"Rapidly matriculating" - so they're enrolling in colleges at a fast pace? I'm not sure what that has to do with music or the super bowl

Murder Party is on Shudder, which I highly recommend if you like horror movies.

Fuck yeah Doug Gillard! Mag Earwhig is painfully underrated.

Interesting. I'm currently looking at the list of all 6,000 or so things that were utterly, miserably bad about this misbegotten abomination of a movie, and "not enough Jared Leto" definitely isn't on this list

Non-whites ARE decent, I agree!

That's a bummer. I think Christopher Smith is seriously underrated as a genre director (Creep, Severance, Triangle, and Black Death are all quite good) so I'll watch anything he does, but it sounds like perhaps he should stick to horror movies.

I bought Zaireeka when it came out and the gimmick was actually pretty fun - I was in college at the time and a dorm was the perfect setting. We got multiple people to put the CDs on, so you could walk up & down the hall to hear different parts of the album. Also it was the 90s in small-town Ohio so we were starved…

I would be okay with that!

I guess it comes down to taste - I'm willing to give a lot more leeway to small, low-budget movies that are misguided than big, tentpole movies that are aggressively stupid. AVP: Requiem is certainly not a good movie, but its main problem is just that it's boring and silly. It's inoffensive. On the other hand, Promethe…

That is a pretty good trailer! However, Prometheus also had a pretty good trailer, and it turned out to be about half as good as AVP: Requiem. On the other hand, hack extraordinare Damon Lindelof didn't write this one, so… signs point to okay?

It's inexplicable to me that Snyder has made so many movies without making a good one. The law of averages says that if you make enough movies one of them should be good, even if it's by accident. This theory is borne out by Michael Bay and Uwe Boll, who have each made decent movies, however inadvertently (I liked 13…

This album is exceptional, but I've always been disappointed that TTA made a hard turn to easy-listening synthpop after this album. I really tried to get into their later albums because I loved this one so much, but they're all Owl City by way of Rephlex records, which is not a good combination.

KITANO!!!!!!
I will see anything that Beat Takeshi is in.

I think you're off by at least 100 years - young people in 1966 were a lot more familiar with the hits of the 18th and 19th centuries (Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, etc) and definitely more familiar with the hits of 1916-ish (Debussy, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, etc) than audiences are today. The biggest hit of 1913 was The…

I really disliked The Blackcoat's Daughter/February - Perkins shows solid filmmaking chops in that movie but the plot veers from nonexistent to idiotic across its running time, with a twist ending that utterly wrecks the whole thing. Still, I'll give this a shot, since it'll be on Netflix and I can always watch more…

There's so much I could say about those movies - two of my favorite films of all time - but I'll point it just one brilliant sound design trick that he does in both Cure and Pulse that I don't think I've seen anyone else do. It's unbelievably creepy every time, for reasons I can't really explain: he'll cut from a wide…

House of 1000 Corpses is (in my possibly biased opinion) the only decent movie he's made. It seems like he blew all of his good ideas on that one but kept making movies anyhow. Lords of Salem, while not a good movie, was at least just boring rather than boring and irritatingly stupid like the rest of his films. I…

The cinematography is garbage: poor lighting + zoomed-in shakycam = bad results. I suspect he was trying to hide the cheapness of the sets.

A "D" grade is generous for this movie. It's absolutely incoherent from beginning to end and repetitious to boot: it alternates between dimly-lit scenes of Hot Topic rejects attacking people and dimly-lit scenes of the protagonists yelling at each other for no clear reason. I'm pretty sure the screenplay is just…

This is legitimately delightful. I love it when science nerds take full advantage of the opportunity to be geeky about pop culture. Also, it was good to learn that "electric current actually powers Christmas lights, not monsters or other lifeforms."