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THE RAID 2: A REVIEW

“The Raid 2: Berandal” does everything better than its predecessor, “The Raid Redemption”… Except for what “Raid Redemption” did best. To start, this is a very good movie. It’s more expansive, more artfully directed, more ambitious and more scripted than its predecessor. The music and mood and style is just as good as before and in many instances better. In every way Director/writer/co-editor/action choreographer and all around Welshman Gareth Evans has grown as a filmmaker, or at the very least, … →

cosmos

“The cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be.” – Carl Sagan So I’m watching COSMOS by buying each episode individually as they come out on VUDU. I like the idea of paying for this. I like the idea of supporting each and every episode. Making sure that my money goes towards it in the most direct way possible. As I went to watch the second episode last night I noticed something irritating in the shows description … →

The Year in Comics – 2013

    By Paul Pope, Published by First Second Heroic monster fighting perfection from one of comics most deserving rock stars. Feels like the Saturday morning cartoons of my youth, but way, way better. Grab a bowl of cereal, sit cross-legged on the floor and read the shit out of this thing. Comics, baby, comics. *** Written by Congressman John Lewis & Andrew Aydin, Art by Nate Powell, Published by Top Shelf The historic 1963 March on Washington For Jobs And Freedom … →

A Horror Movie From Every Decade since 1900…

A lot of my friends took the “31 horror movies in October” challenge. Binging on horror flicks all month sounds like total bliss to me, but with a work trip to New York at the end of October and me being behind on my scripts, there was just no way I could’ve pulled it off. Still, I wanted to make sure that I spent some of the Halloween season sitting around and ingesting loads of horror, so I decided to … →