*NOTE: The middle section of this article will contain spoilers, and I'll delineate where they start and end!* Is there any Halloween movie more divisive than the 2018 outing that reset the franchise to another timeline--its FIFTH if you count the Rob Zombie and Halloween 3 portions of the multiverse!--and started a new Michael Myers... Continue Reading →
Guys, my house is a wreck. We have started decorating for Halloween and getting everything spookified, but the interior of the house constantly looks like a bomb went off. We are not an organized people. This isn't even related to the decorations; it's just the constant state of our home! We always have these designs... Continue Reading →
https://photos.smugmug.com/Disney/i-sZHWzL2/0/cbccdade/M/OliverCompany-M.jpg OLIVER AND COMPANY (1988): Written by: Charles Dickens (original story), Vance Gerry, Roger Allers, Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise, Dave Michener, Pete Young & Mike Gabriel This one is odd, comparing it to the rest of the Disney Animated franchise. I mean, "Take a famous story and make them animals" has been done, and "people in... Continue Reading →
I feel like this will be a very short discussion this portion of the month, as I could probably just plug in "I played Fallout 4, like, A LOT" and be done with it. Why did I not play more of that game way back when I bought it? MOVIES After a movie-heavy start to... Continue Reading →
Last month, I lamented that I had only seen ten movies in the span of an entire month. I went on a September TEAR to make up for that! So let's get straight into the first half of September's recommendations. MOVIES Seventeen days, twelve movies. That's more like it. I kind of blew up in... Continue Reading →
THE LITTLE MERMAID (1989): Written by: Hans Christian Andersen (original story), Roger Allers, Howard Ashman, Ron Clements & John Musker And now we come to the TRUE game-changer at the studio- the movie that started The Disney Renaissance, and helped define a decade. Coming out in the late 1980s after a series of "scratchy outline" movies... Continue Reading →
Here's the thing. I usually break down my movie reviews into three sections: Non-Spoiler intro / Spoiler story section / Non-spoiler wrap-up. There is virtually no way possible I can talk about this movie without at least mild spoilers. I just wouldn't have very much to say! So here's your advance warning: This ENTIRE ARTICLE... Continue Reading →
I was improperly raised on horror movies as a child, as I have detailed before. In addition to the semi-regular Jason-based nightmares that are just ingrained in my DNA at this point, it has given me a lifelong love of the genre. Horror cinema just combines some of the best parts of every other field of... Continue Reading →
The Bad Welcome back to our two part Agents of SHIELD retrospective. If you missed part 1 (and why would you read the second part before the first), I went over some of the things I loved about the series. As you probably figured out, I’ll be talking about the worst aspects of the series... Continue Reading →
Okay. Okay, okay. I am more calm than I was when I wrote that review *checks clock* 15 minutes ago. Let's look at this more rationally and critically. Guys, this movie is truly amazing. Just... I'm still floored. I want to turn around and go watch it again. Okay, it turns out I am really... Continue Reading →
https://photos.smugmug.com/Disney/i-Ssg7Fpq/0/db12e6ca/XL/7c9535e9a463743b5c1c7626ebd67cd4-d5kliuj-XL.jpg BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1991): Written by: Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve (original story), Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont (adaptation novel that heavily influenced this), Linda Woolverton, Brenda Chapman, Burny Mattinson, Brian Pimental, Joe Ranft, Kelly Asbury, Chris Sanders, Kevin Harkey, Bruce Woodside, Tom Ellery, Robert Lence & Roger Allers The Disney Animated Canon features some... Continue Reading →
SAILOR MOON R- THE MOVIE:Yes, they made three movies for the Sailor Moon franchise. The animation is of course glorious compared to anything you'd see in the cartoon, with bodies having both shading AND highlights, and the frame-rate going up a bit, too, with lots of glamorous shots and better posing than the "straight-on" stuff from a... Continue Reading →
What timing! I saw Free Guy the same day as the Thor: Ragnarok episode of my podcast was released! It's TaikaMania running wild, brother! Every so often I fall harmlessly but accidentally into kismet. For just the fourth time since COVID started (wait... fourth? Let me check. The Conjuring, this, Black Widow, A Quiet Place... Continue Reading →
I'm not crazy, okay? Just... don't forget that as we go on here. I mean, I'm nuts for Jason Movies, but that's allowable, right? They are good-to-great movies! Well... okay-to-great. All right, they are sucky-to-great. I know, I know. Jason Goes To Hell still exists. More on that one later, though, because it's about to... Continue Reading →
This one's going to be quick, so bear with me. I'm SUPPOSED to be packing for Cancun right now. By the time you read this, I'll at least be in the air. It's hard to believe SWO Productions is already coming up on ten months' of existence! Ten months so far of articles and podcasts... Continue Reading →
