https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A8ygTdtRfw Blood is coming, bleh. –Not the Editor (?) 2014 marks the 40th anniversary of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the acclaimed horror film by Tobe Hooper (Poltergeist, Invaders of Mars, Spontaneous Combustion). The story is simple: five teenagers on a weekend getaway run out of gas on the road. They find an old, abandoned house…
The Internet has rejoiced in recent days due to a mash-up war of Easter eggs of epic proportions. After Batman v. Superman director Zack Synder tweeted pictures of actor Henry Cavill from Man of Steel wielding a lightsaber and Jedi robe, as well as a Stormtrooper being arrested by Gotham police, J.J. Abrams, director of the…
The night I saw As Above, So Below, I left the theater at 11:34. I was suddenly reminded of third grade and how much fun it was to make words on a cheap calculator. All I had to do was turn a calculator upside down, and 11:34 becomes ‘hell’. And, as every 3rd Grader did…
Walking out of the theater after Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, I was struck by something—an assault on my ears, and I don’t mean that in a good way. It wasn’t the juvenile lowbrow humor evident in the quick bonus scene during the credits (it wasn’t funny), it was the song that was playing. The main problem…
Alien (1979) from 20th Century Fox What: After receiving a distress signal in the far-reaches of space, commercial miners are dispatched to investigate. When one of the crew is infected by a parasite, they unwittingly bring aboard the ship a mysterious being that hunts them down one by one. Who: Then relative newcomer Ridley Scott directs one…
There are some actors who you could dress up in paper bags, turn off all the lights, record them singing and dancing to the RENT soundtrack with absolutely no actual dialogue, entitle this fourteen-hour, or however long, makeshift film something condescending like Love or Enlightenment, and I would sit through all fourteen or so hours patiently and say,…
My top is always changing. These kinds of lists are hardest to do because, when attempting to squeeze the best of the best into ten numbers, or even forty or a hundred, you’re bound to leave something out. I watch so many movies, and it was tragically difficult to put them all into a list….
We’ve seen the apocalypse. We’ve seen attacks on Earth’s civilizations by an unknown species, zombies, a third World War that left nations across the globe staggering. Pretty much every form of mass destruction that could befall our little planet has, and yet, here’s another. Starring Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans, Michelle Yeoh, Troy Garity, Hiroyuki Sanada,…
WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD. As a self-proclaimed and certified Newbie, every week it is my goal to throw myself head first into all things sci-fi, specifically peering into some of the most critically acclaimed TV shows and movies! I check out the show in pure tabula rasa fashion, with typically nada knowledge about the premise and letting…
WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD! We’ve all contemplated it at one point or another, tossed the idea back and forth in our minds. You know the one, the concept that this beautiful world in which we’re living is, in actuality, an elaborate fabrication. It’s that eerie suspicion that something this complex, this intricate, couldn’t possibly be real….
I recently watched Peter Hyam’s End of Days (1999). If you have not seen it, you now have homework. It stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, so what does that tells us kids? Guns. Explosions. Him saving someone. I’ve never been an action kind of girl, but for some reason, good ol’ Schwarzy has been a staple in…
Sometimes I feel like a hoarder. Not in the traditional sense, mind you, where the garbage in my apartment gets out of control and I’m soon using old boxes that KFC biscuits come in as a hat. No, I’m talking about the kind of hoarding where every single DVD, CD, Videogame, hell, even VHS…
