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'Ooga Booga' Delivers B-Movie Horror at its Best [Movie Review]
There is a sub-genre of horror movie that seem designed to be "so bad, it’s funny." Ooga Booga fits perfectly into this B-movie category with its one dimensional characters, ridiculous plot points, and over the top death scenes. Charles Band, the movie’s director, has created a movie seemingly designed to offend regular people while pleasing hardcore fans of cheesy horror.
Bates Motel - The Truth [TV Review]
The Truth is a real big turning point for Bates Motel, making it a proper climactic moment. In the complete chaos of things, it appears that everything is changing around the main characters. When it seems that something is about to come to an end, another thing appears to disturb the peace that the Bates Family can no longer achieve.
Pawn [Movie Review]
Pawn, on the surface, looks like any other action movie. The first ten minutes are a great way to start out the movie and to get the audience hooked. After that, however, the movie takes a drastic left turn, changing the game for the audience. It may look like a standard action movie on the surface, but if one is willing to dig deeper, there is some golden bits to be mined from Pawn.
Night Wolf (13 Hrs) [Movie Review]
Night Wolf is a slow-paced and ultimately lackluster British werewolf film. The characters are mostly fairly likeable, some not so much, but not enough to be annoying or detract from the story. I was mildly interested in seeing where the film would go, but it’s very predictable and mundane from beginning to end. Night Wolf isn’t the most creative film, but it’s not that it’s all that bad either, it’s just not engaging enough.
Zombieland: The Series [TV Review]
Upon seeing the trailer for the upcoming Amazon Video TV adaptation of Zombieland, my expectations immediately lowered. It looked like a lesser, more generic looking version of the movie, focusing more on cheap laughs than the smart comedy and atmospheric horror we got from the film. Having low expectations probably was for the best, but I was luckily pleasantly surprised to a degree. From the pilot episode, the film seems to be the better version, but the show might have more potential than I originally thought it would.
Slugterra Volume 1: Return of the Shane Gang [DVD Review]
It seems that animation is taking huge leaps of change here in the west over the past decade. Movies such as Rise of the Guardians and Wreck-it Ralph are entertaining and have a good sense of maturity about them; and television shows like Avatar have a complexity to them. Animation no longer is seen as something to quiet kids for a while, but as another storytelling tool. Thankfully, Slugterra seems to be following in that pattern.
The Following - Havenport [TV Review]
It seems that The Following really wants to end this first season with a huge bang with these final three episodes. It seems as if they know there is no slowing down at this point and are ready to deliver what their fans want to see. By far, Havenport is the most suspenseful and exciting episode. There are new twists coming left and right, each one trying to top the other.
Bates Motel - Ocean View [TV Review]
Bates Motel has come to a point where it is not only a good prequel to the Psycho franchise, but also a great stand-alone series for what it is. It doesn’t play heavily on the tropes that usually comes with shows like this and instead tells the story that it wants to tell. There are nods placed here and there that hint at the darker nature of this story, but there will be a time and place for it.
Parliament Funkadelic at the Ace of Spades [Concert Review]
A disclaimer to anyone unfamiliar with the majesty that is Parliament Funkadelic: if you have yet to join the Army of Uncle Jam, a lot of what I am about to say might come across as me being a raving lunatic. I assure you it is not, and it is simply due to how amazing of a band they are.
Hannibal Pilot [TV Review]
Hannibal marks another horror prequel series of a very iconic and chilling film franchise and more importantly the man and enigma behind them both, Hannibal Lecter. The series ventures into a relationship Doctor Hannibal Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen) has with FBI special agent, Will Graham (Hugh Dancy). The premise mostly rests in Hannibal’s cold and brutal habits while psychoanalyzing Will upon special request of Agent Jack Crawford (Laurence Fishburne) due to Will’s complete empathy and often terrifying mental capacity to understand the serial killers they are hunting.
