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I never gave up hope. Not for a single moment.
When Duke Nukem Forever comes out in what is slated so far to be “sometime in 2011,” I reckon that will have been a staggering 14 years between announcement and delivery. I distinctly remember one exciting afternoon when my friend ran up to me breathless in [...]
Machete
For all intents and purposes, Machete shouldn’t exist. It was first conceived as a phony trailer alongside inventions like Hobo with a Shotgun and Werewolf Women of the SS to segue Planet Terror into Death Proof in 2007’s Grindhouse, a throwback to trashy exploitative B movies from the 60s and 70s. Three years later and [...]
Blaxploitation films have always been rather interesting to me, namely because they take some of the more abhorrent aspects of stereotyped black culture (such as h0w they’re all drug dealers and pimps) and blend it with some of the more… how should I say this? Not necessarily “admirable” aspects, but definitely some of the more amusing and [...]
Film pundits like to remark how Hollywood only ever cares about the summer, namely that lovely May to July block (with August reserved as the dumping ground for the dregs), where every film worth half a damn to the average chap will be released. The autumn months play host to the more sophisticated fare, and [...]
“Gamer” is just one word that shouldn’t be used
“The point I’m trying to reach is that playing games, as entertaining and fascinating and beneficial as it might be, is just something people do, not something they should be defined by. People don’t call themselves moviegoers, or TV watchers, or book readers. That’s the job of [...]
