Baddie: Meddling non-mutants, I guess? Lesson: Turn off the light! I first saw a trailer for Digging Up The Marrow when I saw It Follows. I was immediately intrigued. Posed as a mockumentary of sorts, Digging follows director Adam Green into an adventure best described as ‘monsters are real oh god.’ The movie opens with a series of interviews featuring…
10 years ago this week, Batman Begins was released in theaters in the US, leaving no small impact on the movie industry, the filmgoing public, and on a 13 year old kid in the Philadelphia suburbs. I could write pages on the movies’ cultural impact; how the one-two punch of Batman Begins and Casino Royale altered the ways studios…
Previous Installments Gosh, it seems like a long time since I did one of these… probably because it’s been about ten months. After last year’s intensive Summer of Shakespeare, I guess I needed to take a break. Well, I’m back, and not entirely in a good mood this time. Why? Because… Anonymous (2011) The Plot:…
One afternoon when I was really young I accidentally slammed my finger in a door. Now, to a five-year-old, this was a tragedy, and I cried and dramatically stated that my finger would fall off and that the world was coming to an end. My parents assured me that this was not the case, and they…
I have just completed a pretty long journey. Granted, it would have been much shorter if I hadn’t started out by heading two and a half thousand miles in the opposite direction of my final destination, but what are you going to do? The important thing is that I have at long last (after two…
Baddie – Talking. Lesson – Seriously, shut up. After weeks of a time-related hiatus, Scifridays is back! Okay, technically I came back last week with my brand new column Thrillhers, where I’ll be taking a look at female-directed/written horror movies, something I’ve been wanting to explore further for a while now. But not this week, no,…
There is something undeniably appealing about 80s pop culture. Putting aside, for a moment, the complicated sociopolitical landscape of the 1980s, it is a decade that has been embraced purely on the level its cultural output. It’s easy to understand why: so much of it is the epitome of awesome, or at least of awesome…
Rooster Illusion 