Whether it is in a word or in a look you can't get rid of THE BABADOOK

Once in a blue Moon comes a movie that’s not only shatters genre conventions, also causes you to rethink the entire genre.  Last year one such movie was released, however, as it was a foreign film did not receive the due attention it deserved: The Babadook.

Genre of Hidden Gems Pt.4 Well Done, but Underrated.

Now to finish off my overdue theme week I’d like to talk about what I think is the absolute best video game based movie. It’s not the best representation of the game’s lore, or characters, but it absolutely nails the look and feel of the games while delivering a compelling enough story. This movie is the criminally underrated Silent Hill.

The Genre of Hidden Gems Pt. 3 The Ultimate Guilty Pleasure

This post and the next one were intended to be written for the last two weeks in March, but I got lazy and never wrote them, so here I am now playing catch up for the past two weeks the next post (which is also the last of my video game movie set) will probably be posted later tonight or tomorrow. Enjoy your double post week.

Genre of Hidden Gems Pt. 2 Missed Opportunities

The movie for this week I picked, not because I think it is good, but because I care deeply about the videogame franchise that it’s a part of. As far back as I remember I have played PC videogames, and, as I was born in the 90’s, they were DOS games (look it up all you less than 20 somethings); the earliest I can remember are mostly edutainment games, and are generally not very interesting. The earliest DOS games that I remember, that weren’t trying to teach me how to read, think or do math are: Lemmings, and Wing Commander.

Genre of Hidden Gems Pt. 1 Underrated Adventures

Today marks the beginning of my first and probably not last Theme Month. Just to shake things up around here and keep me interested I’m going to spend an entire month on a misunderstood subset of movies. Before we begin I want to make it clear that I am 100% serious with this I really do like these movies, but I totally understand most of the hate for them, so here we go.

Disney's Live-Action Winnie The Pooh & F*ck You Too

I agree with this.

The Fun of Watching A Jerk's Life Fall Apart

Valentine’s day is a day to celebrate love, but I don’t feel much like celebrating. I personally have never been in a romantic relationship and this doesn’t seem likely to change in the near future. So instead of talking about some cheesy rom com, or melodramatic romance drama I’m going to talk about the exact opposite:

Poltergeist is Funny No Really I'm Serious

I am on a personal vendetta regarding a specific 1980’s horror movie, and I wasn’t going to discuss it this week but of course a recent trailer release for a certain reboot forced my hand. So let’s talk about Poltergeist.

The Exorcist and Catholocism

Before I start i’d like to mention this was initially written as and extra credit assignment for one of my classes, but it has been significantly shortened and rewritten to be far more informal. just thought y’all ought to know.

It’s no secret that the movie The Exorcist is steeped in catholic symbolism. It’s a movie about a young girl, Regan, who gets possessed by a demon, and a priest, Damien, who tries to exorcise the demon. However I never really watched the movie myself in that context so I watched it again and kept notes on the obvious catholic symbolism. Here’s the most interesting stuff I found:

A Different Kind of Movie

This week I wanted to do something a little different on this blog, mostly in preparation for my first theme month…but ill clue you all in on that when we get there. Today I want to talk about interactive cinema.

Why I Hate The Hobbit

So what I want to discuss this week is the ending of a worldwide cinematic phenomenon: The Lord of the Rings. As I’m sure just about everyone who hasn’t been living under the biggest of boulders is aware, just last year the last of The Hobbit trilogy was released, but I have not gotten around to actually watching the last movie until the week before last so I have refrained from talking about this franchise in a written capacity until now.