“The Dead” Review
The Dead gets off to an intense start, showing a zombie outbreak at its most gruesome in a small African villiage. With a populous that has virtually no means of fighting back effectively, it is a particularily brutal scene that… Continue reading
Review of ‘Troll Hunter’ (Trolljegeren)
The recent resurgence of ‘Found Footage’ films must be a dream come true for the low-budget-indie-horror movie-makers out there. Despite its overwhelming financial success, The Blair Witch Project didn’t really spark much industry interest in the genre it practically invented.
Fast forward… Continue reading
Review: Rise of the Planet of the Apes
People dressed up as monkeys look silly. It’s just a fact. In this day and age, if you want to make a Planet of the Apes film that is even remotely removed from the camp asssociated with its predecessors, you… Continue reading
Review of Captain America: The First Avenger
The best thing about the current comic-to-movie adaption renaissance we are currently experiencing is that it gives comic book films a credibility, long absent from the genre. This isn’t necessarily important as a means to getting non-comic readers into the theatre(though that… Continue reading
In Honor of NBC’s Wonder Woman: More TV Pilots That Were Thankfully Never Picked Up
Now that NBC has (mercifully) decided not to move ahead with their new David E. Kelly adaption of Wonder Woman, here are a few other series we have been lucky enough to have been spared the indignity of seeing on… Continue reading
Alphas: Pilot (1.01)
Remember Heroes? Remember all the promise of that show? Ordinary people with superpowers and superpowers with real-world consequences. A fantastic premise that I thought was going to make one hell of a TV show.
Unfortunately Heroes peaked with the… Continue reading
Hobo With A Shotgun
The recent resurgence of grindhouse cinema is certainly not something that is going to appeal to everyone. These films are appallingly, yet gleefully, violent. They hearken back to a time where movies didn’t have to be good to be enjoyed.… Continue reading
The McRib
“The McRib is Back!” vaunts a human-sized sign that greets you upon your entrance, as though some old friend, long missed and never forgotten, has come back to make your life worth living again.
Lucky you.
‘Rib’ is a bit… Continue reading
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
After that last movie, Michael Bay set the Transformers bar so low he could have stepped over it. Instead he lumbered right through it, setting an even lower precedent for the inescapable future entries into the franchise.
I’m not a… Continue reading