February 2012
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Review: Chronicle
The found footage movie has had quite a lot of success for itself over the past three years. Despite its roots firmly stemming from 1999’s the Blair Witch Project, this type of movie really didn’t come into the mind of the popular conscience until 2009’s Paranormal Activity, a movie that made audiences terrified and producers tons...
January 2012
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Review: The Grey
Liam Neeson’s career has been gone through a rather confusing track over the past decade or so. Though he has been around since the late seventies in some incarnation or another, Neeson really came into the public consciousness with 1996’s Schindler’s List and 1999’s Star Wars Episode I: the Phantom...
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So the new Resident Evil trailer is basically a...
You know, this is just typical Hollywood, whoring out movies and bringing down an entire art form so that they can… no. You know what? I don’t even fucking care anymore, this is hilarious. As if this series wasn’t enough of a joke already it looks like Sony will be using the new entry in this bizarrely popular abomination of a seires to pimp such products as the Vita and their...
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Review: Contraband
When I started doing reviews I was concerned about running into a problem that a lot of unknown, new-timer movie reviewers ran into: I would only review movies I like. If one was to go through the first few reviews I have done, the lowest score I’ve given out has been a 4/5. To try and make myself a bit more credible I have decided...
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Review: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy was first released in the middle of Bondmania, the first real explosion of spy-oriented literature. Despite being able to be cast into the same broad spectrum of fiction, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy bears about as much resemblance to the stories of James Bond as ET does to Skyline. The flashy and handsome bond is...
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Today In: Well that's Interesting
A claymation penguin reenactment of John Carpenter’s phenomenal horror movie the Thing. It is adorable, gruesome, and hilarious.
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Top Ten Movies of 2011
Well, it’s nice to be back. The holidays are nice and all, but during all that rest and relaxation it appears that I forgot about this little soapbox of mine. Considering that I am now up to 7 subscribers, one billionth of the human population mind you, I feel as if I should keep the content flowing.
With the end of the year comes a literal flood of top ten lists. From the top ten music...
December 2011
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Today In: Well that's Interesting
The New York Times did a photoshoot/video series where a bunch of actors dressed up as famous movie villiains. Rooney Mara dressed up as Alex DeLarge is kind of awesome. Ryan Gosling and George Clooney are in it too.
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Review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
So to start off this review I must get something off my chest: I have not read the books. Well, to be absolutely truthful I have read the first twenty pages of the first book in a well meaning but ultimately futile attempt to read the book before the movie came out. For fans of the book, or at least the first twenty pages of the first book, don’t worry because the first...
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Retrospective: Dexter Season 6
Warning, spoilers below.
Dexter, with its engaging plot lines and characters that have successfully propelled it season after season, has consistently been one of my favorite shows on television today. Some may even call me a Dexter apologist or fanboy, given that I like the slower and more character oriented seasons 3 and 5 just as much as I enjoyed the breakneck and twisty seasons...
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War of the Words: Prose vs. Screenwriting
Writing is one of the more difficult arts, requiring and understanding of grammar, word
relations, and sentence structure to create anything half worthy of publication. One needs to have a mastery of both their own ideas and the finer minutiae of the English language to properly transmit their ideas into the mind of another person. Stephen King put it well when he said that ‘writing is...
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Survival of the Fittest: The Tricky Art of...
At least once a week we have a movie coming out that is some kind of adaptation or another, from this week’s small screen opener Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy to the wildly popular Transformers series that bombard our senses every summer, movie makers apparently cannot get enough of adapting things. Adaptation brings with it certain advantages, like a built in fan-base and cheap marketing by...
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Today In: Well that's Interesting
Wow, looks like the kinect is destined for more than terrible mini game collections after all.
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Literature's Great Minds on the Topic of... →
A nice article here, really interesting read. I’m hoping to have another editorial up on Friday, sorry for the lack of content.
November 2011
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Retrospective: Walking Dead Season 2 First Half
Starting with the X-files in 1993 it seemed like everyone wanted a piece of the pie when it came to big-budget genre television. The show was not only a big hit, but also something of a cultural phenomenon. The X-files had enough crazy mythology to keep the rabid fan-base of a cult hit satisfied for seven of its nine seasons, and strong relatable characters to reel in the normal...
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Review: The Descendants
Oscar season is finally upon us and with it comes a plethora of ‘Oscar bait’ films who all waited quietly through the explosion and cliche filled summer blockbuster season for their time to shine. ‘Oscar bait’ films can tend to be hit or miss, some of them turn out to be brilliant displays of film-making from old and new directors alike as the talents of the...
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Review: 13 Assassins
Japanese cinema can be a pretty damn scary and intimidating thing for us Westerners. The palpability of Japanese movies for us in the ‘States has been a mixed bag over the last decade, for every Ringu, a movie whose remake went on to make over a hundred million dollars on our shores, you have a Big Man Japan, a movie so filled to the brim with...
Retro Review: About Schmidt (2002)
I don’t know if this move made me feel more upset over the sad, depressive life of the title character or the fact that I saw much more of Kathy Bates than any human being, including Kathy Bates, should have.
About Schmidt is a 2002 dramedy starring the ever excellent Jack Nicholson as the title character Warren Schmidt, a recent widower...
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Breaking Breakfast: Symbolism, Serial Killers, and...
Sorry for anyone who thought, given my ‘punny’ title, that this would have anything to do with Breaking Bad… it doesn’t. I couldn’t write an entire entry on breakfast in Breaking Bad unless I were to go into a deep character study of Walter Jr.
Short version: He’s kind of a prick
Instead this...
#College
So you are in college right, that’s just great. You have a bright beautiful future ahead of you, filled with money and open doors. Or at least keep that mentality in mind and never look at the news, and you may actually make it into the real world OK.
For those of us in science related majors we enjoy the comfort of future job security, but fear the difficult classes lying before us. As...
Today In: Well that's Interesting
Ok, so it’s not really from today, but here is a video from a September TED presentation about the relationship between television and moral values. Its an incredibly interesting, and not too long video. Fun fact: My brother did a large sum of the research for this video.
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Welcome One and All.
For a long time I have wanted a small soap box where I can speak my mind on the internet and a few people will read it. I have considered a blog for some time, and figured that now would be the best time to begin my tumblr adventure. Here you can read my thoughts on film, television, video games, literature, college, and life in general. I will work hard to publish one longer editorial a week...
