In a summer of unwilling heroes and cynical detachment, Guillermo Del Toro’s Mechs vs. Monsters movie is a breath of fresh air, a shot of adrenaline, and a hi-five from your inner child all at once. Pacific Rim (2013): The Plot: Fifteen years ago, Kaiju (Japanese for “giant beast” began emerging from an inter-dimensional rift…
Baddie – Once again, horny teenagers. Lesson – Twists are not the answer. As you may or may not know, a lot of the movies I watch for this blog come from Netflix. Some of them sit in my Instant Queue for a long time. This is one of those movies. “Fear Island” is unique…
I’ll mention the Previously this week only because it included something that we haven’t seen since the last few episodes of Season 2: the death of Harry Morgan. We already knew Harry had killed himself, but not quite why. When Dexter kills someone in Doakes’ presence, Doakes says, “Stay away from me.” Dexter’s heard someone say…
Part 1, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8 Shakespeare! Always fun. Unsurprisingly, more of his plays have been adapted into film than the works of any other writers. Hundreds of movies site Shakespeare for the story. IMDb gives him 955 writing credits and counting. So…why do people keep going back to Shakespeare? It’s all been…
Baddie – Honestly, a huge shark. Lesson – Australian movies hold no hope. I’m in a shark kinda mood. So I picked out a movie to watch – Blue Steel. Then I re-read the synopsis and realized I’ve already seen it. So I resorted to my second choice, The Reef, because who doesn’t want to watch the ‘scariest…
I wanted to take the time to spend this intro blurb talking about how the show as a whole fares. You’ll notice that however accurate the graph above is, it doesn’t include Season 7. I’m obsessed with Dexter, so I’m a little biased. The general opinion I’ve seen online though is that Season 7 is…
You know how every so often an indie movie will come out with a good cast and appropriately quirky trailer and you think, “Hm, that looks pretty good,” and then, because you don’t live in a city, it never comes to theaters anywhere near you and over the course of a year you completely forget…
