Ugh. The semester. It has started up again. Sigh. Well, it’s my last one. Alright, to prep myself for the impending semester I’ve been watching quite a few uplifting movies so far this year. I saw Walter Mitty and I re-watched Frozen. Also The Hunt, but… yeah, whatever. I’ve got another uplifting movie for y’all:…
If you’re like me, and you might be, you’ve been waiting VERY patiently for Season 3 of Sherlock to begin. If you’re also like me, you might have myriad tea strewn about your apartment. So, in the vein of Shelley’s beer/wine pairings, I present the most British of drinks…tea. Tea review to follow the episode…
I thought I’d get into the spirit of List Week here on Rooster Illusion by delving into one of my favorite sub-genres of anything ever–musical SciFi. Now, when I say SciFi I do mean a pretty wide range of things, but, here we go. 1. Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along-Blog (2008) Do you have 45 minutes? How…
This week on Justified: Picking off almost exactly where the last episode left off, Raylan is preparing to actually enjoy himself with his house guest (Amy Smart), when a threatening baseball-bat-wielding chap interrupts things. Oh, bother. I hate when that happens. Raylan sorts him out and deduces that this thug was likely sent by the…
There’s some good news this week: This is our Season Finale. Even better news, I’m not as disenchanted with Sleepy Hollow as I was when The Following ended. So, here we go. 1.5 hours into the great beyond. So, to recap: Ichabod Crane, Revolutionary Spy/Professor, has been re-animated to help stop the Apocalypse. He used to be bound by…
Now that the transition period is over, with Archer and the gang successfully out of ISIS and trying to sort out their lives, the beginning of what will undoubtedly be a long series of unfortunate events with familiar past characters began to rain down with Monday night’s episode. We catch up with Mallory Archer trying…
While legitimate film critics are busy with their “Best Of” and “Oscar Prediction” lists, Rooster Illusion is looking inward, digging deep to find the source of his power. These are the films that speak to Rooster Illusion on a deep, spiritual level, infusing his blood with stardust and driving him to reach new creative heights.…
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