Into the Abyss

Film Title

Into the Abyss (2011)

Synopsis

Capital punishment and the will of God

Director

Werner Herzog

Cast

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

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)

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.

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

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

Film Title

Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

Synopsis

Subsistence trapping at the most brutal level.

Director

Werner Herzog

Cast

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

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 Padilha

Cast

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

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.

The Monuments Men

The question is phrased as: is making great art a thing worth dying for? Clooney’s film goes further: is it worthwhile to risk the lives of young men for the sake of preserving great works of art?

The Counselor Review

Film Title

The Counselor

Synopsis

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Director

Ridley Scott

Cast

Michael Fassbender
Penelope Cruz
Javier Bardem
Brad Pitt
Cameron Diaz

Celebrate the resounding success of the War on Drugs!