A lot of really crappy movies came out in the ‘80s. A lot of really great movies came out in the ‘80s. A fair number of movies came out in the ‘80s that were somewhere between crappy and great. And then. And then there was this week’s movie. This week’s movie is just… it’s just……
It was a big year for Rooster Illusion: we dove headfirst into the salty depths of podcasting and explored long-form writing in addition to our continued ass-kickery in the realm of more traditional movie and show reviews. Our second annual March Madness bracket was a success, in that a bunch of you guys voted and…
I feel like I ought to begin this article with a full disclaimer. Listen. I saw Snow White and the Huntsman when it came out in 2012 and found it perfectly adequate, if entirely forgettable entertainment. Did it need a sequel? It did not. And yet, somehow, a sequel was made, and four years later…
To be honest, I’m not sure how to feel about The Good Dinosaur. I really adore Pixar films, and this movie has everything all Pixar films have: a unique setting, not normally sentient beings having sentience, some emotional tragedy, and all the Pixar/Disney tropes one can think of. However, this is the problem with…
I have a pretty strong idea of what I think the future ought to look like, and a lot of it comes from the club scenes from Purple Rain. Like the music of the music legend at its center, the movie Purple Rain is a lot of different things brought together: it’s in turn a feature length music…
Yesterday was William Shakespeare’s birthday. More importantly (this year), it was his 400th deathday. I feel like we ought to commemorate those more often. I guess it’s considered more cheerful and positive to do birthdays… yeah, fair enough. IMDb reckons there have been over one thousand films and TV shows based on Shakespeare’s works, including…
Baddie: Probably the flesh eating virus. Lesson: Never ignore the creepy locals. If you’ve been reading /horror [SciFridays], you may know how I feel about Eli Roth. Hint: The feeling is not warm fuzzies. However, when a director has the gall to remake his own campy horror movie not even fifteen years later as a…
