Guy Ritchie’s first real attempt to try to combine his signature gangster film with a somewhat more purposeful meaning was met with severe backlash from many critics, many of whom considered the final product to be “disjointed” or “pretentious.” It received a dismal 17% on rotten tomatoes. Ironically, big name film critics are some of…
HEY GUESS WHAT IT’S SHARK WEEK. ALSO I HAVE TWITTER NOW. @SciFridays As you may or may not know, I’ve watched a lot of shark movies. So many, in fact, that it was kind of difficult to pick a new one for beloved ‘Shark Week’ on Discovery Channel this week. In fact, Shark Movies I’ve…
Disclaimer: If you watch Dexter, you know what a foul mouth Debra Morgan has. Well, it’s rubbed off on me and I might speak accordingly. Remember what a clusterfuck it was when retired Special Agent Frank Lundy died only four episodes into Season 4? I had heard that the fourth season of Dexter was one of the best…
Part 1, Part 2, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8 So, admittedly, I’m going through a bit of a Shakespeare phase. By that I mean that my current summer project is reading all of his plays that I haven’t yet read. Having completed twenty, I only have seventeen left, so I feel pretty good about that. Along…
It has been interesting to me, to see the condition of television programs rapidly deteriorate in this country over my short life. Within hundreds of channels, I have found only one television show worth watching regularly for the past five years (Breaking Bad). This absence of quality is a product of modern culture’s changing interests…
Baddie – Cannibals! Lesson – Man, don’t trust Dolce & Gabbana models with guns. And now for something completely different! I feel like Sharknado really burned me out on creature flicks, and then The Reef was a great transition into people-type horror flicks, so this week I followed up Fear Island with Elfie Hopkins: Cannibal Hunter. And let me tell…
Americans like Japanese stuff, but we seem to have weird aversion to the Japanese. It’s not that we don’t like them; we’re just uncomfortable with foreign concepts. It’s easier to ease an audience into a different culture through the filter of a thirty-to-forty-something white North American heterosexual male, or TTFSWNAHM. At least, this is what…
Rooster Illusion 