there’s always one friend that’s complaining that the characters in a horror movie don’t have any common sense? Yeah, that’s me, backseat driving a horror film. When Wyrmwood began, I was wondering how long it would be … Continue reading →
Hell in a Handbasket: Lucy Edition
Ah, Lucy. I wanted to like this one. It had fun car chases and Choi Min-sik! The only thing it needed was bacon! Alas, I tell a lie. Lucy needed a lot more than bacon. It hurt. I have no … Continue reading →
Live Tweet Event: Iron Sky
We’re baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack…. That’s right, kids. We’re goin’ tweetin’ again. In keeping with the tradition of ripping on something, our prey this time around is Iron Sky. Full disclosure: I have yet to watch this one. I’m going into this only … Continue reading →
Saturday Shorts: Girl Go Boom
Ever have one of those weeks that has just been trying and exhausting? That’s been my past two weeks. I usually crack jokes to combat negative things because, really, it’s a far nicer feeling to let go and giggle at … Continue reading →
Weekend Movies: The Last House on the Left
I was going to recommend something else for this weekend, but then we had the untimely passing of Wes Craven. You always seem to take for granted that your favorites will be around until suddenly they’re not (on that note: … Continue reading →
Rooting For Slime: Corso as Polanski in The Ninth Gate
Ah, The Ninth Gate. This one leaves me conflicted. On one hand, it’s beautiful, has a great score (thanks, Wojciech Kilar – the use of horns and strings was mood-inducing as always), and has a subject that fascinates me: books … Continue reading →
They’re Coming For Us: Xenophobia in Constantine
As of last week, I had yet to watch 2005’s Constantine; I was not a reader of the Hellblazer comics, so it wasn’t anything urgent (I know, I know – I’m a bad comic fan, but really, sometimes, you don’t … Continue reading →