When Jurassic Park hit theaters in June of 1993, I had just finished the third grade. Watching Sam Neill, Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum run from the perils of genetically created dinosaurs was quite possibly the biggest thing I’d ever seen on screen – both in terms of filmmaking and T-Rex stomps. The ripples…
The horror genre is tricky terrain to traverse. Often cited for being vapid and derivative, truly great horror films are hard to come by, which is understandable given the steady hodgepodge of remakes and reboots abound. But every so often a Babadook-type comes down the line – a horror film with integrity, characters we actually…
When we once again meet our beloved Avengers, they are already assembled and stalwartly storming the hideaway of baddie Baron Wolfgang von Strucker. The item they seek: Loki’s scepter, the beholder of one of the six Infinity Stones (the fourth if you’re counting). The introduction of the heroes takes us on a rollercoaster ride through…
Dan Harmon is an asshole. He’s an obsessive, blunt, Godzilla type who stomps all over his business and personal relationships like a monster lighting Tokyo afire. He’s been fired by Sarah Silverman, feuded with Chevy Chase, and was even canned from his own show, Community. He’s a rough around the edges type who has no…
If you haven’t seen The Skeleton Twins by now, you should. It’s on Blu-ray, it’s fantastic, and it was one of my favorite movies from last year. The flick stars Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader as fraternal twins who haven’t spoken in 10 years. Their lives are individually a mess, life brings them back together,…
Watching the 1952 Best Picture winner The Greatest Show on Earth is just like going to the circus – which is a lot of fun to watch on screen if you don’t think about all that animal cruelty and junk. (Wouldn’t it have been great to live in the 50’s when you didn’t have to worry…
The Academy released their official nominations for the 2015 Oscars this morning for what will be their 87th ceremony, airing February 22nd on ABC. If you want a full list of who’s in line to maybe grab some gold, click here. Rather than go down the list and commenting like every other asshole on the…
We are in a Golden Age of television…of antiheroes, zombies, clones, cable, and most importantly, streaming. Thanks to Hulu Plus, Netflix, Amazon Prime, and an ungodly amount of others, almost everything we’d ever need or want to see is available in just a few clicks of a button or taps on a screen. But with…
Watching The English Patient is sort of how I’d imagine being a fly on the wall of a hospital room. The burn victim is alive, but not very well, and every time you admittedly can’t hear what the poor bastard is saying, you sort of feel guilty until you realize that it’s kind of a…
There’s only one person in life you should worry about disappointing. It’s not your helicopter parents or your 92-year-old grandmother or your husband/wife/Siamese fighting fish. It’s yourself. There’s nothing worse in this life than letting yourself down. Write that in a Hallmark card or in your diary or some shit. In September of 2011, I…