It spent about a year reading this book. It didn’t take me so long because I didn’t like the book, or because it’s long; it’s just the kind of book that you can read for a while, put down, and come back to weeks or months later. There’s no pressing need to read it all […]
It’s a movie about Elvis-impersonating criminals. There are lots of explosions and cool one-liners in the trailer. The cast is Kurt Russel, Kevin Costner, Christian Slater, Courtney Cox, David Arquette, Kevin Pollack, and Ice T. In other words, you’d think the only thing that could fuck it up is Costner. Well, not exactly. Don’t get […]
Troy Duffy’s 1999 movie The Boondock Saints stars Sean Patrick Flanery and Norman Reedus as Connor and Murphy McManus, a pair of Irish brothers who seem to have had a particularly strict Catholic upbringing. After killing a couple of Russian mobsters in self-defense and being hailed as heroes by their fellow Bostonians, the brothers have […]
Pandora is a distant planet rich in a valuable mineral amusingly named “unobtainium.” The only problem is that the richest deposit lies directly beneath the village of a group of natives known as the Navi–ten-foot tall anorexic smurfs who are a tough enemy to beat despite their primitive ways. In order to avoid a costly […]
Anvil! The Story of Anvil is, as the name implies a documentary about Canadian thrash band Anvil. In the 1980s, Anvil played shows with lots of great hair and metal bands, but for some reason they never really got the fame that they probably deserved. Of course, that hasn’t stopped core members (the rest of […]
When my editor at Bazooka Magazine asked me to watch and review a web series, I’m not really sure what I was expecting, but those expectations were definitely a lot lower than what I got. When I first clicked the link, the still of a shirtless guy covered in blood with dark lighting didn’t exactly thrill […]
I was a teenager when I saw the first Terminator movie, so I loved it mainly for the violence and Arnold always choosing the rudest response (C., I believe) from the sunglasses display. When I saw T2, I was a little older and my tastes a bit more refined, so I got pulled into the […]
Anyone who’s ever listened to an oldies radio has probably heard the story of Stagger Lee, as performed by Lloyd Price. In the song, Stagger Lee loses his money and “brand new Stetson hat” in a dice game with a man named Billy. He then proceeds to kill Billy, despite the latter’s begging and pleading. […]
One of the most enduring sub-genres of horror film is the “slasher flick.” The first movie of this type to gain widespread recognition was Tobe Hooper’s 1974 classic The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, in which a traveling band of teenagers are picked off one by one by a chainsaw-wielding madman. Other killfests followed, but it was […]
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