The Purge Review

The year is 2022 and America is run by a group known as the New Founding Fathers (How can you found something that's already been founded? Did they just re-market America as New America? I guess they're luckier than Pepsi.) and they have started a national pastime called "purging." Once a year, for 12 hours, everything is legal. You can do whatever you want and no police or ambulances will be on duty. Think about how many stories that premise could tell; hackers bringing down corrupt organizations, banks losing all their money, children burning down schools, and just utter chaos everywhere. Sadly, when I asked my mother for further examples she said "I'd get a better job." In The Purge though, everyone just resorts to killing. That's it. But why do this at all? Read on to find out!

Iron Man III Review

I know this is a bit late but what the hell? I've had this film fester in my mind for a while now and can say without a doubt in my mind that I loved it. It is one of the best finales to a trilogy I've seen that belongs up there with Last Crusade and Back to the Future Part III. It's also the first movie I've seen that's technically the sequel to two movies; Iron Man II and The Avengers. Sadly, Iron Man II had the unfortunate duty of mainly being a preview for The Avengers and failed as a movie itself. Without having anything to hold it back Iron Man III shines as it focuses on Tony Stark in a post-Avengers world. I wonder how he'll handle it.

Star Trek 2 Review

Introduction: I don't really see this new Star Trek series as Star Trek. I see it more as a demo reel JJ Abrams prepared for Disney alongside Super 8, so he can show off how much he loves the movie brats and how awesome he would be as a director for Star Wars. And you know what? He totally would! The effects are really good, the action scenes are interesting, the make up for aliens isn't f*cking CG, and Kirk even says "Punch it." That's Han Solo's line! Coincidentally, those are the only things that are good in Star Trek Into Darkness because this movie can go straight to Vulcan (and in case you didn't see the first Star Trek, Vulvan was turned into a black hole for some reason).

Revolving: Random Access Memories

Introduction: I remember the first time I listened to Daft Punk; I was watching Toonami and enjoying my religious viewing of Tenchi Muyo (or whatever anime was on) when during their commercial break a music video came on with an awesome animation of aliens being disguised as humans. It took many years before I found out that was Daft Punk's Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger. I was in love and now Discovery is one of my favorite album's of all time. Human After All was released later on and while it was a good album it missed that child-like optimism and sheer fun Discovery exuded. Alive 2007 was next up and really elevated their library into one whole as a live album masterpiece. Lastly, Tron: Legacy had it's soundtrack done by the duo and their use of orchestration brought an extra layer of emotion to their soulful music. Now we have Random Access Memories, an album that looks back at fond memories in order to create new ones.

Evil Dead Review

Introduction: The Evil Dead series is one of my personal favorite trilogies of all time. Not only does the protagonist have an arc from normal to lunatic to absolute bad-ass but so does the tone itself as it shifts from horror to comedy. That's amazing. When I heard they were remaking the original film I was both excited and apprehensive. Or is it a reboot? On Wikipedia it's listed as a reboot and f*ck you Wikipedia can be a reliable source. But it has so many similarities to the original. What the f*ck is this?