After a long, cold winter, mostly devoid of movies I’m actually interested in seeing, we’re about a month away from the start of the summer blockbuster movie season. We’ve got a slightly less crowded docket than usual this year with superheroes, AI’s, giant monsters, giant robots, and a talking raccoon, so let’s get right down to it.
Welcome to Biz Monkie’s Midnight Movie Reviews Summer 2014 Movie Preview! Continue reading
I just checked my Netflix queue, and this copy of The Thing has been sitting on my DVD player, unwatched, since Christmas Eve, 2013.
You see, as a child, my mom and step-dad had a laissez faire attitude about TV watching. And with my friend, Premium Cable, I watched a number of movies that were inappropriate for my age. I still have nightmares from watching The Thing, Poltergeist, and Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Oh, Mommy Dearest also traumatized me. Continue reading
On Oscar day, here’s a film QOTD posed by Baby Bear: Continue reading
Let’s Play a Game
One of the things that I loved about the Sunday paper was the compilation of TV listings for the coming week, printed in a handy booklet that would live in the TV room. The best part was reading the incredibly brief synopsis of the movies. These condensed reviews were often unintentionally funny. Thankfully there were copy editors that fearlessly chopped down those synopsis until they fit into the daily grid. I salute you. Continue reading
Did you see The Lego Movie and have a lingering feeling that The Lego Movie was basically The Matrix with animated plastic blocks and more jokes? Let’s do a quick comparison of the major similarities. Spoilers follow. Continue reading
Put simply Chromecast lets you solve the problem of, “I want this thing on my device to show up on my TV.” There are a few complexities and limitations but that’s basically it, you see a thing on your phone/tablet/browser and you want to put it on your TV with one or two taps.
What makes it even more attractive is that it has a list price of $35 and can often be found for less than that. Currently running $29.99 on Amazon
News at 11! Ron Burgundy hosts an actual newscast in Bismarck, ND. Video after the jump. Continue reading
The current run of big screen adaptations of comic book characters can be traced directly back to Richard Donner’s 1978 film Superman. Since then, we’ve had five more Superman movies, seven Batman movies, a Green Lantern movie, four Spider-Man movies, two Fantastic Four movies, five X-Men movies, three Iron Man movies, a Thor movie, a Captain America movie, and a movie with Iron Man, Thor, and Captain America. This week, Thor: The Dark World, the sequel to 2011’s Thor, hits theaters, and next summer we’re getting X-Men Days of Future Past, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and Guardians of the Galaxy.
What do all of these movies have in common, besides being big budget superhero movies? The titular characters are all white men. In the case of Superman, Thor, and Captain America, they’re the whitest and manliest of white men. Continue reading
OMG WTF BBQ SQEEE!!! Continue reading
Warning: This video is seriously scary. Watch it in bed if you are a masochist and want to turn your hair prematurely white like the bully in “It.” Continue reading
