Remember when Pokemon first came out? I do. It was 1998. I remember driving around Long Island with my mom searching for the game so I could finally dust off my old gameboy that looked like some kind of ancient black brick at that point. After dusting off four AA batteries I was able...
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When I first saw the trailer for Whiplash, I didn’t know what the hell to make of it. It appeared to be a typical music school drama, one of those cloying movies like Music of the Heart or Mr. Holland’s Opus where some wide eyed idiot with a passion for music gets inspired by...
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It’s been a good year for TV. Breaking Bad is gone but there were more than a few shows willing to fill the gap. And now it’s time to talk about them. I worked long and hard and crunched a lot of numbers to come up with my top ten list even though my number...
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First of all, to address your gaping jaw and look of utter bewilderment, that image above is not fake. Paramount Pictures has indeed made a push for the Academy to nominate Transformers: Age of Extinction for Best Picture. They want Michael Bay to get a Best Director nomination and for the flick to get a whole...
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Foxcatcher has Oscar written all over it. It’s chock full of things the Academy loves: a comedic actor making a dark dramatic turn, a pretty boy actor demanding to be taken seriously, a prestigious director who only makes Oscar bait, a script based off a lurid true story, a long running time, and themes focused on...
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Sometimes I wish I had been alive when The Twilight Zone was first airing on TV. Sure, many people my age spent more than a few holiday weekends marathoning episodes of Rod Serling’s groundbreaking program but can you imagine what it actually would have been like to have that show as a weekly event? To not...
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I’ve been referred to by more than a few of my friends as a ‘King apologist’. I’m the guy who defends his weaker stories, the guy who insists that Under the Dome had no narrative problems, that Rose Madder makes perfect sense, that Doctor Sleep was a perfect sequel to The Shining, and that UR, his novella about a haunted kindle, was...
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For those of you getting sick and tired of my unending love letter to everything Nintendo, let’s celebrate the PlayStation today. The PlayStation is now old enough to vote, buy cigarettes, though it still can’t buy itself that well-deserved drink. So I’ll raise a glass of Jolt Cola to celebrate twenty great years of...
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It’s much easier to explain what makes a movie bad than what makes a movie good. This is common knowledge. Any idiot can say that Transformers 4 is an ‘overlong, clunky, piece of shit’ or that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a ‘cynical cash grab’ and back it up with evidence. It’s much more difficult to say...
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It’s been a depressing couple of weeks. Everything going on in Ferguson is a nightmare that I can’t even begin to wrap my brain around and we’ve learned that Bill Cosby is a despicably evil monster (for a much more in depth take on that whole disgusting mess, check out Noah’s brilliant piece). But...
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