Monday Movie Review – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
I haven’t read any of the books that go along with the Hunger Games series but I’ve heard a lot of people talking about the second book supposedly being the […]
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Politics of Gaming – Know Your Player Type: The Power Gamer
Last week we talked about getting to know the group dynamic of the people you play with and finding out how to make even a group with diverse desires from […]
Monday Movie Review: The Road (2009)
Going into this movie, I had no idea what it was about beyond the brief Netflix description of a man and his son in a post-apocalyptic world. What I got was […]
Politics of Gaming – The Group Dynamic
There are a lot of reasons why we play games. When we sit down to play a game it can be to lose ourselves in the fantasy of being someone […]
Monday Movie Review – Thor: The Dark World
Since it was so much fun doing the Horrortoberfest reviews last month, I’ve decided to keep on just doing movie reviews from now on, though on a once a week […]
Politics of Gaming – Player Knowledge and Elitism
Hello and welcome to the newest column on the System Mastery website, Politics of Gaming. Instead of looking at the game itself, we will be looking at the people sitting […]
Horrortoberfest Day 31 – Carrie (2013)
For the last review of this year’s Horrortoberfest, I figured I’d go see something that was actually in theatres. I’ll admit that I actually didn’t really care all that much […]
Horrortoberfest Day 30 – Pumpkinhead (1988)
Pumpkinhead has long shown up on lists of “classic” must-watch horror films for Halloween but I hadn’t really given it a chance since it never really seemed all that interesting. […]
Horrortoberfest Day 29 – Rubber (2010)
I have been wanting to watch this movie ever since I first heard about it a few years ago. It sounded just ridiculous enough that I figured they had to […]
Horrortoberfest Day 28 – Tales from the Crypt: Ritual (2002)
This week’s movie is actually an adaptation of the old 1943 Val Lewton classic I Walked With a Zombie from RKO. The movie centers around Alice, a disgraced New York […]
Urban Horror Week – Final Thoughts
This past week we looked at “Urban horror” movies or movies that generally focus on those in poor neighborhoods that have non-white protagonists. The first real thing to note for […]
Horrortoberfest Day 27 – Dead Heist (2007)
I really hate to end this week with a terrible movie but then that’s the majority of what I’ve been watching anyway. Dead Heist is about a bunch of street […]
Horrortoberfest Day 26 – Gangs of the Dead (2006)
Of all the movies that I’ve reviewed this week, this one has definitely been the only one that managed to have a ghetto setting but not be entirely focused on […]
Horrortoberfest Day 25 – Barrio Tales (2012)
Today’s movie rounds out the last of the anthology horror movies for the week. This one is a little special since it actually focuses on Mexican people and stories rather […]
Horrortoberfest Day 24 – Hood of Horror (2006)
This movie is what happens when you take Tales from the Hood and replace Spike Lee with Snoop Dogg. This movie follows three different stories while loosely having a thread […]
Horrortoberfest Day 23 – Tales from the Hood (1995)
I’m almost breaking my rule of “No movies I’ve already seen before” with this one. I have pretty much seen the whole movie before but it was always in bits […]
Horrortoberfest Day 22 – The People Under the Stairs (1991)
I had only ever seen maybe a couple minutes of the first part of this movie before and I’m glad I could finally sit down and watch it. I love […]
Horrortoberfest Day 21 – Blackenstein (1973)
Today marks the start of the “Urban” horror week where we take a look at movies that aren’t all about white people. This movie takes place right in the heart […]
Horrortoberfest Captive Week – Final Thoughts
I went into Captive Horror Week with very low expectations. When I thought of that type of movie, my mind immediately went to the “torture porn” or Saw sequels/rip-offs that […]
Horrortoberfest Day 20 – Die (2010)
I’ll be honest, the only reason I picked this movie was because I’m a huge gamer nerd and the idea of a dice based horror movie appealed to that side […]
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