Feelin’ lazy? Getting a nip in the air, so it’s time to settle in and veg out on the YouTubes? ME TOO. So gear up with this great video from one of my all-time favorite YouTubers, Overly Sarcastic Productions. (It’s like they’ve geared their channel to me…)
We’ll dig back into movies tomorrow, but today? Let’s learn something about the author that gave us a fear of all things with tentacles. Except you, little cuttlefish. You’re adorable. Who’s a widdle cutie? YOU ARE.
🎶”… if I could only tell you what’s in my heart, but it would be so wrong…” 🎶
Story: Kids. I don’t know what’s wrong with these kids today! But unlike Bye Bye Birdie, the adults in this film don’t complain. They kill. Blame a strange static on the TV for turning parents fillicidal …or maybe it’s just pent up rage at the changes time hath wrought?
Scares: Chills as things start, but then it’s full Nick Cage Crazy.
Splat factor: Mostly offscreen kills with only bloody messes as the aftermath. Continue reading
Eddie Murphy is back! And this 70s biopic looks like a whole lot of fun. Synopsis!
Stung by a string of showbiz failures, floundering comedian Rudy Ray Moore (Academy Award nominee Eddie Murphy) has an epiphany that turns him into a word-of-mouth sensation: step onstage as someone else. Borrowing from the street mythology of 1970s Los Angeles, Moore assumes the persona of Dolemite, a pimp with a cane and an arsenal of obscene fables. However, his ambitions exceed selling bootleg records deemed too racy for mainstream radio stations to play. Moore convinces a social justice-minded dramatist (Keegan-Michael Key) to write his alter ego a film, incorporating kung fu, car chases, and Lady Reed (Da’Vine Joy Randolph), an ex-backup singer who becomes his unexpected comedic foil. Despite clashing with his pretentious director, D’Urville Martin (Wesley Snipes), and countless production hurdles at their studio in the dilapidated Dunbar Hotel, Moore’s Dolemite becomes a runaway box office smash and a defining movie of the Blaxploitation era.
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Four SyFy movies in this set, and they’re everything you’ve come to expect from the TV channel that loves B movies. Silly dialogue, actors trying their very best, and DAT SWEET CGI.
Like Houses of HellDVD Review: House Of Hell 4 movie set, the case has a very, very powerful chemical nasty wafting off of it. Air this puppy out. As for the movies themselves, well they’re pretty stinky too. Sorry. Let’s break it down. Continue reading
“This really is a magnificent house. Really lovely things here.”
Story: Three psychotic killers (okay, two and the requisite “I don’t want to be here” member) pick the wrong house to mess with. No, not Charles Bronson’s pad. One where the dad is a scientist with very dangerous research subjects. Zombies, I’m talking about zombies.
Scares: Lots of tension that bleeds (heh) into slow burn one-by-one zombie takedowns.
Splat factor: psycho killers and the undead. Yeah. Definitely high splat. Continue reading
I don’t know about you, but I love the coming of Fall Awesomeness Season. You know, the glorious blend of Halloween, Thanksgiving, and all the crazy-cool December happenings. So when I found out that 29 Rooms was coming to DC, I got stoked. Yes, because 29 Rooms is super cool, but also because it’s coming this October. So excited!
What is it, you ask? Here’s the info from the creators:
The makers behind Refinery29 have collaborated with visionaries and brands in the fields of art, activism, style, and technology to bring you 29 experiences under one roof that tap into the conversations of today and our hopes for tomorrow. Through multi-sensory installations, performances, and workshops, we present you with a new way to connect with creativity, culture, and community.
The experiential activation will be in town Friday, October 18 – Sunday, October 27 at the historical D.C. Armory. Ready to expand your reality? Tickets are on sale now at https://tickets.29rooms.com/city/washington-d-c. Check out the slideshow below – THANK YOU Getty Images – and read on for the bios on the fabulous creators of these rooms!
“Woop!”
Story: Young Yi (Chloe Bennet) is still grieving the loss of her father, even though her mother and Nai Nai have tried to console her. Yi keeps herself constantly busy, and secretly plays her father’s violin on the rooftop late at night. But one night she finds something that’s not typically on rooftops. Something really large. Something really scared. And something that wants to go home…
Genre I’d put it in: Jaw-droppingly Gorgeous Kiddie Films Everyone Loves
Remake, Sequel, Based-On, or Original: Original, but based on the mythology of the Yeti. Continue reading
Ready for smiles? Synopsis!
Director Todd Phillips “Joker” centers around the iconic arch nemesis and is an original, standalone fictional story not seen before on the big screen. Phillips’ exploration of Arthur Fleck, who is indelibly portrayed by Joaquin Phoenix, is of a man struggling to find his way in Gotham’s fracturedsociety. A clown-for-hire by day, he aspires to be a stand-up comic at night…but finds the joke always seems to be on him. Caught in a cyclical existence between apathy and cruelty, Arthur makes one bad decision that brings about a chain reaction of escalating events in this gritty character study.
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Elsa! Anna! Sven! Kristoff! Olaf! And…what’s outside of Arendel? This trailer ups the action and thrills, promising lots of edge of your seat fun. Can’t wait for November 22nd? Me neither!
GAAAAAAH! Olivia Coleman’s Queen Elizabeth speaks! There are corgies! I am swooning!
The Crown Season 3 comes to me us November 17th.
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Atomic Fangirl 