Horror can be anything. Goofy, political, dramatic, and everything in between. But the best horror, is, at its core, human. We (by “we” I mean “everyone but me”) are all going to die, and death comes in myriad forms. We meet it in myriad ways. Personally, I hope to go out laughing, but I have…
There are precious few moments in 20th century pop culture that have been explored as widely and deeply in books, magazines, and films as the ten years during which The Beatles were performing and making music together. The basic arc of their story, from ragtag Liverpudlian club band to pop music innovators, has been told,…
You know how sometimes you see a trailer that combines so many perfectly good elements in the most spectacularly off-the-wall, inventive, horrible ways, and you think to yourself, “Well, surely that will be a good movie.” Okay, maybe “good” is the wrong word. Maybe even “movie” is a little too generous, but I will not…
Though it wasn’t the first 3D platform game, Super Mario 64 tends to get talked about as though it was, and with good reason. While other platform games preceded Mario’s foray into the third dimension (90s Kid icon and forsaken Sony mascot Crash Bandicoot beat Mario to release in America by two weeks), none are as fondly remembered, are as…
A friend of mine—a wise lady of high repute—once said, with reference to Andy Samberg, “If you don’t like him, you’re just jealous.” To quote another such lady, “Haters gonna hate hate hate hate hate.” Comedy is a delicate and difficult thing, and no matter how good you are at it, you will never please…
Like the title says, I just watched the absolute worst animated movie of all time. I can’t think of anything worse in terms of writing or animation. This terrible movie involves food-related characters in a supermarket, the battle for their existence, and an inappropriate amount of sexual innuendos. Oh, you think I’m talking about the…
When you get right down to it, the success of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise is nothing short of improbable. Created by a duo of New England indie comic creators in the early 80s, an offbeat style parody of Frank Miller comics with an initial print run of 3,000 issues went from underground sensation to…
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