Month: June 2022
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Blast of Cannon: Part 1
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Read more: Blast of Cannon: Part 1You’ve probably heard of MGM and United Artists, but what about the very lovely Cannon Films? It was a studio that took on the Hollywood big boys in the 1980s. For a glorious, plate-spinning few years it became the world’s largest independent movie production company, cranking out up to six low-budget pictures a month. How…
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Fucked-Up Films #6: Romper Stomper (1992)
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Read more: Fucked-Up Films #6: Romper Stomper (1992)Film Title Romper Stomper Synopsis Heil Crowe! Director Geoffrey Wright Cast Russell Crowe Daniel Pollock Jacqueline McKenzie Alex Scott What are these sick bastards doing? Worshipping the Third Reich, threatening to chop people’s legs off with an ax, mourning decapitated mothers, and terrorizing the Vietnamese in a Melbournian suburb. Is the villain any good? The…
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Starring debuts #18: Mark Hamill & Harrison Ford in Star Wars (1977)
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Read more: Starring debuts #18: Mark Hamill & Harrison Ford in Star Wars (1977)Star Wars remains the dog’s bollocks, a bona fide pop culture phenomenon, and an astonishing exercise in world-building with its fucking cool light sabers, eye-melting hyperspace travel, hokey Jedi mind tricks, planet annihilation, and lovable stormtroopers, none of whom are capable of hitting a cow’s ass with a banjo. Only a retard can fail to…
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Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
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Read more: Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (1985)Tagline: Two men enter, one man leaves, unless there are special needs. Entire Story in Fewer Words Than Are in This Sentence: Max is banished for refusing to kill a grinning retard. Homoeroticism: Like in The Road Warrior, many men are dressed like they are going to a gay bondage convention, but the homoeroticism is…
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The Shawshank Redemption
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Read more: The Shawshank RedemptionFor a movie that featured busting a load in another man’s mouth as repeated punishment for (and get a load of this) resisting the idea of taking the load to begin with, The Shawshank Redemption struck me as surprisingly tame during its first hour. Though never shown, this was twice insinuated to the victimized protagonist…
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Banking on Creativity: How to Monetize Your Talents From Home
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Read more: Banking on Creativity: How to Monetize Your Talents From HomeEveryone could use more money, but not everyone is an artist or entertainer. If you have creative abilities, try turning your skills into cash online. With the right approach, you may soon be earning a living from what was once just a hobby. Music You no longer need to sign a record deal to make…
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Where to Get Help with Programming Assignment
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Read more: Where to Get Help with Programming AssignmentMost people nowadays have to juggle many tasks at once. Even students must work part-time or care for family members in addition to studying. These additional tasks might sometimes be overwhelming. So, every now and again, you can take a break while delegating part of your obligations to others. That is the topic of this…
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Fucked-Up Films #8: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
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Read more: Fucked-Up Films #8: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)Three movies have been based on Ed Gein, the Wisconsin wackadoodle that killed women and made tit-corsets and furniture out of their bodies. Psycho, Silence of the Lambs and the favorite of demented junior high boys: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. They went out to make a B-horror and accidentally created a monolith of human terror…
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Jaws
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Read more: JawsDUHHHHN-DUH DUHHHHN-DUH DUHN-DUH-DUHN-DUH-DUHN-DUH deeleee-dee! DUHN-DUH-DUHN DUH-DUHN Yes, I have it on good authority that’s how the famous danger theme of Jaws was written, by the same man who wrote the Star Wars score, John Williams…here’s a sample from his notebook entitled “Imperial March”: “BWAHM-BWAHM-BWAHM-teedee-BWAHM-teedee BWAHM (higher) BWAHM-BWAHM-BWAHM-diddliy-BWAHM-teedee-BWAHM (maybe a little ‘toodley-deedly’ here–ask George–too many BWAHMs?)”…
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DOOM Review (2016)
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Read more: DOOM Review (2016)DOOM Review (2016) Pictured: DOOM’s design document, in its entirety. Within the first minute of DOOM (a game which, like MORTAL KOMBAT, refers to itself in ALL CAPS, and who are we to argue?), you have freed yourself from the chains bolting you to a sarcophagus which was recovered from the depths of Hell. Then,…