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Killing a Story: Why Killing the Bad Guy isn’t Always the Best Choice
I love stories, be they on the screen or across the printed page. However, as I’ve gotten older, I’ve started to see one glaring issue, and that issue is how often in stories we kill the bad guy. Don’t get me wrong, some of the greatest villains of all time have had amazing and memorable deaths, and I’m not going to say
Movie BS Ep 349: ‘Kong: Skull Island’
0:00 – Hello; Jeff keeps showing movies to his kid; Eric had to steer a 10-year-old away from Kong: Skull Island 5:40 – Kong: Skull Island review 18:30 – Directors getting big movies after making very small movies 21:10 – No other new movies this weekend, but Jackie, Moana, and The Brand New Testament are out on DVD; Jeff has ideas
‘My Life as a Zucchini’ Review
Sometimes you can watch a movie and know that you’re going to cry at some point. While there are no moments that require a complete breakdown into tears, there’s no denying that there are plenty of tear-jerking moments in My Life as a Zucchini. The movie is a French/Swiss coming of age stop-motion animated film about a young boy named Zucchini. He
Highly Suspect Reviews – Kong: Skull Island
Stupid people, hubris against nature, hot lady, giant ape…you get the picture. Only this time it’s 1974 and we’re not trying to do a remake of the original again. I mean, yeah, there’s a lot of similar stuff, but the upshot is, it’s all on the island and JEBUS is it crawling with nasties. Somehow, Sam Jackson, Tom Hiddleston, Brie
Digital Noise Episode 150: Double Triple Bill and Two-Thirds
It’s March madness with Marco and Richard as they stumble through the latest pile of DVD and Blu-ray releases. Expect lots of pre-teen misery, terrible role models, arguments about the best low-singer, weird auteurs, and a rather special top hat.
Somebody Likes It – Ep 98: Allison Crutchfield – “Tourist In This Town”
Once you get past the intrigue of her backstory (PS Eliot drummer with her now Waxahatchee-fronting sister Katie, collaborator with her ex in the apostrophe sporting band Swearin’), Allison Crutchfield — freshly minted solo artist — weaves a tangled-by-way-of-intriguing tale on her first full length LP, Tourist In This Town. She may be angsty, but she isn’t without something relevant
