Power rankings system devised and compiled weekly by Stemshul. “Expert” analysis by paradroid. Well, well, well! Looks like, as with most things, I'm terrible at predictions. I got exactly one of the final four teams right, although I did manage to pick one of the two wildcard games. I correctly picked the Dodgers to beat the Cardinals, but in a close game 5 that…
I knew absolutely nothing about this movie going into it other than it was on Netflix. Sometimes it is good to go into a story with a blank slate, because then you can be a little more forgiving if things go off the rails. It's mostly in Italian about a group of people car pooling in an RV who get into an accident and…
Ah, yes, teen horror from the late 90s. What started with Scream in 1996 eventually devolved into a formulaic wasteland of 30-something actors pretending to be teenagers. This one is the sequel to I Know What You Did Last Summer starring Jennifer Love Hewitt. Even worse than the predictable plot was the reuse of the “Come and get me! I’m right here!” line as…
This week's Is This Song Good? podcast features a cover of Chris Isaak's Wicked Game by Giant Drag. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-lxSGOhQXs
Power rankings system devised and compiled weekly by Stemshul. “Expert” analysis by paradroid. Current view from Seattle. Week 6 brings us a significant injury! Well, every week in the NFL brings plenty of significant injuries. For example, the Lions this week announced that Pro-Bowl center Frank Ragnow would miss the rest of the season after toe surgery. This is very significant to the Lions…
When animals attack! This is a fun sub-genre of horror, where they take a type of animal and make it bigger, scarier, and more dangerous than than animal would be in real life. Jaws, Cujo, Anaconda, and Piranha are a few examples. It's often very effective as there tends to be natural fears of these animals already. Razorback is an Australian movie about a…
Im not changing much from my preseason picks. (Go Jags!) AFC East - Bills (4-1)Weve known all season that the Bills can put up serious points on just about anyone they want. The question was, can they stop a good offence? Well, after Sunday nights shutdown of the Chiefs I think we have our answer. AFC North - Ravens (4-1)Its going to be interesting…
It's like Slender Man meets Candyman without the hook and the bees. The supernatural elements are there, but the story is kind of a mess. The movie starts with 4 hikers in some remote foreign country. One of them falls into a crevice that opens to a cave with a strange statuesque alien-looking skeleton. The hiker starts acting strange like he's possessed by some…
Dario Argento's Suspiria is a classic horror movie and a must-see for anyone who likes Italian horror. I surprised myself by not having reviewed the movie yet. It should not have taken 12+ years and over 300 movies to get to this one. The story is simple: Suzy is an American dance student who travels to Germany to study at a prestigious German ballet…
