Horrortoberfest 2014: Day 3 – Barracuda (1978)
I’ll be honest, half the reason I picked Barracuda for the week’s animal attack theme was because as soon as I saw it I couldn’t get that Heart song out […]
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Horrortoberfest 2014: Day 2 – Blood Lake (2014)
I’m not entirely sure how Animal Planet managed to convince Shannen Doherty and Christopher Lloyd to be in their shitty made for TV movie about killer lampreys but, hey, here […]
Horrortoberfest 2014: Day 1 – Slugs (1987)
Time to start this Horrortoberfest off with an incredible slow, ridiculous bang. Slugs is one of those films where I can only imagine the reason the movie got made was […]
Monday Movie Review – Crocodile Dundee (1986)
Crocodile Dundee is one of those cultural touchstone movies that I just never bothered with. I already knew “That’s not a knife. That’s a knife.” so I didn’t really feel […]
Monday Movie Review – Barbarella (1968)
I was going through the selection of available movies on Netflix when I stumbled across Barbarella. I thought to myself “Hey, this is a famous campy movie. I could totally review […]
Monday Movie Review – Dark Dungeons (2014)
Based on the Chick Tract of the same name, I can even tell you how much I looked forward to this when I first heard about it. I love pretty […]
Monday Movie Review – Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
Marvel is cashing in all of its built up good will to put out a movie that, by all rights, could not have been made only a few years ago. […]
Politics of Gaming – Barrier to Entry
A little while ago a friend of mine linked me to an article about the issues that many new players face when trying to get into gaming. The focus was […]
Monday Movie Review – My Little Pony: Equestria Girls (2013)
I will admit that I was really uncertain going into this if I was going to be able to give it a fair shake without it being tainted by […]
Movie Review Monday – Tarzan (1999)
Tarzan is one of those stories like Peter Pan or The Wizard of Oz where you end up getting a whole bunch of different versions of it with a new […]
Monday Movie Review – World War Z (2013)
I am continuing on with reviewing movies based on books that I haven’t read. While I have heard all of the really negative things about World War Z because it […]
Monday Movie Review – Holes (2003)
Going into this film, the only thing I knew about it was that it was the first thing Shia LeBeouf had done. I know it was based on a book […]
Monday Movie Review – Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013)
I completely and unabashedly loved the first Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs movie. As someone that grew up with the book as one of my favorite stories, I really […]
Monday Movie Review – Godzilla (2014)
Going into Godzllla, I was somewhat hopeful. They hadn’t fucked up the design like the Matthew Broderick one (all comments about the King of Monsters being a bit pudgy aside). […]
Politics of Gaming – For Matures Only
The topic of “mature” games and their place has been one that has been stewing in my brain for a while now. As gamers have grown up over the years, […]
Monday Movie Review – The Amazing Spider-Man 2
I should just say that I was really looking forward to this movie. I think the first Amazing Spider-Man was very good and I’d have to watch the Raimi Spider-Man […]
Monday Movie Review – Captain America: The Winter Soldier
I have been a firm believer that the first Captain America film was one of the best to come out of Marvel Studios with probably only The Avengers as the other […]
Monday Movie Review – Footloose (2011)
I know it seems like I’ve been on a remake and sequel kick lately but it’s the 30th anniversary of the original Footloose and this movie has been sitting in […]
Politics of Gaming – The Role of Random in Games
One of the core elements that goes into so many games is random chance. Whether it is a roll of the die, the drawing of a card, or even the […]
Monday Movie Review – Men in Black 2 (2002)
The Men In Black franchise is one of those that I actually thought would be fine for a sequel. A lot of stories end up being fairly well wrapped up […]
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