A few months ago I reviewed the somewhat popular Oscar-nominated based-on-a-true-story film Wild, starring Reese Witherspoon as a woman whose life has become so clumsily screwed-up that she must embark upon an epic hike of self-discovery. Despite the best efforts of the film’s director, I kind of liked Wild. I bring it up now, because…
Baddie – Low-personal motivation. Lesson – I suck at making lists. I thought I might end this year in movies with some general thoughts/mini reviews/reflections, since this was my first full year as a columnist. We started this year with Piranha: 3D and ended with the odd Finnish Rare Exports. We watched a lot of Australian…
Baddie: The French! Lesson: If someone is murdering your friends and you don’t know who the murderer is, it’s probably you. OR IS IT. I KNOW, it’s November. Technically. I actually scheduled this thing to post at 11:59 so it would count for Octoberween, because, y’know, I like Octoberween. I’m gonna miss it. Next week,…
Baddie: All men, regardless. Apparently. Lesson: Sometimes a sleepy movie never really wakes up. Ahh, the marathon of outback horror continues. (For those newcomers to the column, all of Octoberween, SciFridays will be reviewing Australian horror films to honor the delightful movies from that delightful continent). The film opens with some very annoying papyrus subtitles…
Baddie – Production. Lesson – Spending some time planning your movie is probably a good decision. Okay, so I’m on a shark kick. I like sharks. And look at the shark on this cover. It’s insane. It has like, a detachable jaw. And it’s called ‘Shark Week’ because they don’t give a damn if it’s…
Baddie – Circumstance. Lesson – Try not to get trapped in a grocery store with a shark. When we were in college, James and I made a lot of jokes about weird monster hybrids. One of these was ‘Sharkgurt: Lactose isn’t the only dangerous thing in the dairy isle’. So you can imagine my delight…
Baddie – A wendigo! A tunnel! A rabbit! A leech! The water! The tunnel again! Lesson – Seriously, the Outback will MESS you UP. ***CAUTION*** This post contains some graphic images (because they were too awesome not to share) but it’s probably the goriest post I’ve done. Oh hey! An Australian movie! Readers, you may…
Rooster Illusion 