Monday, October 27, 2014

Sweets and Horror: Sharing Personal Halloween Classics


Oh sweet Halloween, the purest holiday of them all. No pretense of sharing love or appreciation through excessive commerce and gluttony, no vague societal push of political agenda or environmentalism, just sweets and horror.

Monday, October 20, 2014

Powerless and Irresponsible: How “The Amazing Spider-Man” Fails the Superhero Genre Part 4 (Finale)(Spider-Man himself)


In the pursuit of the almighty dollar, Sony executives have directly involved themselves within the creative process of filmmaking and managed to succeed in turning their golden goose into a perfectly focus tested money grubbing machine so blatant in its regard for the contents of audience wallets that it has ironically repelled the very people that they have tried so desperately to attract.

Friday, October 10, 2014

Fromage Fridays #4: Tekken



From “Mortal Kombat” to “Dead or Alive” to “Street Fighter,” the unfortunate reality is that to date, the only thing that the watchable video game movies have in common is that they’re so bad, they’re spectacularly entertaining.

Monday, October 6, 2014

Powerless and Irresponsible: How “The Amazing Spider-Man” Fails the Superhero Genre Part 1


Ten years ago, the name “Spider-Man” was synonymous with trailblazing in the superhero genre. Today, it’s barely even respectable enough to bring up in the same sentence as the numerous successes in the genre that it helped to pave the way for.