Our second to last Halloween movie, Trick or Treats, is from 1982 and it feels like it. The pacing, mostly. Here we go: This isn’t a great movie but I’ve seen a lot worse since I started doing this. It doesn’t do much as a movie: there’s a lot of build up to nothing and …
The next three weeks are going to be hell, so I’m taking a brief break from doing podcast reviews/general posts. As I said last week, “Disconnect.”
This movie is supposed to be a horror/black comedy. It has some darkly funny parts, but… I don’t know that it has enough to qualify for the slash. It takes place all on Halloween, so it’s our second Halloween (the holiday, not series) movie. I didn’t like this one. It seemed promising and kind of …
Disconnect. I’ve noticed something lately when reading just about anything, other than a few well-designed and sleek blogs (which I aim to do, hence the lack of anything obnoxious): the internet is slow, and it’s not my speed. Not my computer or phone speed, nor my internet speed. My computer, phone, tablet, consoles — all …
The first of our holiday-themed horror movies, and the first in the Halloween set of movies. This one starts out with a very Halloween-appropriate opening credits scene. It also starts out letting us know that most of our cast are absolutely obnoxious dickbags. Seriously, they introduce four of the future dead teens with scenes that …
I’m not even sure what to call this, since it isn’t National Novel Writing Month. BUT… in the interest of setting a goal, I’m going to do something like National Novel Writing Month, but in October. As mentioned, this time of year is very inspiring. So hopefully I can be inspired. September was a pretty …
Because I can’t finish watching Rana, Screamers, or this other shitty movie whose name I forgot. Seriously, I looked long and hard for a decent water-monster movie that was also available on either a free service (Tubi, Pluto) or one of the other services I pay for (Amazon + some channels, Netflix, Hulu), and I …
We’ve now reached the interesting crossroads of my year: September, especially the tail end of September, is the worst part of the year almost without fail. Work gets beyond stressful, the school year has started and routines are changing, it just stinks. But then there’s hope: it might not be a hundred degrees in the …
As hinted at last week, young people love to go to the mall during the summer. Especially if there isn’t much else to do. But what happens if… something happens at the shopping mall? Or should I say, the Chopping Mall? This time, rather than a sleepaway camp, or a cabin on a lake, or …
On with the fiction, to one of the categories of fiction I tend to enjoy a lot more now that I’m a little older: The stuff set in the real world. Maybe it’s over ten years of being into hardboiled and film noir, but I used to absolutely be turned off by stuff like urban …
