Ex Machina (2015) The Plot: Upon winning an employee lottery at the largest software company in the world, Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson), a young programmer, gets an all-expenses-paid visit to the isolated pseudo-futuristic home of the company’s founder and president, Nathan (Oscar Isaac). Before long, Caleb realizes that his reward is far from a comfortable vacation…
Baddie – Convoluted horror plots. Lesson – Pick one thing. ONE. The Lazarus Effect had a lot of promise. A contemporary Frankenstein, or all the Lovecraftian implications of Re-animator. It has a stellar cast with American Horror Story‘s Evan Peters, Community‘s Donald Glover, the ethereal Olivia Wilde, and The Mindy Project‘s Mark Duplass. The methodology was solid.…
Did anyone read my review of Much Ado About Murder? I published it several months ago. Let me tell you, friends, that is a truly great movie. I only bring it up now because I have a strange feeling that this week’s article is going to be a somewhat similar rant/rave. I’ll just cut right…
Baddie – Demons, you guys! Demons! Lesson – Don’t judge a book by it’s very sculpted cover. This, for the first time in a long time, is a review about how much fun I had in theaters. Oh my god. I have not relished in a movie like this for a long, long, long time.…
Ah, Octoberween. T’was ever a month so splendid as thou art? Yowza. The leaves are falling and gathering in ghostly breezes to follow along the heels of college students late at night and make them think that a witch is coming. Candy is cheap, decorations are expensive, and cereal turns milk into some truly funky…
Rooster Illusion 