The Wolf of Wall Street (2013): The Plot: Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a total scumbag. His main goal in life is to get rich, and wouldn’t ya know it, that’s a goal you can accomplish by working on Wall Street and being a total scumbag. The film briefly follows Belfort’s rise from greedy kid…
Happy 2014, y’all! You may have seen Rooster Illusion’s New Year’s Resolutions, promising lots of awesome changes, including merchandise, decent author bios, and maybe (just maybe) ten times the posts. Well, we don’t like to dillydally, so we’re getting started ASAP. I know this article isn’t getting posted until January 5th, which may not seem…
I had never heard of Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus and 2012 (2013) until I read BuzzFeed’s 44 Movies You Probably Missed in 2013. Then I noticed it was on Netflix. Then I had my first vacation in many, many months and decided to come back and do a guest piece for Rooster Illusion. Not only…
If I caught you up relatively early this morning (very early if you are on the west coast) and you missed out on some earth-shattering comedy this last calendar year, you’ll thank me for this review. The well known Brit comedy duo of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost–You may know them Shawn of the Dead,…
Baddie – That good old college try. Lesson – I’m adding Russia to my list of dangerous places, right after Australia. Devil’s Pass is a found-footage style thriller about a Russian expedition team that went missing and the college kids who go to solve the mystery. Naturally, it ends pretty badly. We start with the…
Another year has passed. We’ve laughed, we’ve cried, we’ve watched a bunch of movies. We have written about those movies with the passion of a thousand typewriting monkeys. We’re older, wiser, cooler, harder, better, faster, and, yes, stronger. And it’s all thanks to you, the reader. Well, not all of it. Most of it is…
Well, Christmas has come and gone and 2014 is rapidly approaching, and with it Oscar season. Hooray. Like the summer with its myriad blockbusters, this time of year kind of dictates what movies we are and are not going to write about. That can be nice, by the way, not having to think really hard…
