Even though I watch Elf (2003) at least once a year and have gotten quite sick of it, it still holds as one of my favorite Christmas movies. It’s hilarious, well-written, and conveniently for me has some sneaky ways of incorporating alcohol. Grab a flask of your favorite syrup and a cup of coffee and join…
Well, it looks like Rooster Illusion is finally getting into the Christmas spirit. Although, when you think about it, it’s kind of like we’ve been in the Christmas spirit this whole time, what with all the free reviews and such. It’s the gift that keeps on giving. Hogfather (2007): The Plot: When the Hogfather (Shend)…
In 2003, the third and final installment of The Lord of the Rings trilogy came out. I was… [pause for math]… eleven years old. My parents took my brothers and me out of school (the last day before Christmas vacation) and drove us to the nearest city to see the movie on a massive screen…
Baddie – I can’t say. It’s a secret. Lesson – TV shows can do scary! I’m breaking tradition like crazy this week. I took the rulebook, and I threw it on the ground. I stomped on it a little for good measure, too. It started, like all good things in life, with peer pressure. In…
“America’s not a country. It’s just a business.” –Brad Pitt earns his Junior Cynic badge Killing Them Softly (2012): The Plot: When two dumb criminals (Scoot McNairy and Ben Mendelsohn) rob a mob-run card game, hit man Jackie Cogan (Brad Pitt) gets called in to clean things up. Also, it’s 2008, and organized crime is…
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls put your hands together for… Oscar Season! Oh yeah, it’s good stuff. Rooster Illusion is reviewing Lincoln and Argo; Tuesday Zone’s got its eye on Silver Linings Playbook and Amour; Zero Dark Thirty, The Hobbit, Django Unchained and Les Mis have not yet come out. Well, I’ll be damned…
I went into this movie really wanting to like it, and hoping that it lived up to the praise that my old Canadian Studies professors had heaped onto it when I was in college. Citizen Gangster ended up being just about the best you could hope for out of a relatively low budget independent film;…
