NFL Picks – Week 8

OK, this week is going to be purely math, no opinions. Im going to figure out who will win each matchup based on the current 64tacos power rankings. Image via via @24our7even Ravens (8) vs Buccaneers (20): RavensBroncos (29) vs Jaguars (23): JaguarsDolphins (10) vs Lions (26): DolphinsPanthers (30) vs Falcons (20): FalconsCardinals (18) vs Vikings (4): VikingsBears (19) vs Cowboys (5): CowboysRaiders (24)…

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Amityville 4: The Evil Escapes (1989)

This fourth installment of the barely popular Amityville Horror franchise was a made-for-TV movie. It centers on a demonic possessed lamp originally from the Amityville house that causes haunting shenanigans for a family that just moved in with the Golden Girls. This probably should have been a comedy. For a made-for-TV movie, it’s not too bad. It’s not too good either. How hard is…

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The Fly II (1989)

It’s damn near impossible to follow in the footsteps of Jeff Goldblum as his son, but Eric Stoltz did ok. He gives the right level of oddball stiffness to make it work. I mean, sure, you still want to punch his face (always), but he has the range to play a 5-year-old genetic abnormality genius as well as a nasty, falling apart fly monster.…

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NFL Power Rankings – Week 8

Power rankings system devised and compiled weekly by Stemshul. “Expert” analysis by paradroid. Lots of things happened this weekend, so let's do some random thoughts and observations rather than honing in on just a few teams. Philadelphia is the only remaining unbeaten team, and even those high on them before the season probably wouldn't have predicted that. I can guarantee nobody associated with 64tacos…

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Ticks (1993)

You can’t ever go wrong when the cast includes Seth Green and Clint Howard. Add in some giant mutated tick creatures gooping around and sucking blood from anything that has a pulse. This is an awful early 90s “when animals attack” creature horror flick, but I still kind of enjoyed it for its absurdity. It doesn’t quite have the horror/comedy balance of Army of…

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The Black Phone (2021)

I’m a simple man who likes simple things. Give me a good story with good characters and throw in some Ethan Hawke and I’m there. This is very close to modern horror perfection in that it’s an interesting story with realistic elements that in some ways echoes the spookier side of The Silence of the Lambs. With hints of the supernatural, it never gets…

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Day 13 – Carlsbad Caverns National Park

We left our gorgeous mountain campground on June 28, 2022 and had a truly spectacular drive. We arrived at Whites City RV Park in the early afternoon - it was a huge disappointment. While we had full hook-up and were just down the road from the National Park, the "RV Park" wasn't even a parking lot - it was more like a side alley…

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Rubber (2010)

This is the kind of surreal, avant garde stuff I love. It’s a movie about a killer tire named Robert with psychokinetic powers. He comes to life in the desert and goes on homicidal adventures, mainly because he gets pissed off when things aren’t going his way. As if that isn’t quite enough, there is a movie-in-a-movie aspect where an audience with binoculars is…

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The Night House (2020)

This is the perfect slowburn of mystery, tension, and psychological terror. On the surface, it seems like a simple grieving widow-goes-nuts story. Beth just lost her husband to suicide and is haunted by something supernatural that may or may not be her dead husband. There were several good jump scares and plenty of scenes that made my skin crawl. My skin doesn’t just crawl…

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Cry Wolf (2005)

The mid-2000s were overloaded with teen horror garbage from the aftermath of Scream's success in the late 90s. This movie is no exception, though it's kind of surreal at times. At least most of the cast can actually pass for teenagers.  The plot centers around some prep school idiots who concoct a mass email to their whole school about a made-up serial killer for…

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