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...
