Author: Ezra Stead

Despite the immense wealth and fame I’ve garnered in my years at Ruthless Reviews, I still moonlight as a stand-up comic, and one thing I like to do onstage is to ask the audience about their favorite movies.

For his stunning theatrical feature debut, writer/director/editor Curry Barker drew inspiration not directly from the obvious source material of W.W. Jacobs’s classic short story The Monkey’s Paw, but from the now-classic Halloween episode of The Simpsons inspired by it.

It’s Oscar time again, and I’m here to help you all out with my extremely accurate predictions! Shockingly, Amazon’s Ice Cube-starring War of the Worlds is nowhere to be found in the nominations

The hell of doing these lists is all the great movies that have to be left off, to the point where I feel like I’m shitting on all your favorites by not including them, and even slighting those in the lower half of my own list.

Anyone who has spent time around dogs (or cats, for that matter) has undoubtedly observed the way they will sometimes stare riveted at apparently empty spaces with great concentration.