Nothing Left to Fear on Blu-ray
Dir. Anthony Leonardi III, 2013, 100 min. Rated: R (Image: Aceshowbiz.com) Pastor Dan (James Tupper) moves his family—his wife (Anne Heche) and two teenage daughters—to one of those small towns in the...
View ArticleHalloween, Halloween 4 & Halloween 5 in Theatres NOW
I should probably start a column dedicated to things I wish I could be doing right now, since there are so many fantastic events happening this month. This is one of them: In celebration of the...
View ArticleKlondike Miniseries on Discovery Channel
Dir. Simon Cellan Jones, 2014 (Image: Post-gazette.com) Discovery Channel’s first scripted historical drama, Klondike, premieres Monday, January 20. The miniseries comprises three episodes totalling...
View ArticleIce Soldiers
Dir. Sturla Gunnarsson, 2013, 95 min. Rated: R (Image: Letterboxd.com) Like any spiritually devoid screen-worshipping image junkie I have seen my fair share of “films.” As you know, the celluloid scale...
View ArticleSpinning Plates
Dir. Joseph Levy, 2013, 93 min. (Image: Insidemovies.ew.com) The ever-growing popularity of “reality” television suggests that we are becoming an increasingly voyeuristic culture—or rather, the...
View ArticleOnly Lovers Left Alive
Dir. Jim Jarmusch, 2013, 123 min. Rated: R (Image: Collider.com) It is difficult to find anything to say about Only Lovers Left Alive beyond confirming that what everyone else has said is true: the...
View ArticleFantasy Filmfest Nights 2014: Snowpiercer
Dir. Bong Joon-ho, 2013, 126 min. Rated: R (Image: Firstshowing.net) Director Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer is kind of like if the story of Noah’s ark took place on a large train instead of an ark, and...
View ArticleFantasy Filmfest Nights 2014: The Sacrament
Dir. Ti West, 2013, 95 min. Rated: R (Image: Comingsoon.net) Ti West’s The Sacrament might most efficiently be described as a shallow retelling of the strange and tragic events that occurred in the...
View ArticleFantasy Filmfest Nights 2014: The Green Inferno
Dir. Eli Roth, 2013, 103 min., Rated: R Image: Flickeringmyth.com When a group of college-aged activists crash their plane in the Amazon they are quickly discovered by the tribe they were trying to...
View ArticleWho is Dora the Explorer, Anyway?
Last night while reorganizing this blog I came across a draft of the following post, which I wrote about a year ago when I was living a somewhat isolated life near Frankfurt, Germany. Back then I think...
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