If I caught you up relatively early this morning (very early if you are on the west coast) and you missed out on some earth-shattering comedy this last calendar year, you’ll thank me for this review. The well known Brit comedy duo of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost–You may know them Shawn of the Dead,…
I’m an aspiring economics teacher with a passion for individualism and a commitment to being a life-long learner. I juggle my hobbies of movie-watching with my Graduate studies in Social Studies education, creative fiction writing, model building, sports watching, and personal pet projects in the economics. Despite all this, I still manage to be a…
One of the key arguments of historians and history teachers everywhere is that the only way to keep from repeating the mistakes of the past is to teach the lessons of them. If history isn’t taught, future generations will go into the world ignorant of the disastrous consequences of idealism. The Wave, a German re-make…
In a world where found footage films have finally worn out their grace period of originality and creativity, we now find ourselves repeating the same strange errors over and over again. The earliest found footage films, shot either in documentary or casual hand-camera style, were conducive to effective horror films, in an attempt to make…
It may come off as vaguely ironic to some that a column named after food from a pig would be the one to cover a Jewish horror film. That’s fully understandable, but I hope that you’ll allow me this one indulgence. This film caught my curiosity, t was on Netflix streaming just a year after…
We’re taking a small break from social relevance this week, considering I was actually able to get to a real in-theater movie this week. It’s not easy, when you consider most of my funds and time are going towards post-college education, but I was able to make an exception for James Wan’s latest horror flick,…
Put yourself in Southern Texas, in the shoes of an average Joe retired welder who stumbles across millions of dollars in a bag after a drug exchange goes wrong. Sounds like a pretty good place to be, right? Well, now take off those shoes and slip in a crazed psychopathic killer with an uncanny tracking…
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