SciFridays: “Devil’s Pass” (2013)

Baddie – That good old college try. Lesson – I’m adding Russia to my list of dangerous places, right after Australia. Devil’s Pass is a found-footage style thriller about a Russian expedition team that went missing and the college kids who go to solve the mystery. Naturally, it ends pretty badly. We start with the…

SciFridays: Year-End Roundup

Baddie – Low-personal motivation. Lesson – I suck at making lists. I thought I might end this year in movies with some general thoughts/mini reviews/reflections, since this was my first full year as a columnist. We started this year with Piranha: 3D and ended with the odd Finnish Rare Exports. We watched a lot of Australian…

A Very Rooster Illusion Christmas Special

Let me start off by saying that the title of this post is incredibly misleading. It is, one might even say, a lie. “Christmas Special” suggests that you’ll see familiar characters—i.e. the writers on this blog—celebrating the holidays or Learning an Important Lesson. This isn’t that. You could also be forgiven for thinking that the…

SciFridays: Rare Exports (2010)

Baddie: I mean, I guess…uh…Santa? That seems wrong. Lesson: Finnish men are crazy. Merry Christmas, you guys! I, for one, am really looking forward to heading home and taking an actual vacation! Grad school is the pits! Yayyyyyyyy! This week, you ALMOST had to sit through another awful Christmas Movie like last year (strange Danish…

Second Breakfast: The Desolation of Smaug

In 1937, the world at large was introduced to a little creature, a hobbit named Bilbo Baggins, who lived in a hole in a ground. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down…