It's been just over a week since the Oscar nominations were announced, and the annual Blitz is already in progress. The timeline is extremely tight this year, with only five and a half weeks between the nominee release and the ceremony itself, which as I've previously mentioned is the shortest window since the pandemic. Normally … Continue reading Back Row Thoughts – A Compressed Blitz
So as I've mentioned more than a few times, I ponied up the dough to join Film Independent about a year ago. The membership fee was more than worth it, as it afforded me access to private screenings and discounts for a ton of indie and foreign films in the lead-up to this year's Oscar … Continue reading Back Row Thoughts – The Spirit Stragglers, Part One
Let's just state the plain and honest truth. 2020 was the shittiest year any of us have experienced. Everything closed, Donald Trump tried to lead an insurrection, and 1 out of every 1,000 Americans died from a virus that could have been mitigated - if not contained - if we had a competent government response … Continue reading The Best (and Worst) of 2020, Way After the Fact
I know, I know. More than four months and that's what I give you for a header? A lame cow pun? It's been a while since I've posted an actual review on this site, and for that I apologize. The last several months have been a strain in more ways than one, but for our … Continue reading It’s Mooooooving – First Cow
In 1992, id Software released Wolfenstein 3D, a computer game that essentially created the first-person shooter genre of modern gaming. In it, an American spy escapes from the titular castle (the game being the third in the Wolfenstein series), shooting his way through Nazi hordes, traversing secret passageways, and ultimately destroying dangerous (fictitious) German military experiments, including an … Continue reading The Closest We’ll Get to a Great Video Game Movie – Overlord
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