Your enjoyment of Tusk depends upon three things: (1) How much you like Kevin Smith, (2) Your ability to navigate glaring shifts in tone, and (3) how high your Johnny Depp tolerance meter is able to rise. I like Smith, I can handle abrupt changes in tone as long as a movie doesn’t shift...
Horror
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God, I miss video stores. Netflix is great and all but there was something about walking down the aisles with all those worn VHS covers flowing across your field of vision as you searched for that perfect flick. You were usually looking for something different, something you’d never heard of before, something forbidden. When...
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With the summer movie season officially behind us, it is time to look ahead to the fall: a time of fallen leaves, sudden drops in temperature, WAY too many holidays and, of course, Oscar bait. I’m sure there are tons of posts all over the internet listing every big movie seeking out one of...
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There are lots of bad movies in the world. Some are entertaining because of how utterly inept they are, some because of the way they wink at the camera, some are just awful, some are disgusting, sickening, disheartening, cynical cash grabs but only one is Leprechaun Origins. It’s the worst, the underbelly of the...
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Television is going through a bit of a horror renaissance at the moment (a ‘horror-sance’ perhaps, can we make that a thing?) with shows like The Walking Dead, American Horror Story, Hannibal, Sleepy Hollow, and Penny Dreadful all having successful runs. We won’t mention Hemlock Grove and lets all just take a moment to...
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*Note: I apologize for the terrible headline. Awful puns are a weakness of mine. I’m working on the problem in a 12-step program. Searching for a good movie on Netflix is a lot like crawling into the sewer and hunting for gold: it’s a disgusting, disheartening, painfully long process that almost always leaves...
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