Tag: Review

Movie Review: Ooga Booga

IMDB, Ooga Booga“Ooga Booga” on IMDB

Horror, 86 Minutes, 2013

I have no idea what to do with this.  It really is beyond me.  It’s like being faced with some kind of terrible puzzle that you must solve or be hit in the face with a hatchet and knowing that the only way to win is to be hit in the face with a hatchet.  It’s clearly trying to make a statement about racism but in doing so it’s being so incredibly offensive that, well… everybody ends up with a hatchet in the face.

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Movie Review: All Superheroes Must Die

IMDB, All Superheroes Must Die“All Superheroes Must Die” on IMDB

Thriller, 78 Minutes, 2011

We’re going to give this one a lot of leeway for the sheer audacity of attempting to produce a superhero flick with a budget in the dozens of dollars.  Instead of, like everybody else, producing a shitty, derivative zombie movie these guys at least tried something different.  They get credit up front for that no matter what.

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Game Review: The Last of Us Demo

The Last of Us Cover“The Last of Us” Official Website

Rated “M” for Mature; Reviewed on Playstation 3

This is a short review of the playable demo of “The Last of Us” released on June first.  Here I’ll be focusing on the environments and characters.  Visit our sister site, MoreBrains.com, for our thoughts on the game’s enemies.  I had previously discussed thoughts on the first trailer for the game in E3 Comments: “The Last of Us”.

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Movie Review: Pitch Perfect

IMDB, Pitch Perfect“Pitch Perfect” on IMDB

Comedy/Musical, 112 Minutes, 2012

My 10-year old daughter begged to watch this movie about a cappella singing.  Why not?  The movie lets us know that a cappella singing is the coolest God-damndest thing in the entire world!  If you could smoosh extreme cliff-diving, lion-taming and sex into one glistening ball of awesome you might approach how cool a cappella singing is.  For my part I immediately shoved the movie into the corner of my brain where anything I’ve ever seen about “Glee” goes to wither and die painfully.

Why did I end up liking it so much?

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Movie Review: Taken 2

IMDB, Taken 2“Taken 2” on IMDB

Thriller, 92 Minutes, 2012

The original “Taken” [IMDB] was something of an oddity among action movies.  In a genre split between biceps and explosions or massive conspiracies and lone-wolf operatives it was a simpler, smaller more intimate movie. Yes, Liam Neeson’s [IMDB] Bryan Mills commanded resources and skills out of scope for most but the story was universal: somebody took his daughter and he was going to get her back.  I enjoyed it immensely.

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