Ghoulies, AKA The Toilet Monsters, is a subtle Star Wars rip off with a a great novelty death and a young Mariska Hargitay.
2014 Academy Awards- Devon’s Bets
March 2, 2014 by
2014 Academy Awards- Devon’s Bets Category: Best Picture Nominees: American Hustle, Captain Phillips, Dallas Buyer’s Club; Gravity; Her; Nebraska; Philomena; 12 Years a Slave; The Wolf of Wall Street Devon’s Pick: 12 Years A Slave, because it’s the subject matter that the Academy goes for (see: Lincoln, Crash). Her, though brilliant, is too cruel, […]
Into the Abyss
February 27, 2014 by
Film Title
Into the Abyss (2011)Synopsis
Capital punishment and the will of God
Director
Werner HerzogCast
Werner Herzog
Michael Perry
Jason Burkett
Delbert Burkett
Melyssa Burkett
Richard Lopez
Damon Hall
A documentary by Werner Herzog “The fact that a believer is happier than a Skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober man.”-George Bernard Shaw This documentary centers on death row inmates in Huntsville, Texas, the state that leads the nation in executions, […]
Carrie (2013) Review
February 25, 2014 by
Film Title
Carrie (2013)Synopsis
Chris Farley’s interviewer from SNL directs his first movie.
Director
Some Asshole (who happens to be female)Cast
Chloe Moretz
Julianne Moore
et cetera
Facepalm: The Motion Picture
Pompeii (2014 version)
February 22, 2014 by
You either want to enjoy tens of thousands people dying in a fiery holocaust, or you don’t.
L. Ron Mexico Discovers Noah’s Diary He Kept on the Ark and Translates it for the Internet.
February 21, 2014 by
The other day, I was hanging out in the swamp, just trying to exaggerate my rural working-class persona and get a reality TV deal, and I stumbled upon a dusty book inside an old pile of wooden wreckage. As it turns out, the book is actually Noah’s diary from his time on the ark! Now […]
The ABCs of Game Journalism
February 19, 2014 by
Adclicks: The alpha and the omega, the end all/be all of the profession. This is why the usual rags update a hundred times a day, about anything that has even the flimsiest of connections to video games. You may think you got into games writing to share your love of the medium with a like-minded […]
Happy People
February 18, 2014 by
Film Title
Happy People: A Year in the TaigaSynopsis
Subsistence trapping at the most brutal level.
Director
Werner HerzogCast
Werner Herzog
Gennady Soloviev
Nikolay Siniaev
A documentary by Werner Herzog I just finished watching the 9-part series: Alaska:The Last Frontier and it was great. This series showcases the lives of the second and third generation Kilchers, who for decades have been homesteaders on the rugged Alaskan frontier. These people are impressive and quite hard-core as they fish, hunt, drive cattle, […]
Robocop 2014
February 13, 2014 by
Film Title
Robocop (2014)Synopsis
Pretty much like the original but less funny, less violent and with political themes brought to the forefront. Box office gold!
Director
José PadilhaCast
Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman, Michael Keaton, Abbie Cornish, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Samuel L. Jackson
Tagline: We’ve got the future under control. Entire Story in fewer words than are in this sentence right here. A more family friendly Robocop is more friendly with his family Corpse Count: I got about 28, though there was some tasing mixed in and it was sometimes hard to tell. Novelty Death: Clutching at straws […]
August: Osage County
February 10, 2014 by
If I wanted to see a bunch of drunken, drug-abusing, incestuous, adulterous, hypocrites shouting at each other while breaking crockery, I’d attend a family reunion.
