Day 8 of Calloween Movie Month Content warnings: blood, domestic abuse, child death, unreality, alcohol abuse, cheating, racism Recommended?: Yes Spoilers and discussion of mentioned topics below. You have been warned. Don't drink ghost booze kids, it'll fuck with your brain. » Continue Reading
Day 7 of Calloween Movie Month Recommended?: Yes Content warnings: blood and gore, kidnapping, torture, talk of irl death, vomit, suicide, dubious consent, vehicular accidents, elderly death Spoilers and discussion of many of these topics below. You have been warned. The greatest horror of all: having a bad taste in men. » Continue Reading
Day 6 of Calloween Movie Month Content warnings: shaky cam, blood, fatphobic language Recommended?: Yes Spoilers and discussion of many of the mentioned topics below. You have been warned. The scariest thing about this movie is imagining the smell of three film students sharing a tent. » Continue Reading
Day 5 of Calloween Movie Month Content warnings: mild blood/gore, attempted animal death, teacher-student relationships, cheating, suffocation/strangling, hanging, suicide, eye trauma, large age gaps, elderly death, ableism/ableist language, mention of sexual assault Recommended?: No Spoilers and discussions of many of the above topics await you. You have been warned. Mi » Continue Reading
Day 4 of Calloween Movie Month Recommended?: Yes. Content warnings: mild blood/gore, child abuse, gaslighting, electrocution, forced institutionalization, ableism, classism, demonization of voodoo/voudou/vodun Spoilers and discussion of many of these topics below. You have been warned. I've never been to Chicago, but I can only imagine this is what » Continue Reading
Day 3 of Calloween Movie Month Recommended?: Yes. Content warnings: misogyny, fatphobia. medical/surgical imagery, eye trauma, sexual content, sexual assault, self-harm, drug abuse Spoilers and discussion of any and all these topics below, you have been warned. You know that lyric in Mitski's best song Brand New City where she says "If I gave up on being pretty I wo » Continue Reading
Day 2 of Calloween Movie Month Recommended?: No. Content warnings: Self-harm, fairly minor blood and gore, unreality, cancer Spoilers abound and discussion of any and all previously warned about content below this point. Snow Falls? More like SNOW BALLS cause this movie sucks dick. » Continue Reading
Day 1 of Calloween Movie Month Recommended?: Yes. Content warnings: suicide and self harm, sex and sex work, violence against women (sexual and otherwise), stalking, misogyny, unreality. Everything below this will contain both movie spoilers and free discussion of all topics above. You've been warned. You know how people joke about Americans pronouncing horror movie » Continue Reading
I watched The Mario movie on a camrip shortly after it came out. When I watched the movie, I thought it was a pretty adequate kid's movie with some fun references for big fans of the franchise. Despite my generally positive opinion on it, I came away with this niggling feeling of irritation. Like something was off, something I couldn't place or fully articulate. Fast forward to August. The movie c... » Continue Reading
To preface this blog entry I am forced to admit that I was one of the sorry suckers who went panic mode buying games as the inevitable curtain call of the 3DS and WiiU eShops, This is what I like to call feeding the beast. This is exactly what Nintendo wanted me and the other millions of people who love their games to do. Artificial scarcity is something I detest, as I feel it's both a manipulativ... » Continue Reading