Alright! We’re down to the wire. The semifinalists are (drum roll, except not, because Whiplash is out): Guardians of the Galaxy, The Lego Movie, Selma, and The Grand Budapest Hotel. In conjuncture with popular rule, these four films have beaten out all the others to compete in the last few rounds of voting and by the end…
Well, how about that? Selma defeated Interstellar in the quarterfinal, securing a slot in the semifinal against Guardians of the Galaxy. I wonder who’s gonna win that. You’ll have a chance to vote for that in a couple days, but first let’s determine the winner of our last quarterfinal to see who will face off against The Lego Movie for…
IMDb reckons about 9400 movies came out in 2014. By my count, under 100 of them might be worth seeing. The fact of the matter remains that people make bad movies. People make a lot of bad movies. In fact, most of what you run into out there in the great wide world of cinema…
Perhaps to nobody’s great surprise, The Lego Movie beat out John Wick, securing a spot in the semifinals to face off against either Edge of Tomorrow or The Grand Budapest Hotel. Should be an interesting final four, at any rate. Will miss you, John Wick, you fought valiantly and shot a bunch of dudes, but…
We’re now well on our way through the quarterfinals with Round 10, Round 2 of Sequence 2… let’s just call it Round 10. One of the remaining seven movies will take the no doubt coveted title of Rooster Illusion’s Best Film of 2014, to be determined by your votes, dear reader. Voice your opinions! Such…
The preliminary sequence of voting is now finished and we’re down to our final eight films: Whiplash, The Lego Movie, Guardians of the Galaxy, John Wick, Interstellar, Edge of Tomorrow, Selma and The Grand Budapest Hotel. At this time I’d just like to thank everyone for taking part, and urge you all to continue to participate. By…
In my admittedly limited experience, Netflix’s original series are pretty hit or miss. They’ve gone on record saying that they want to become HBO faster than HBO can become Netflix, which means that like HBO, much of what they churn out is merely soft-core porn with high production values and sub-Athenian political intrigue. I’ve always…
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