A found footage monster movie that had a big budget when some of the more notable found footage flicks are filmed on a low budget, Cloverfield is a 2008 film that takes the familiar premise of a monster attacking a city (a la Godzilla) and tells it from the point of view of a group …
Personal Archaeology 4: The People Who Barely Knew You Probably Knew You Best
My wife and I were talking on a recent episode of my podcast about who we were when we graduated high school and went away to college. One of the things that came up was the idea that when you leave a place that has been your home for a very long time and head …
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The Spectacular Now
I will fully admit that when I saw this on the DVD queue (and also saw that it was available for streaming), I was puzzled because I don't know what prompted me to put it there. I mean, I remember putting it there and maybe it was because someone recommended it to me or I …
Logan’s Run
In the 23rd Century, having survived a laundry list of apocalyptic scenarios, humanity lives in a huge domed city and the population is governed and controlled by a computer that has decreed that nobody can live past the age of thirty. When their time is up, they participate in a ceremony called "carrousel" in which …
The Signal
A 2014 low-budget sci-fi film where three teenagers detour on their way across the country to follow the path of a hacker named "Nomad" who appears to have been trolling them for quite some time. Had they stayed on their path, Nic (Brenton Thwaites) and Jonah (Beau Knapp) would have dropped Nic's girlfriend Haley (Olivia …
Fighting the Independents, 7/14/19-7/17/19
I'm throwing all of these away, so the answer to the running question, Keep, Sell, Donate, or Trash?, is trash. That's not to say that all of these are bad reads--in fact, some of them are fairly interesting--but none of them were worth holding on to the individual comics. I will say, though, that I …
Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist
So I should have liked this a lot more than I did. It is a romantic teen comedy with a soundtrack that a lot of people seemed to like. I missed it when it first came out in 2008 because I was 31 and had a one-year-old son at home, which meant that I was …
The Wackness
A 2008 comedy that I've had on my Netflix DVD queue probably since about 2010 (that's how long I've been sitting on a number of these movies), this is coming-of-age dramedy about a guy named Luke (Josh Peck) who is a drug dealer in New York City in 1994 and spends the summer after graduating …
Twenty-One Issues of Marvel Age in One Review
If there's anything that is indicative of this accumulation disease that I have, it's the fact that at one point, I needed to seek out a few issues of Marvel Age for use in both "In Country" and my 2017-2018 podcast miniseries "Origin Story" and that eventually led to me just grabbing an issue of the …
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Fighting the Independents, 6/13/19-7/13/19
Vacation and a break from comics reading to read books and watch movies has slowed my progress through the box of independent comic books that I'm looking to pare down, but I do have six books that I can give quick verdicts on. A number of these were books that I actually never paid for …
The Uncollecting 